Ty - supermodel (season 4)
Ty - supermodel, Cycle 4 (Russian: "Ты - супермодель 4") was the fourth and final Cycle of the Russian reality show on the STS TV channel, a competition of non-professional aspiring models. The host was presenter Svetlana Bondarchuk, the wife of Fyodor Bondarchuk who presented the first two cycles of the series.
| Ty - supermodel | |
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| Season 4 | |
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| Country of origin | Russia |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Release | |
| Original network | STS |
| Original release | October 6 – December 22, 2007 |
| Season chronology | |
In each episode the thirteen chosen finalists, who lived in a house together in Moscow, faced different competitions in modeling, sports and entertainment with an elimination round at the end of each episode where one of them was sent home. This cycle did not have a double elimination in its entire Series. At the end of the show, 18-year-old Tatyana Krokhina from Krasnodar became the winner of the competition and won a contract worth $250,000 with Point Models, an international modelling contract with Ford Models and a brand new Chevrolet.
Episode Guide
Episode 1
Original airdate: October 6, 2007
- Bottom two: Irina Galushkina & Marta Georgieva
- Eliminated: Marta Georgieva
- Featured photographer: Vladimir Glynin
- Guest judges: Tatiana Mikhalkova, Andrey Sharov
Episode 2
- Original airdate: October 13, 2007
- Reward challenge winners: Yulya Zavyalova, Darya Sverchkova
- Bottom two: Dana Borisenko & Anya Belova
- Eliminated: Anya Belova
- Featured photographer: Dmitry Zhuravlev
- Special guests: Evgeny Vlasov, Valentin Yudashkin, Irakli Pirtskhalava
- Guest judges: Tatiana Mikhalkova, Andrey Sharov
Episode 3
Original airdate: October 20, 2007
- Reward challenge winner: Yulya Zavyalova
- Bottom two: Dana Borisenko & Aleksandra Lobanova
- Eliminated: Dana Borisenko
- Featured photographer: Dmitry Zhuravlev
- Special guest: Masha Zheleznyakova
- Guest judges: Tatiana Mikhalkova, Elena Ermolaeva
Episode 4
- Original airdate: October 27, 2007
- Bottom two: Yulya Kuchina & Irina Tokareva
- Eliminated: Irina Tokareva
- Featured photographer: Vladimir Glynin
- Special guests: Andrej Merkurev, Daria Razumikhina, Dmitriy Dobrovolskiy
- Guest judges: Aleksandar Pushnov, Tatiana Mikhalkova
Episode 5
Original airdate: November 3, 2007
- Reward challenge winner: Yulya Kuchina
- Bottom two: Anastasia Bogushevskaya & Yulya Zavyalova
- Eliminated: Anastasia Bogushevskaya
- Featured photographer: Dmitry Zhuravlev
- Special guest: Mikhail Fedoruk
- Guest judges: Yegor Druzhin, Tatiana Mikhalkova
Episode 6
Original airdate: November 10, 2007
- Reward challenge winner: Tatyana Krokhina
- Bottom two: Irina Galushkina & Yulya Zavyalova
- Eliminated: Yulya Zavyalova
- Featured photographer: Dmitry Zhuravlev
- Guest judges: Sergey Glushko, Svetlana Masterkova
Episode 7
Original airdate: November 17, 2007
- Reward challenge winner: Alya Kuptsova
- Bottom two: Tatyana Krokhina & Darya Sverchkova
- Eliminated: Darya Sverchkova
- Featured photographer: Vladimir Glynin
- Special guest: Natalia Ragozina, Marina Kuptsova
- Guest judges: Pierre Nartsiss, Julia Dalakian, Sergey Antonov
Episode 8
Original airdate: November 24, 2007
- Reward challenge winner: Lyudmila Krimer
- Bottom two: Irina Galushkina & Lyudmila Krimer
- Eliminated: Lyudmila Krimer
- Featured photographer: Dmitriy Zhuravlev
- Special guest: Andrey Noskov
- Guest judges: Sergey Antonov, Olga Slutsker
Episode 9
Original airdate: December 1, 2007
- Reward challenge winner: Aleksandra Lobanova
- Bottom two: Irina Galushkina & Alya Kuptsova
- Eliminated: Irina Galushkina
- Featured photographer: Vladimir Glynin
- Special guest: Natalia Cherkasova
- Guest judges: Vlad Topalov, Arkady Ukupnik, Elena Ermolaeva
Episode 10
Original airdate: December 8, 2007
- Reward challenge winner: Tatyana Krokhina
- Bottom two: Yulya Kuchina & Aleksandra Lobanova
- Eliminated: Aleksandra Lobanova
- Featured photographer: Vladimir Glynin
- Special guests: Valentin Yudashkin, Maria Shikareva
- Guest judges: Dmitriy Dibrov, Aleksandar Pushnov, Elena Ermolaeva
Episode 11
Original airdate: December 15, 2007
After the departure of Sasha the final 3 were taken to their individual challenges: The Go-Sees. Alya was not hesitating to open a bottle of champagne when entering the car and as she would have known she happened to win the challenge and got to see her chubby boyfriend.
At a luxurious dinner the remaining girls get told by Svetlana that they should enjoy the meal as they cannot eat that much when becoming serious working models in the business. Early next morning it was time for the weekly photo shoot where the girls were styled with diamonds and elegant wardrobe. Tatiana was able to impress Vladimir Glynin the most. As an individual reward for her back, Yulya K. received a massage as she was having troubles with it through the competition.
At the judging panel the girls had to perform an advertising for an energy drink on roller blades where all three of them struggled much to the pleasure of the panel. As she delivered the best photo of the week Tatiana made the final round as first. It then was announced that the other two girls also made it to the final week and everyone remained in the competition.
- Reward challenge winner: Alya Kuptsova
- Bottom two: Yulya Kuchina & Alya Kuptsova
- Eliminated: No contestant was eliminated
- Featured photographer: Vladimir Glynin
- Guest judges: Anton Makarskiy, Olga Slutsker, Tatiana Mikhalkov
Episode 12
Original airdate: December 22, 2007
The challenge marathon for the final week kicked off with a funky photoshoot on which the remaining three where styled in evening dresses. They were then deported to St. Petersburg for the final runway show by Valentin Yudashkin for which Yulya K. is given extensions.
Back in Moscow the three finalists faced the judging panel for the very last time. The jury considered the final photoshoot and their walks on the runway. However their entire performances during the competition were also evaluated and made Tatyana Krokhina the winner, whom according to the judges made the biggest progress during the show.
- Final three: Alya Kuptsova, Tatyana Krokhina & Yulya Kuchina
- Ty - Supermodel: Tatyana Krokhina
- Featured photographer: Vladimir Glynin
- Special guests: Valentin Yudashkin, Lubov Grechishnikova, Andrey Sharov
- Guest judges: Konstantin Samarin, Elena Ermolaeva, Tatiana Mikhalkova, Sergey Zverev, Vladimir Glynin
Contestants
(ages stated are at start of contest)
| Contestant[1] | Age | Hometown | Finish | Place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Marta Georgieva | 18 | Moscow | Episode 1 | 13 |
| Anya Belova | 19 | Moscow | Episode 2 | 12 |
| Dana Borisenko | 16 | Krasnodar | Episode 3 | 11 |
| Ira Tokareva | 23 | Magnitogorsk | Episode 4 | 10 |
| Anastasia Bogushevskaya | 17 | Togliatti | Episode 5 | 9 |
| Yulya Zavyalova | 19 | Volgograd | Episode 6 | 8 |
| Darya Sverchkova | 22 | Ivanovo | Episode 7 | 7 |
| Lyudmila Krimer | 20 | St. Petersburg | Episode 8 | 6 |
| Irina Galushkina | 22 | Volgograd | Episode 9 | 5 |
| Aleksandra Lobanova | 21 | Moscow | Episode 10 | 4 |
| Yulya Kuchina | 21 | St. Petersburg | Episode 12 | 3–2 |
| Alya Kuptsova | 23 | Moscow | ||
| Tatyana Krokhina | 18 | Krasnodar | 1 |
Summaries
Call-out order
| Order | Episodes | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |
| 1 | Tatyana | Tatyana | Irina | Lyudmila | Tatyana | Tatyana | Irina | Yulya K. | Alya | Tatyana | Tatyana | Tatyana |
| 2 | Lyudmila | Anastasia | Yulya Z. | Alya | Lyudmila | Darya | Alya | Alya | Tatyana | Alya | Alya Yulya K. | Alya Yulya K. |
| 3 | Yulya K. | Darya | Lyudmila | Irina | Aleksandra | Yulya K. | Aleksandra | Tatyana | Yulya K. | Yulya K. | ||
| 4 | Aleksandra | Yulya K. | Yulya K. | Anastasia | Yulya K. | Aleksandra | Yulya K. | Aleksandra | Aleksandra | Aleksandra | ||
| 5 | Yulya Z. | Ira | Tatyana | Aleksandra | Alya | Alya | Lyudmila | Irina | Irina | |||
| 6 | Darya | Irina | Ira | Darya | Irina | Lyudmila | Tatyana | Lyudmila | ||||
| 7 | Ira | Alya | Anastasia | Yulya Z. | Darya | Irina | Darya | |||||
| 8 | Dana | Lyudmila | Darya | Tatyana | Yulya Z. | Yulya Z. | ||||||
| 9 | Alya | Yulya Z. | Alya | Yulya K. | Anastasia | |||||||
| 10 | Anya | Aleksandra | Aleksandra | Ira | ||||||||
| 11 | Anastasia | Dana | Dana | |||||||||
| 12 | Irina | Anya | ||||||||||
| 13 | Marta | |||||||||||
- The contestant was eliminated
- The contestant was part of a non-elimination bottom two
- The contestant won the competition
- In episode 4, Aleksandra, Darya, and Yulya Z's names were not called at panel.
- Episode 11 featured a non-elimination bottom two.
Photo Shoot Guide
- Episode 1 Photo Shoot: Topless on Car
- Episode 2 Photo Shoot: Construction Building
- Episode 3 Photo Shoot: Rock Climbing
- Episode 4 Photo Shoot: Ballet Couple
- Episode 5 Photo Shoot: Steam in a Locker Room
- Episode 6 Photo Shoot: Jumping in Shop Window
- Episode 7 Photo Shoot: Couples in a Bedroom
- Episode 8 Photo Shoot: Water Nymphs
- Episode 9 Photo Shoot: Devoted Maidens
- Episode 10 Photo Shoot: Disco Fever
- Episode 11 Photo Shoot: Beauty Shoot with Jewels
- Episode 12 Photo Shoot: Haute Couture
Judges
- Svetlana Bondarchuk (Host)
- Dmitry Zhuravlev
- Elena Myasnikova
- Tatiana Mikhalkova
- Vladimir Glynin