What places did Russia occupy at Eurovision in the entire history of the competition?

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

For the first time, the competition, which was then called the Eurovision Grand Prix, was held in 1956 in Switzerland. Russia began to take part in Eurovision only in 1994. During all this time, they managed to win only once - in 2008. And how were things in other years?

The rules of the competition are as follows: Eurovision consists of two semi-finals and a final. Each participating country has a national jury that awards votes to the contestants. Then the audience also votes. You cannot vote for your country.

1994 year

Russia's first participation in Eurovision. Singer Judith performed the composition "Eternal Wanderer", with which she took 9th place.

1995 year

Philip Kirkorov represented Russia with the song "Volcano Lullaby". The artist managed to take only 17th place.

1996 year

This year, all countries had to go through the qualifying stage. The jury listened to the compositions and chose only 22 songs that should go to the final. Russian performer Andrei Kosinsky and his song "I am me" at this stage were awarded 26th place, so he did not make it to the final of the competition.

1997 year

Russia was represented by Alla Pugacheva with the composition "Prima Donna". As a result of the vote of the judges and viewers, Pugacheva took 15th place.

1998 year

Russia was deprived of the right to participate in Eurovision due to a poor result last year. Tatyana Ovsienko was supposed to go to the competition with the song "My Sun".

1999 year

In 1998, Russia refused to broadcast Eurovision due to the denial. In 1999, the country was suspended from the competition due to this incident.

year 2000

For two years Russia did not participate in the competition, but returned to it with triumph, taking second place. This year the country was represented by the singer Alsou with the song "Solo".

year 2001

The group "Mumiy Troll" performed from Russia with the song "Lady Alpine Blue". It turned out to take only 12th place.

2002 year

The group "Prime Minister" with the song "Northern Girl" performed in the Eurovision final and scored 55 points. Result - 10th place.

2003 year

This year, Russia was represented by the popular group t. A. T.u. with the composition "Do not believe, do not be afraid." The country became the main favorite of Eurovision, but took only 3rd place. Before the coveted first, 3 points were not enough.

2004 year

The country was represented by Julia Savicheva with the song "Believe Me". She managed to take 11th place.

2005 year

Through a national vote, it was established that Natalia Podolskaya will go to the competition with the song "Nobody Hurt No One". She took 15th place in the Eurovision final.

2006 year

Dima Bilan first participated in Eurovision with the song “Never Let You Go”. He took 2nd place.

2007 year

Russia was represented by the Serebro group and their song “Song # 1. Result - 3rd place.

2008 year

Triumph of Russia at Eurovision. Dima Bilan went to the competition for the second time, choosing the song "Believe". The artist received the most votes and won 1st place.

year 2009

This year the competition was held in Moscow. The representative was Anastasia Prikhodko with the song "Mamo", which took 11th place in the final.

2010 year

Petr Nalich performed from Russia with the song "Lost and Forgotten". He took 11th place.

2011

Alexey Vorobyov with the song "Get You" was internally selected as a participant in the competition. He finished sixteenth in the final.

year 2012

"Buranovskie grandmothers" represented Russia with the song "Party for Everybody". In the semifinals, the team managed to take first place, but in the final they lost a little to the winners. They were given only 2nd place.

year 2013

The winner of the "Voice" show Dina Garipova took part from Russia with the song "What If". The artist took 5th place in the final.

year 2014

The sisters Anastasia and Maria Tolmachev took part in the competition. In the final they were awarded 7th place.

2015 year

Polina Gagarina performed from Russia with the song "A Million Voices". In the final, she scored 303 points and took 2nd place.

2016 year

This year the country was represented by Sergey Lazarev with the song "You are the only one". In the final, he took 3rd place.

2017 year

From Russia Yulia Samoilova was supposed to perform with the song "Flame Is Burning". But the singer was banned from entering Ukraine, which is hosting the competition, because of her concert given in 2015 in Crimea.

2018 year

Yulia Samoilova was still able to take part in Eurovision with the song “I Won’t Break”, but she did not manage to get to the final.

2019 year

Russia was again represented by Sergey Lazarev with the song "Scream". In the final, he took 3rd place.

2020 year

Russia was supposed to be represented by the Little Big group with the song "UNO", but due to the pandemic, the competition was canceled.

2021 year

Singer Manizha presented Russia with the song "Russian Woman". As a result, the artist took 9th place.