1994. He became a year when Russia joined the popular song contest. In Dublin, the singer Masha Katz went to Dublin, who spoke under the pseudonym Judith. The singer was in a ninth place, but her song "Eternal Wanderer", following the results of the audience, who passed in the UK was in the top ten for the entire history of the competition.
2 times Russian artists could not go to the final of the competition. In 1996, Andrei Kosinsky did not put on Oslo through the qualifying round with the song "I am I". And in 2018, in Lisbon, Yulia Samoilova was lucky with the song I Won't Break.
Philip Kirkorov took the 17th place on Eurovision in 1995
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17th place While is the worst result of Russia in the final of the competition. It is this position in the final table in 1995, Philip Kirkorov, who performed in Dublin with the song "Lullaby for the volcano". In subsequent time, Philip has repeatedly participated in the competition as a musical producer. It was in direct participation that musical numbers were prepared for both Russian participants of Eurovision and artists from Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova.
2nd and 3rd place Get Russian artists quite often. The second in the final table turned out to be Alsu in 2000, Dima Bilan in 2006, "Buranovsky grandmothers" in 2012 and Polina Gagarin in 2015. On the third line, according to the results of the competition, we managed to visit Tatu in 2003, Serebro in 2017 and twice Sergey Lazarev - in 2016 and 2019.
Polina Gagarin in 2015 received a "silver" musical competition
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6 times Russia at Eurovision was not solo artists, but entire collectives. In 2001, the Mumi Troll Group appeared in Copenhagen, in 2002 in Tallinn - Prime Minister, in 2003 in Riga - Tatu, in 2007 in Helsinki - Serebro, in 2010 in Oslo is a musical team of Peter Nalich, in 2012 in Baku - "Buranovsky grandmothers". Best results, namely, the second places got "Tattoo" and "Buranovsky grandmothers". Weaker than all of the groups showed themselves "Mumiy Troll", which eventually found himself on the 12th place.
15th place He took Alla Pugachev at Eurovision 1997 in Dublin. The song "Primadonna", which became a big hit in Russia, almost did not impress the Europeans.
1 time For all the time of Russia's participation in Eurovision, our artist was not allowed to contest for a political reasons. In 2017, for the singer Yulia Samoilova acted a three-year ban on entry into Ukraine because of the performance in the Crimea.
So far, Dima Bilan has become the only winner of Eurovision from Russian artists
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1 time Russian artist won the Eurovision contest. The Grand Prix in the form of a crystal microphone went to Dima Bilan for the Believe song performed by an artist in Belgrade in 2008.
$ 42 million. According to some information, the total costs of the Eurovision finale in the capital of Russia in 2009 are evaluated in this amount. This is not a record, but a very significant amount, which is at times exceeding budgets for the competition in many European countries.