Ty - supermodel (Russian: "Ты - супермодель"; English: "You are a supermodel") was a Russian reality show on the STS TV channel, in which aspiring models vied for a contract with international modeling agency worth 250,000 dollars. The anchor of the show for the first two cycles was Fyodor Bondarchuk. Then Alexander Tsekalo took over for cycle 3. The host of the fourth cycle was Bondarchuk's wife, popular presenter Svetlana Bondarchuk.
The first cycle was held in 2004 and was won by 17-year-old Ksenia Kahnovich who refused the first prize, which was a contract with NEXT model management because she had already received a more lucrative offer by that time.[1] Since the time of her victory, Kahnovich has become a very successful model, having walked in fashion shows for big names such as Versace, Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Dolce and Gabbana in New York, Paris and Milan.[2]
Cycle two was held exactly one year after the first one and saw victory for Svetlana Sergienko, who was asked by Russian president Vladimir Putin to join the parliament as a representative for the growing modeling industry in Russia.
The show was discontinued after four cycles and returned under the name Top Model po-russki on Muz-TV in 2011.
Format
The finalists live in a house together in Moscow, and face different competitions in modeling, sports and entertainment. At the end of each episode there is an elimination round where one girl is sent home until there is only one girl left.
Prominent faces of Russia's entertainment and modeling industry co-star as mentors or guest judges, giving their opinions and helping decide the eliminations at the end of the show. The main photographers as of the end of cycle were Dmitry Zhuravlev and Vladimir Glynin.
Cycles
| Cycle | Premiere date | Winner | Runner-up | Other contestants in order of elimination | Number of contestants | International Destinations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 27 March 2004 | Ksenia Kahnovich | Sasha Oleynik | Olga Sandrakova, Elena Umnova, Nastya Polunina, Natalia Churayeva, Olga Shekhereva, Veronika Nedorub, Ksenia Pirozhkova, Varvara Serova, Nastya Salozubova & Evgenia Tolstikova, Yulia Oleynik & Yulia Vorobieva | 14 | St. Petersburg |
| 2 | 29 January 2005 | Svetlana Sergienko | Arina Morozova | Kristina Andreeva, Alyona Tsepova, Ekaterina Borisova, Dariya Ivanova, Yulia Ivanova, Anna Borodina, Svetlana Kostecko, Tatiana Tanayeva, Nataliya Malyutina, Kseniya Khizhnyak, Anastasiya Titova | 13 | None |
| 3 | 15 January 2006 | Tatyana Pekurovskaya | Vika Maruseva | Olga Vyatkina & Polina Lynova, Olga Kagarlitskaya, Vera Kirienko (quit), Sveta Zavialova, Olga Volkova, Maya Puzhaeva (quit), Katya Lomachinskaya, Elena Volkova, Sasha Gurkova, Elvira Teslina, Sasha Kesova, Anna Petukhova | 15 | Novosibirsk |
| 4 | 6 October 2007 | Tatyana Krokhina | Alya Kuptsova & Yulya Kuchina |
Marta Georgieva, Anya Belova, Dana Borisenko, Ira Tokareva, Anastasia Bogushevskaya, Yulya Zavyalova, Darya Sverchkova, Lyudmila Krimer, Irina Galushkina, Aleksandra Lobanova | 13 | St. Petersburg & Novosibirsk |
