Ty - supermodel

You Are a Supermodel (Russian: "Ты - супермодель") was a Russian reality show on the STS TV channel, in which aspiring models vied for a contract with international modeling agency Point Models and a cash prize of 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	Destination(s)
1	January 25, 2004	Ksenia Kahnovich	Alexandra Oleynik	Olga Sandrakova, Elena Umnova, Anastasiya Polunina, Nataliya Churayeva, Olga Shekhereva, Veronika Nerodub, Ksenia Pirozhkova, Barbara Serova, Anastasiya Salozubova & Eugenia Tolstikova, Yuliya Vorobieva, Yuliya Oleynik	14	St. Petersburg
2	January 29, 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	January 15, 2006	Tatiana Pekurovskaya	Viktoriya Maruseva	Olga Vyatkina & Polina Lynova, Olga Kagarlitskaya, Vera Kirienko (quit), Svetlana Zavialova, Olga Volkova, Maya Puzhaeva (quit), Ekaterina Lomachinskaya, Elena Volkova, Alexandra Gurkova, Elvira Teslina, Alexandra Kesova, Anna Petukhova	15	Novosibirsk
4	October 6, 2007	Tatiana Krohina	Alevtina Kuptsova & Yuliya Kuchina	Marta Georgieva, Anna Belova, Dana Borisenko, Irina Tokareva, Anastasiya Bogushevskaya, Yuliya Zavyalova, Darya Sverchkova, Lyudmila Krimer, Irina Galushkina, Alexandra Lobanova	13	St. Petersburg & Novosibirsk

References

External links

• You Are a Supermodel, Cycle 1
• You Are a Supermodel, Cycle 2
• You Are a Supermodel, Cycle 4