You are a Supermodel (Russian: "Ты - супермодель") was a Russian reality show on the STS TV channel, a competition of non-professional aspiring models for a contract with the international model agency Point Models and prize money of 250,000 dollars. The anchor of the show for the first two cycles was Fyodor Bondarchuk (Федор Бондарчук). Then Alexander Tsekalo (Александр Цекало) took over for Cycle 3. The host of the fourth cycle was Bondarchuk's wife, popular presenter Svetlana Bondarchuk (Светлана Бондарчук).
Each cycle consists of 12 episodes with a live final in a TV studio. Save for cycle 1, when there were four girls left in the very last episode, the ranking order of the top 3 is determined in the final.
Each episode the (usually) 13 chosen 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 left: The Supermodel of the Year.
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 4 are Dmitry Zhuravlev and Vladimir Glynin.
The first cycle was held in 2004 and was won by then 17 year old Ksenia Kahnovich who refused the first priztze which was a contract with the modelling agency NEXT as she already got a more lucrative offer by that time. Since the time of her victory, Kahnovich has become successful in the modeling business having walked on fashion shows for big names such as Versace, Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Dolce and Gabbana in New York, Paris and Milan. She can easily be considered one of the most successful winners of a Next Top Model- casting show.
Cycle two was held exactly one year after the first one and saw victory for Svetlana Sergienko, who was asked by then-Russian president Vladimir Putin to join the parliament as a representative for the growing modeling industry in Russia.
The show discontinued after four Cycles and returned under the name Top Model po Russki onscreen on Muz-TV in 2011.
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