The winners will be judged: Bilan and Ani Lorak were named singer of the Year
The XI ceremony of awarding the Russian National Music Award "Victoria" took place in Moscow on March 14. This evening, the brightest stars of the domestic industry walked the red carpet to the stage of the Live Arena, where they learned the names of the best this season in 13 nominations. Dima Bilan was named "Singer of the Year", and Ani Lorak was named "Singer of the Year". The award was also remembered for the red carpet. Whom Yana Rudkovskaya called the breakthrough of the year, with whom Dmitry Dibrov appeared and who else of the artists left with statuettes — in the Izvestia report.
Musicians in black and Dibrov with a companion
Traditionally, Victoria hosts the main stars of the Russian stage on its red carpet — established artists and young performers. Among the guests of the eleventh ceremony was the folk band from Ufa Ay Yola, which became the breakthrough of 2025 after the release of the track Homay. The team was presented in three categories at once ("Pop Group of the Year", "Music Video of the Year" and "Song of the Year"), shone in traditional costumes, which made them stand out. Most of the participants of the event adhered to the black tie dress code.
Singer Seville (Artik & Asti)
Singer Seville (Artik & Asti) was one of the first to appear on the track in a luxurious black set: an asymmetrical corset and a long slit skirt. This evening she had to compete with Ay Yola for the victory in the nomination "Song of the Year". Another category in which it was presented was "Dance Hit of the Year". Both of them are for the hit "Hoodie" together with Dzhigan and Niletto, which has already earned more than one award.
Rapper Dzhigan
Alsou appeared next. She chose a more restrained look — a stylish black pantsuit. Although, however, she shared that she had prepared a different outfit for the stage. Singer Jasmine, Julianna Karaulova, and the A' Studio group also turned out to be on the black side this evening. The male half is the same. Grigory Leps, who posed for photographers in a coral jacket on this track a year earlier, has now chosen the classics. Curiously, a few hours earlier, the former bride of the artist Aurora Kiba, and the disagreement with whom it became known quite recently, still wore a wedding dress — although she did not parade in it at the wedding, but at one of the shows of the Moscow Fashion Week.
Singer Lucy Chebotina
Singer Lyusya Chebotina and producer Yana Rudkovskaya were responsible for white on the Victoria's track. The latter expertly shared her observations about which of the young artists stands out on stage today.
"For me, the breakthrough of the year is Vanya Dmitrienko," she told Izvestia.
Among the guests were Leonid Agutin's father Nikolai Agutin, Dmitry Dibrov in the company of Ekaterina's companion, composer Igor Krutoy, poet Mikhail Gutseriev, who would later win the Poet of the Year nomination for the song "Bitter Rain" for Dima Bilan.
— I'm waiting for what I've been listening to for a year, and I've been listening to something all the time, to match what I'm going to hear today. I understand music and poetry. I like the current trends in music. There is less melodic music, more modern and unusual. I don't see anything wrong with this — it's just a generational change, you need to understand that," Gutseriev shared his thoughts before the ceremony.
Dmitry Dibrov and his companion Ekaterina
For the first time since his appointment as artistic director of the Mikhailovsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Ildar Abdrazakov was released. Later, he will present awards in the Composer of the Year nomination from the stage. There were two winners here — Leonid Agutin ("Soul") and Maxim Fadeev ("Straight to the Heart").
Who received the Victoria Award
The main intrigue awaited the guests of the evening in the auditorium, where a few hours later the tracks were ready to announce the names of the winners. They were determined by a professional jury. Olesya Sudzilovskaya and Nikolai Baskov became the hosts of the evening. And the musical start of the ceremony was given by Vanya Dmitrienko, who performed the song "Real".
The numbers accompanied the entire ceremony. Philip Kirkorov, Grigory Leps, and Alsu performed. Egor Creed, who performed one of his latest songs, "Forget—me-Nots", became a special guest of the award this year. He also won the nomination "Hip-hop artist of the Year", where he was presented twice — with the song "Malo" and with a joint track with Basta "Tomorrow". Dima Bilan was recognized by the jury as the singer of the year for the song "Bitter Rain". And the video for this song earned him a statuette in the nomination "Music Video of the Year".
singer Alsou
— I want to say a huge thank you to those wonderful and talented people with whom I managed to work and keep up in this life. With this composition, I expressed, it seems to me, all my indignation against artists who put their lives into their work, work 22-23 hours a day, and try to look beautiful at the same time. It's a colossal and huge job," Bilan said.
In the Singer of the Year category, he beat Vanya Dmitrienko with "Silk", Sergey Lazarev with "If I Could", Vladimir Presnyakov with "Only You Never" and Leonid Agutin with "Soul".
The latter did not remain without a statuette. According to the award version, Leonid Agutin's show at the Luzhniki Stadium became the "Concert of the Year". In July 2025, the artist gathered about 80 thousand spectators at the venue.
"The best dance hit of the year" was expected to be the joint work of Dzhigan, Seville and Niletto "Hoodie". In the Urban Romance nomination, Grigory Leps and Lesha Svik won with the song "Give Hope", and the band "Bond with a Button", which thundered with the song "Kitchens", became the "Best Rock band or rock performers". Bashkir Ay Yola became the best pop group. Nikolay Rastorguev received a special award for his contribution to the music industry.
Ani Lorak won in the nomination "Singer of the Year" with the song "My Man".
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