Holos Krainy is the Ukrainian version of The Voice, and its winners list has become hard to keep straight. Thirteen seasons were completed between 2011 and 2023, with different coaches, format changes, and a season that stopped mid-run and came back months later. As of November 2026, a fourteenth season is in progress, with no winner yet. This page gives every completed winner in one place, with the coach, the year, and the changes that shaped each season.
Quick facts
| Show | Holos Krainy, The Voice of Ukraine |
| First aired | 22 May 2011, on 1+1 |
| Completed seasons | 13, from 2011 to 2023 |
| Current season | Season 14, in progress as of November 2026 |
| Known for | Blind auditions, rotating coaches, public-vote final |
Every winner, season by season
The table below covers all thirteen completed seasons. Spelling of Ukrainian names varies in English, so the forms used here follow the most common versions in the show’s own listings.
| Season | Year | Winner | Coach |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2011 | Ivan Hanzera | Diana Arbenina |
| 2 | 2012 | Pavlo Tabakov | Diana Arbenina |
| 3 | 2013 | Anna Khodorovska | Oleksandr Ponomaryov |
| 4 | 2014 | Ihor Hrokhotskyy | Svyatoslav Vakarchuk |
| 5 | 2015 | Anton Kopityn | Tina Karol |
| 6 | 2016 | Vitalina Musiyenko | Svyatoslav Vakarchuk |
| 7 | 2017 | Oleksandr Klymenko | Tina Karol |
| 8 | 2018 | Olena Lutsenko | Serhii Babkin |
| 9 | 2019 | Oksana Mukha | Dan Balan |
| 10 | 2020 | Roman Sasanchyn | Tina Karol |
| 11 | 2021 | Serhiy Lazanovsky | DOROFEEVA |
| 12 | 2022 | Mariya Kvitka | Oleksandra Zaritska and Andriy Matsola |
| 13 | 2023 | Mykhailo Panchyshyn | Artem Pyvovarov |
| 14 | 2026 | In progress, no winner yet | To be decided |
Season 1 first aired on 22 May 2011 and last aired on 11 September 2011. Ivan Hanzera won that first season, with Diana Arbenina as coach. Season 2 followed in early 2012, first airing on 8 January and ending on 29 April, with Pavlo Tabakov winning under Arbenina again.
Season 3 ran from 10 March to 9 June 2013, and Anna Khodorovska won under Oleksandr Ponomaryov. Season 4 ran from 2 March to 8 June 2014, with Ihor Hrokhotskyy winning under Svyatoslav Vakarchuk. Season 5 ran from 8 March to 7 June 2015, and Anton Kopityn won under Tina Karol.
Season 6 ran from 28 February to 29 May 2016, with Vitalina Musiyenko winning under Vakarchuk for a second time. Season 7 ran from 22 January to 23 April 2017, and Oleksandr Klymenko won under Karol. Season 8 ran from 28 January to 29 April 2018, with Olena Lutsenko winning under Serhii Babkin.
Season 9 ran from 20 January to 21 April 2019, and Oksana Mukha won under Dan Balan. Season 10 ran from 19 January to 26 April 2020, with Roman Sasanchyn winning under Karol for a third time. Season 11 ran from 24 January to 25 April 2021, and Serhiy Lazanovsky won under DOROFEEVA.
Season 12 first aired on 23 January 2022 and last aired on 20 November 2022, with Mariya Kvitka winning under Oleksandra Zaritska and Andriy Matsola. Season 13 ran from 3 September to 29 October 2023, and Mykhailo Panchyshyn won under Artem Pyvovarov. Season 14 began on 25 October 2026 and is still running.
How the show works
Holos Krainy follows the international Voice format, created within the format developed by Dutch television producer John de Mol Jr., which began as The Voice of Holland. Ukraine’s version was an early adaptation, following the American version.
Blind auditions open the show. A coach hears the voice without seeing the singer, and turns a chair only for a voice that earns a place on the team. The format tests the voice alone, and it gives singers who might not fit a usual television look a fair hearing.
Battle rounds pair team members against each other, and the knockout stage, introduced as Super Battles in season 3, changed the middle of the show again. Singers perform, coaches choose, and the field narrows. In the live shows, the decision shifts increasingly to viewers, and the final winner is decided by public vote.
There is also a children’s version, Holos Dity, which is a separate competition with its own winners. It is not part of the list above, and its seasons should not be mixed with the main show.
How the show changed
The opening and the ending stayed steady across thirteen seasons, while the middle rounds kept changing. Season 6 introduced a chair system in the knockouts, which made that stage more open about who stayed and who left.
Season 7 increased team sizes to sixteen singers per coach and made other changes to the battles. Season 9 introduced a block in the blind auditions, letting each coach block one rival coach once. Season 11 removed that block, returning the blind auditions to a simpler form.
Season 10 introduced a new steal in the knockout stage, allowing a mentor to take a singer dropped by another coach. Season 12 introduced a Second Chance stage, known in Ukrainian as Druhyi Shans, which gave singers a different route to the final. Season 13 removed the Second Chance coaches, reduced team sizes to ten, and replaced knockouts with cross-battles.
The coaches who kept winning
Coaching success is concentrated but not closed off. Tina Karol leads with three wins, in seasons 5, 7 and 10. Diana Arbenina and Svyatoslav Vakarchuk have two wins each. Oleksandr Ponomaryov, Serhii Babkin, Dan Balan, DOROFEEVA, the duo of Oleksandra Zaritska and Andriy Matsola, and Artem Pyvovarov each have one win. Across thirteen completed seasons, that is nine different winning coaches or coaching combinations.
Karol’s record stands out because her wins came in three different eras of the show, under different rules and against different panels. Arbenina’s two wins came back to back, in the first two seasons, when the show was still finding its shape. Vakarchuk’s two wins came in seasons 4 and 6, with a gap in between. Each pattern tells a different story about what coaching meant at the time.
Editor’s take: the list makes a coach’s job look easy, and it is not. A winning coach has to pick voices that can survive battles, knockouts and live shows, and then keep those singers steady in front of a voting public. Karol did that three times, which is why her name keeps coming up whenever the show’s history is discussed.
The seasons that broke the pattern
Season 12 is unlike any other season in the list. It began on 23 January 2022, stopped after only six episodes, and returned on 2 October 2022 on TET, before ending on 20 November 2022. Mariya Kvitka won from the Second Chance team, the first and only winner to come through that route.
Season 13, known as the European Season, was the first season in the whole international Voice family to be staged in Poland, and it used a different production setup from the earlier seasons in Kyiv. Its coaches were Ivan Klymenko, Nadia Dorofeeva, Artem Pyvovarov and Julia Sanina, and its hosts were Yuriy Horbunov and Kateryna Osadcha. Pyvovarov won in his first season as a coach, with Mykhailo Panchyshyn, and the runner-up was Yuriy Horodetskyy.
Season 4 also sits in a different context, airing in spring 2014, a period of major change in Ukraine. The show went ahead, and Hrokhotskyy’s win under Vakarchuk became part of a season that viewers remembered for reasons beyond the singing.
Where to start
New viewers do best starting with the season 12 final, where Mariya Kvitka’s win from the Second Chance team makes the most sense once the interrupted season is understood. Next comes season 9, where Oksana Mukha’s win under Dan Balan is the most often replayed of the late 2010s, for a voice that sounded fully formed from the first note. Season 5 rounds out the set, with Anton Kopityn’s win under Tina Karol; it is the cleanest example of the show’s early format, before the later rounds were reshaped, and it shows why Karol became the show’s most successful coach.
Frequently asked questions
Who won the first season of Holos Krainy?
Ivan Hanzera won season 1 in 2011, coached by Diana Arbenina. The season first aired on 22 May 2011 and last aired on 11 September 2011.
Who has won the most seasons as a coach?
Tina Karol has won the most seasons as a coach, with three wins in seasons 5, 7 and 10. Diana Arbenina and Svyatoslav Vakarchuk are next, with two wins each.
Who is the most recent winner of Holos Krainy?
Mykhailo Panchyshyn is the most recent completed-season winner, winning season 13 in 2023 under Artem Pyvovarov. Season 14 began on 25 October 2026, and as of November 2026 it has no winner yet.
Why did season 12 stop and start again?
Season 12 began on 23 January 2022, stopped after six episodes, and returned on 2 October 2022 on TET, ending on 20 November 2022. Mariya Kvitka won that season from the Second Chance team, the first winner to come through that route.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Holos Krainy
- 1+1 — official site of the broadcaster
- TET — official site of the channel that carried season 12 on its return
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