This is the first season of Kto khochet stat' millionerom?, the Russian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. It's hosted by Maxim Galkin. This season Maxim Galkin made his debut as a presenter after the show was renamed from "O, Schastlivchik!" to "Kto khochet stat' millionerom?" and the transition from NTV to Channel One.
Lifelines[]
Episodes[]
- Episode 1 (19 February 2001)
Leonid Taratukhin (1,000 rubles - lost on 32,000 rubles) Zaurbek Kozhev (32,000 rubles - lost on 500,000 rubles) Oksana Orlova (1,000 rubles - lost on 4,000 rubles) Andrey Olshevsky (2,000 rubles, continued)
- Episode 2 (21 February 2001)
Andrey Olshevsky (1,000 rubles - lost on 4,000 rubles) Zhanna Lukyanova (1,000 rubles - lost on 8,000 rubles) Vyacheslav Miller (1,000 rubles - lost on 4,000 rubles) Natalya Kirilova (125,000 rubles) Alexander Chebanenko (8,000 rubles, continued)
- Episode 3 (26 February 2001)
Alexander Chebanenko (16,000 rubles) Sergey Polonsky (32,000 rubles - lost on 64,000 rubles) Igor Lokshin (1,000 rubles - lost on 16,000 rubles) Olga Tretyakova (32,000 rubles - lost on 64,000 rubles)
- Episode 4 (28 February 2001)
Svetlana Chernyshova (0 rubles - lost on 1,000 rubles) Yury Maltsev (32,000 rubles - lost on 64,000 rubles) Valery Chirko (64,000 rubles) Tatyana Voronina (4,000 rubles, continued)
- Episode 5 (5 March 2001)
Tatyana Voronina (32,000 rubles - lost on 125,000 rubles) Yury Filonov (1,000 rubles - lost on 4,000 rubles) Sergey Petryakov (32,000 rubles - lost on ? rubles) Alexander Lyakhov (?)
- Episode 6 (7 March 2001)
Yelena Gubar (8,000 rubles) (returned in 15th episode instead of bad question) Dina Pakhomova (?) Yury Reizer (1,000 rubles - lost on ? rubles)
- Episode 7 (12 March 2001)
Igor Sazeyev (1,000,000 rubles) Alexander Monakhov (1,000 rubles - lost on 16,000 rubles) Irina Dimura (500 rubles, continued)
- Episode 8 (14 March 2001)
Irina Dimura (1,000 rubles - lost on 16,000 rubles) Eldar Rakhimov (64,000 rubles) Irina Mestergazi (32,000 rubles - lost on 64,000 rubles)
- Episode 9 (19 March 2001)
Dmitry Dubrovin (32,000 rubles - lost on ? rubles) Olga Shishkova (1,000 rubles - lost on 4,000 rubles) Ildar Nazerov (?) Sergey Starostin (1,000 rubles, continued)
- Episode 10 (21 March 2001)
Sergey Starostin (4,000 rubles) Olga Pavlova (1,000 rubles - lost on 16,000 rubles) Irina Yefimovich (8,000 rubles) Yury Dashkovsky (32,000 rubles, continued)
- Episode 11 (26 March 2001)
Yury Dashkovsky (32,000 rubles - lost on 125,000 rubles) Yelena Privalikhina (1,000 rubles - lost on 32,000 rubles) Marina Lyzhina (8,000 rubles) Igor Galkin (64,000 rubles, continued)
- Episode 12 (28 March 2001)
Igor Galkin (32,000 rubles - lost on 250,000 rubles) Leonid Kleiman (125,000 rubles) Georgy Bidzhamov (32,000 rubles - lost on 125,000 rubles) Alexander Radin (4,000 rubles, continued)
- Episode 13 (2 April 2001)
Alexander Radin (?) Igor Korotkov (?) Dmitry Sidorov (?) Ruslan Kuramshin (?, continued)
- Episode 14 (4 April 2001)
Ruslan Kuramshin (?) Alexey Aksenov (?) Anton Arefyev (?) Irina Kozhenkova (?)
- Episode 15 (9 April 2001)
Yelena Gubar (64,000 rubles) Andrey Mikhaylov (?) Kirill Vertyayev (1,000 rubles, continued)
- Episode 16 (11 April 2001)
Kirill Vertyayev (?) Nina Batuyeva (64,000 rubles) Mariya Kuznetsova (?) Andrey Komkov (300 rubles, continued)
- Episode 17 (16 April 2001)
Andrey Komkov (1,000 rubles - lost on 32,000 rubles) Vladimir Sergeyev (1,000 rubles - lost on 16,000 rubles) Igor Kombarov (16,000 rubles)
- Episode 18 (17 April 2001)
Yury Ivchin (64,000 rubles) Anzhela Tipa (1,000 rubles - lost on 16,000 rubles) Mikhail Yakovlev (1,000 rubles, continued)
- Episode 19 (23 April 2001)
Mikhail Yakovlev (1,000 rubles - lost on 16,000 rubles) Irina Samartseva (1,000 rubles - lost on 2,000 rubles) Alexander Belyakov (1,000 rubles - lost on 8,000 rubles) Stanislav Leontyev (1,000 rubles - lost on 4,000 rubles) Valentina Eruslanova (32,000 rubles, continued)
- Episode 20 (30 April 2001)
Valentina Eruslanova (32,000 rubles - lost on 64,000 rubles) Tatyana Tamaeva (64,000 rubles) Vladimir Rukavitsyn (32,000 rubles - lost on 64,000 rubles) Oleg Kovachev (8,000 rubles, continued)
- Episode 21 (2 May 2001)
Oleg Kovachev (1,000 rubles - lost on 16,000 rubles) Alexander Milyayev (1,000 rubles - lost on 16,000 rubles) Pyotr Sukhachev (1,000 rubles - lost on 32,000 rubles) Yuliya Mikhaylova (64,000 rubles)
- Episode 22 (7 May 2001)
Vildan Askarov (125,000 rubles) Andrey Alexandrov (?) Denis Tokranov (?)
- Episode 23 (14 May 2001)
Irina Chamkina (?) Anatoly Belkin (250,000 rubles) Alexey Danilov (?)
- Episode 24 (16 May 2001)
Pavel Surkov (?) Denis Zverev (16,000 rubles) Yelena Barinova (?) Vladislav Nikitin (?, continued)
- Episode 25 (21 May 2001)
Vladislav Nikitin (?) Yekaterina Mochalova (?) Valery Volokh (?) Dmitry Kalyaka (?, continued)
- Episode 26 (23 May 2001)
Dmitry Kalyaka (1,000 rubles - lost on 32,000 rubles) Nikolay Nikolayev (?) Viktoriya Snigireva (?) Irina Baskind (?, continued)
- Episode 27 (28 May 2001)
Irina Baskind (4,000 rubles) Yury Churkin (?) Viktor Ryabov (125,000 rubles) Yuliya Brodskaya (?)
- Episode 28 (30 May 2001)
Galina Rumyantseva (?) Andrey Alchakov (?) Alexander Trubachev (?) Yevgeny Bryansky (?, continued)
- Episode 29 (4 June 2001)
Yevgeny Bryansky (?) Olga Bespalova (?) Yana Nekhorina (?) Roman Belkin (?)
- Episode 30 (6 June 2001)
Yevgeny Shtyrkov (64,000 rubles) Boris Lugay (250,000 rubles)
- Episode 31 (13 June 2001)
Yury Alexanyan (1,000 rubles - lost on 32,000 rubles) Alexey Streicher (1,000 rubles - lost on 8,000 rubles) Alexander Bagayev (?) Viktor Balashevsky (?, continued)
- Episode 32 (18 June 2001)
Viktor Balashevsky (?) Dmitry Pavlov (?) Yuliya Lushpay (?)
- Episode 33 (25 June 2001)
Alexander Shtrikov (?) Alexander Tomilin (?) Alexander Karabanov (?)
- Episode 34 (4 July 2001)
Ilya Taranik (32,000 rubles - lost on ? rubles) Viktor Chigrakov (?) Alexey Slugin (32,000 rubles - lost on 125,000 rubles) Stanislav Sadovin (won FFF, continued)
- Episode 35 (11 July 2001)
Stanislav Sadovin (0 rubles - lost on 500 rubles) Dilyara Arslanova (1,000 rubles - lost on 8,000 rubles) Alexander Bychkov (8,000 rubles) Andrey Karpov (1,000 rubles - lost on 32,000 rubles) Ilya Zlotnik (1,000 rubles - lost on 4,000 rubles)
- Episode 36 (18 July 2001)
Oleg Alexeyev (1,000 rubles - lost on 2,000 rubles) Irina Suntsova (1,000 rubles - lost on 32,000 rubles) Igor Bogatyrev (1,000 rubles - lost on 8,000 rubles) Vyacheslav Amirkuliyev (16,000 rubles)
Trivia[]
- On 2nd episode, contestant Natalya Kirilova saved all three lifelines to 13th question. Also she took the money and used no two lifelines ("50:50" and "Ask the Audience").
- On 4th episode, on Svetlana Chernyshova's 5th question, 37% voted for wrong answer, but only 28% were right. She trusted to majority and walked away with nothing. Also Svetlana is first empty-handed contestant in Maxim Galkin era (name of show in KHSM was changed).
- On 5th episode, contestant Yury Filonov used all three lifelines on his 7th question. In addition, 56% voted for incorrect option, but 30% were right. Yury believed the audience and walked away with 1,000 rubles.
- On 6th episode, Yelena Gubar was asked a question without a correct answer. She decided to walk away with 8,000 rubles, but Maxim Galkin reported an error and apologized to her, telling her that she would continue the game at the 9th question in other episode. After that, in 15th episode, she won 64,000 rubles.
- 7th episode was originally the first filmed episode, but instead aired out of order on 12 March 2001.
- Igor Sazeyev is the first contestant to win the top prize, and the second person to see the final question.
- In 8th episode, second FFF failed.
- In 9th episode, on Olga Shishkova's 4,000 rubles question, 82% for wrong answer, but only 15% were right.
- In 19th episode, on Irina Samartseva's 6th question after "50:50" elimination 58% voted for wrong answer, but other 42% were right.
- Stanislav Sadovin is the second contestant to walked away with nothing in this season.
- Total winnings of two seasons of "O, Schastlivchik!" (1999-2001) and first season of "KHSM" is 7,807,000 rubles. Total winnings in second season of "O, Schastlivchik" (September 2000 - January 2001) and first season of KHSM (February - July 2001) is 5,697,000 rubles.
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| Preceded by Season 2 (O, Schastlivchik!) |
Russian Series Season 1 |
Succeeded by Season 2 |