About this season
KVN is a Russian humour TV show and competition where teams compete by giving funny answers to questions and showing prepared sketches. The programme was first aired by the First Soviet Channel on November 8, 1961. Eleven years later, in 1972, when few programmes were being broadcast live, Soviet censors found the students' impromptu jokes offensive and anti-Soviet and banned KVN. The show was revived fourteen years later during the Perestroika era in 1986, with Alexander Maslyakov as its host. It is one of the longest-running TV programmes on Russian Television. It also has its own holiday on November 8, the birthday of the game, which KVN players celebrate every year since it was announced and widely celebrated for the first time in 2001.
Episodes (13)
1. Episode 1
Aired 1 January 1999 • 115 min
2. Episode 2
Aired 8 January 1999
3. Episode 3
Aired 15 January 1999
4. Episode 4
Aired 22 January 1999
5. Episode 5
Aired 29 January 1999
6. Episode 6
Aired 5 February 1999
7. Episode 7
Aired 12 February 1999
8. Episode 8
Aired 19 February 1999
9. Episode 9
Aired 12 July 1999
10. Episode 10
Aired 5 March 1999
11. Episode 11
Aired 12 March 1999
12. Episode 12
Aired 5 December 1999
13. Episode 13
Aired 26 March 1999