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40 seasons across 432 episodes so far, still running.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
18 audience votes
Seasons
| 1 | Season 1 | 8 ep1986 |
| 2 | Season 2 | 7 ep1987 |
| 3 | Season 3 | 5 ep1989 |
| 4 | Season 4 | 7 ep1990 |
| 5 | Season 5 | 8 ep1991 |
| 6 | Season 6 | 10 ep1992 |
| 7 | Season 7 | 9 ep1993 |
| 8 | Season 8 | 10 ep1994 |
| 9 | Season 9 | 10 ep1995 |
| 10 | Season 10 | 13 ep1996 |
| 11 | Season 11 | 12 ep1997 |
| 12 | Season 12 | 13 ep1998 |
| 13 | Season 13 | 13 ep1999 |
| 14 | Season 14 | 12 ep2000 |
| 15 | Season 15 | 12 ep2001 |
| 16 | Season 16 | 12 ep2002 |
| 17 | Season 17 | 12 ep2003 |
| 18 | Season 18 | 12 ep2004 |
| 19 | Season 19 | 12 ep2005 |
| 20 | Season 20 | 12 ep2006 |
| 21 | Season 21 | 12 ep2007 |
| 22 | Season 22 | 12 ep2008 |
| 23 | Season 23 | 12 ep2009 |
| 24 | Season 24 | 12 ep2010 |
| 25 | Season 25 | 13 ep2011 |
| 26 | Season 26 | 13 ep2012 |
| 27 | Season 27 | 14 ep2013 |
| 28 | Season 28 | 13 ep2014 |
| 29 | Season 29 | 15 ep2015 |
| 30 | Season 30 | 15 ep2016 |
| 31 | Season 31 | 14 ep2017 |
| 32 | Season 32 | 15 ep2018 |
| 33 | Season 33 | 15 ep2019 |
| 34 | Season 34 | 14 ep2020 |
| 35 | Season 35 | 17 ep2021 |
| 36 | Season 36 | 16 ep2022 |
| 37 | Season 37 | 15 ep2023 |
| 38 | Season 38 | 15 ep2024 |
| 39 | Season 39 | 16 ep2025 |
| 40 | Season 40 | 11 ep2026 |
