KVN Major League
6.7
18 votes
1986–
40 seasons
~1h 55m/ep
Family
Comedy
Talk
Overview
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.
Seasons
Season 1
8 episodes · 1986
Season 2
7 episodes · 1987
Season 3
5 episodes · 1989
Season 4
7 episodes · 1990
Season 5
8 episodes · 1991
Season 6
10 episodes · 1992
Season 7
9 episodes · 1993
Season 8
10 episodes · 1994
Season 9
10 episodes · 1995
Season 10
13 episodes · 1996
Season 11
12 episodes · 1997
Season 12
13 episodes · 1998
Season 13
13 episodes · 1999
Season 14
12 episodes · 2000
Season 15
12 episodes · 2001
Season 16
12 episodes · 2002
Season 17
12 episodes · 2003
Season 18
12 episodes · 2004
Season 19
12 episodes · 2005
Season 20
12 episodes · 2006
Season 21
12 episodes · 2007
Season 22
12 episodes · 2008
Season 23
12 episodes · 2009
Season 24
12 episodes · 2010
Season 25
13 episodes · 2011
Season 26
13 episodes · 2012
Season 27
14 episodes · 2013
Season 28
13 episodes · 2014
Season 29
15 episodes · 2015
Season 30
15 episodes · 2016
Season 31
14 episodes · 2017
Season 32
15 episodes · 2018
Season 33
15 episodes · 2019
Season 34
14 episodes · 2020
Season 35
17 episodes · 2021
Season 36
16 episodes · 2022
Season 37
15 episodes · 2023
Season 38
15 episodes · 2024
Season 39
16 episodes · 2025
Season 40
8 episodes · 2026
Details
Status
Returning Series
First aired
April 1, 1986
Last aired
March 12, 2026
Seasons
40
Episodes
432
Networks
Central Television USSR, Channel One
Language
Russian
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