Ukraine in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009


Ukraine will be the host of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2009, held at the Palace of Sports in Kiev. NTU has held a national final to select the fourth Ukrainian entry for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest.

Before Junior Eurovision

National final

held a national final to select the Ukrainian entry to the JESC 2009. From the 70 accepted entries received by NTU for the contest, a professional jury selected 32 to compete in a pre-recorded semi-final on 14 May 2009. The members of the jury were Roman Nedzelskiy, Mihaylo Chemberzhi, Natalia Efimenko Victor Knysh, Olexander Zlotnik, Marina Modina and Nadya Atonasova.

Semi-final

At the semi-final on 14 May 2009, 15 entries were selected by the jury to progress to the live final on 14 June 2009.

Final

The final, attended by Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, took place on 14 June 2009 at the International Children's Centre 'Artek' in Kiev, and was hosted by commentator for Eurovision and Junior Eurovision Timur Miroshnychenko and three-time participant at the Ukrainian Junior national final Marietta. Fifteen competing acts participated in the televised production where the winner was determined by a 50/50 combination of both public telephone vote and the votes of jury members made up of music professionals. Andranik Alexanyan was selected to represent Ukraine with the song "Try topoli, try surmy". Only the televoting results were revealed, which Olexander Chernenko won. Andranik Alexanyan came second and Liza Malaeva came in third.
The members of the jury that voted in the final were Vasil Ilaschuk, Yuriy Pavlenko, Vasil Vovkun, Mihaylo Chemberzhi, Olexander Zlotnik, Boris Novozhilov, Marina Modina and Vasyl Lazarovych.

At Eurovision

Points awarded to Ukraine

Points awarded by Ukraine

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