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Yekaterina Petrovna "Katya" Zamolodchikova (RU: Екатерина Петровна "Катя" Замолодчикова), or simply just Katya (RU: Катя), is a drag queen, performer, comedian, acting, artist, and one of the Season 7 contestants of RuPaul's Drag Race (placed 5th and winner of the "Miss Congeniality" title), as well as one of the All Stars 2 runners-up.
Following her success on the show, she started releasing well-received recap videos during her run on both seasons, and later, alongside Trixie Mattel, begun hosting the YouTube show UNHhhh on World of Wonder's YouTube channel, followed by The Trixie & Katya Show on Viceland, and released their book Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood[3], as well as doing cameos on other TV shows/movies, and touring around the world.[4]
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Drag Name Origin[]
Katya's full drag name comes from Russian gymnasts: Yekaterina Lobaznyuk, Eugenia Petrovna Kuznetsova & Elena Zamolodchikova. Katya is a nickname for Yekaterina.[5]
Katya's last name, "Zamolodchikova", was dropped from the show, and she was mononymously referred to as "Katya". This follows a succession of past contestants such as "Detox Ic***", "Alaska Thunderfuck 5000", and "Willam Belli".
Before being on Season 7, back in Boston, she used to perform Russian numbers under the name "Katya", while to perform pop numbers, "Katie Homophobia". This stopped before the filming of the show.[6]
Track Records[]
Statistics | USA Season 7 | USA All Stars Season 2 |
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Ranking: | 5th Place (Miss Congeniality) |
2nd/3rd Place (Runner-Up) |
Maxi Challenges Won: | 2 (Eps. 6, 10) | 3 (Eps. 2, 6, 7) |
Mini Challenges Won: | 1 (Ep. 5) | 0 |
Times as Team Captain: | 0 | 0 |
Times in Bottom: | 2 (Eps. 2, 11) | 2 (Eps. 3, 4) |
Episode Eliminated: | Episode 11 | Episode 8 |
Memorable Quotes[]
RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7[]
- "Давай cезон семь!" (entrance quote)
- (in Russian accent) "Is this the Schulman bar mitzvah? девочки!"
- "I'm just your average run-of-the-mill Russian bisexual transvestite hooker."
- "Katya is at the intersection of glamour and comedy. You can find her right on the corner, selling her ass."
- "When do I get to blow them? I can't say that?" (referring to the Pit Crew)
- "I don't know what Ms. Crab Lady is doing in that lip-sync but the bearded hoe is turning it out!" (referring to Tempest DuJour and Kandy Ho, respectively)
- "I am sweating like a hooker in church."
- "I definitely needed to make a statement, so I try to pound my vagina into that stage so hard the building shakes."
- "Ginger's transformation is pretty remarkable. She goes from Kathy Bates to Bob Hoskins."
- "When in doubt, show them your asshole."
- "I'm not a dancer, per se, but I can move my body in a compelling way... it usually compels people to leave the room."
- "I'm not actually that young, I'm just ignorant."
- "I believe it was the great American painter Bob Ross who said: 'The key to a swollen vagina is... courage'."
- "I feel confident, I feel sexy, I feel stupid."
- "I'm feeling the Shark Week fantasy."
- "'Snatch Game' is when we all dress up in latex frog costumes and go through a fiery obstacle course..."
- "Honey, that wig was a bad investment." (as Suze Orman, to Miss Fame as Donatella Versace on "Snatch Game")
- "I'm trying to just serve sexy and confident, whore. Slutty cougar on the prowl. 3rd rate Faith Hill impersonator. 80% sexy, 20% disgusting."
- "In Russia, death and sex are the same. Cold, wet, dark and painful."
- "Kennedy's RuPaul was the weirdest fucking thing ever."
- "I believe there's a way to make everything work."
- "You know you want this crocheted pussy."
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 2[]
- "Счастливые голодные игры... Суки!" (entrance quote)
- "I'm here to show the world that I've turned into a total fucking monster."
- "Roxxxy Andrews, I think about you all the time, especially in the morning... at the bus stop." (said during All Stars 2's "Reading is Fundamental" challenge)
- "You're telling me that in addition to the $100,000 prize, we get $10,000 for each lip sync we win? That means I could walk out of here with at least $300,000... What, I didn't go to fucking school for math."
- "So, it's a new day in the werkroom, um, I hate those new day in the werkroom bites." *laughs*
- As Björk in Snatch Game:
- "strange gurgling sounds"
- "Hello RuPaul! I love your suit, it reminds me of the lining of my small intestine."
- "Sometimes, I don't understand anything about science..."
- "Yay! How many bones do I win?"
- "I want to eat your hair, it looks like pastrami." (to Jujubee)
- "[...] I am bombarded with a cacophony of demonic voices in my head telling me: 'YOU'RE NOT GOOD ENOUGH!'." (said during All Stars 2's "Drag Fish Tank" challenge)
- "My mom...I hate that fucking c***!... Just kidding!"
- "Party." (to Alaska)
- "H-E-A-R bitch, I am HERE!"
- "I have to say, there is a part of me that is very intrigued, and attracted, and seduced by this new power. (laughs)" (said during All Stars 2 confessionals)
- "It's a new day in the werkroom, and I'm feeling very good and sexy, and really grateful to be here."
- "I'm a little resentful at Ginger, because she gets the part not only that's Russian, but also fucks a horse." (about the Baddest Bitches in Herstory challenge)
- What!?(referring to Ginger after she said she wouldn't have let her go home)
- ♪ "Yekaterina Petrovna Zamolodchikova, but your dad just calls me Katya. I'm the bright red scare with the long blonde hair, always keep 'em coming back for more. You're a basic ass hoe and it's your time to go, so, bitch, let me show you the door! 'Cause it's me who's getting laid, and I'm always getting paid. The only high-class Russian whore! I'm a scorching hot mess in a skin-tight dress, that's a rash, not a herpes sore! Lenin in the streets, Dostoievski in the sheets, baby, are you ready for this Cold War? Katya Zamolodchikova." ♪ (Katya's verse in, "Read U Wrote U")
- "Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve, Talent. What do these qualities have in common? I don't know, I'm not a scientist. I stand here, a charismatic woman, of grace and dignity, with a unique sense of humor and point of view. In season 7, you let me show the world that I'm good enough and here, you let me believe it myself, and I can't thank you enough for that. As they say in Russia: я звезда - навсегда. спасибо большое."
- "I have a carburetor outside that I just have to do some work on." (to RuPaul, answering what "я звезда - навсегда. спасибо большое" means)
UNHhhh[]
- "In Russia, money, power, and wealth are the keys to experiencing the full depth and breadth of lesbianism."
- "In America, talk is cheap... in Colombia talk is... Spanish."
- "I'm the visual depiction of untreated mental illness."
- "Woo! I'm a mountain biking vampire witch from the future!"
- "Fuck my pussy with a rake, mom!"
- "I used to pray to God to take away my ass hair." (said during UNHhhh, episode 77)
- "I don't like eating a butt that's dirty." (said during UNHhhh, episode 81)
- *turns around* "Care for a fucking?"
- "I don't like what I'm doing right now."
- "If you're not embarrassed about last year you're not making any progress."
- "And I was a falsetto child: Katya!" (said during UNHhhh, episode 119)
- "You are so fucking gay. Let me tell you about you. Hi! You are gay. As. Shit. You are the gayest fucking piece of shit I've ever met in my life. So gay. So homosexual. So clearly and thoroughly gay. So fucking gay. Did you know?" (said during UNHhhh, episode 119)
- "I prayed that she wasn't there and then I saw her and she was there." (About Miss Fame during UNHhhh, episode 135)
- "It's like seeing an Olympic athlete on the balance beam execute a perfect routine and then they start pissing themselves."
- "If you have a baby you can't be the baby"
- "You know what rhymes with poop and pee? Peace, peace of mind."
- "Not one flickering fleeting millisecond of my life has been spent earnestly planning for a child."
- "Are you trying to awaken me to my life's purpose which is child abuse."
- "I'm the most selfish self-centered piece of shit I know."
- "When the fucking rams and the ding bats and the Vermont grapes lose the world hockey team whatever it is."
- "I'm gonna warn you right now, thank God we don't spend a lot of time together off the clock, but if you ever did that to me, I'd kill myself."
- "And I'm the only sure-fire way to disengage your temporomandibular joint, DOCTOR BITCHCRAFT!"
Farewell Message[]
Season 7[]
" Девочки! Я вас люблю! (Girls! I love you!) If you need me, you know where to find me. (The dumpster out back) XOXO Katya AKA The Brooke Hogan of Drag AKA Diarrhea Perlman ♡♡♡"
Trivia[]
- Katya graduated from Marlborough High School in 2000, and after attending Boston University for a year, decided to transfer to Massachusetts College of Art and Design, there discovering the art of doing drag.[7]
- Zamolodchikova is almost a polyglot (speaks English, Russian, French, and a little bit of a few other ones, like Japanese and Portuguese).[8]
- As a drag persona, she identifies as bisexual, but out of drag, identifies as a gay man.
- Katya is known for her "tea kettle" laugh.
- Katya won the Miss Gay Massachusetts pageant in 2007, but declined to compete in the national pageant because she guessed she would lose.[9][10]
- Even though her drag persona is Russian, she's mostly characterized with USSR elements.
- Her favorite movie is the 1997 movie Contact.[11]
- Her favorite TV series is Game of Thrones.[12]
- She turned Tatianna's spoken word talent show performance, "The Same Parts", into a running gag on UNHhhh.[13]
- She used to host a monthly drag show called "Perestroika" at the Jacques Cabaret.[14]
- In January 2018, she announced a short break from drag to take care of her mental health and addiction.
- Following her hiatus, she started doing a podcast called Whimsically Volatile, where she discusses different topics each episode.
- Along with Trixie Mattel, Jinkx Monsoon, RuPaul, and Alaska, she was made into a Funko Pop! figurine.[15]
- She's one of the few RuPaul's Drag Race alumni to reach 2 million followers on Instagram.
- She originally auditioned for Season 3.
- During Season 7, she revealed that she had a previous history of alcohol and drug addiction.
- After her entrance in Season 7, some of the other contestants thought she was Russian. She has mentioned that her audience occasionally mistakes her for being Russian as well.
- She was the only All-Stars 2 contestant in the Top 5 to not be originally from Season 5.
- She and Alaska were the second pair of contestants to lip-sync against each other twice (on All Stars 2), the first being BenDeLaCreme and Darienne Lake on Season 6.
- They have since been followed by:
- BenDeLaCreme and Shangela on All Stars 3
- Aquaria and Eureka! on Season 10
- Eureka! and Kameron Michaels on Season 10
- Mo Heart and Trinity The Tuck on All Stars 4
- Brooke Lynn Hytes and Yvie Oddly on Season 11
- Ma'Ma Queen and Miss Abby OMG on Holland Season 1
- Charity Kase and Scarlett Harlett on UK Season 3
- Daya Betty and DeJa Skye on Season 14
- Monét X Change and Trinity The Tuck on All Stars 4 and All Stars 7
- Jinkx Monsoon and Trinity The Tuck on All Stars 7
- Monét X Change and Shea Couleé on All Stars 7
- The Vivienne and Yvie Oddly on All Stars 7
- Jinkx Monsoon and Monét X Change on All Stars 7
- Brigiding and Minty Fresh on Philippines Season 1
- Anetra and Sasha Colby on Season 15
- Jimbo and Pangina Heals on UK vs The World 1 and All Stars 8
- They have since been followed by:
- Both of her entrance quotes were taken from entrance quotes said by contestants on previous seasons, except translated into Russian. Her Season 7 entrance was a reference to Laganja Estranja's entrance quote. Her All-Stars 2 entrance was originally said by Chad Michaels during her All Stars 1 entrance.
- She stated that All Stars 2's "Read U Wrote U" performance was difficult. She had to do her look (for the performance) in her hotel room, and during a take, she even dropped her fan.
- She's the 3rd ever contestant to place for 2 consecutive weeks on Bottom, and later win a challenge, in the same season, the first two being Raven in Season 2 and Adore Delano on Season 6.
- She is tied with Jimbo for the most "Lip Sync for Your Legacy" losses, with 3.
- She was the highest placing Miss Congeniality competing for the second time until Monét X Change won All Stars 4.
- On June 15, 2020, Katya hit 2 million followers on Instagram, making her the fourth queen to hit this feat, after Bianca Del Rio, Trixie Mattel, and Adore Delano, as well as the first Miss Congeniality to hit this feat.
- Trixie and Katya co-hosted the YouTube Streamy Awards in 2020, and the two of them won the Streamy for Best Unscripted Series for UNHhhh. Since 2017 the show has been nominated three times each in the Show of the Year and Best Unscripted Series categories respectively.
- Katya revealed on The Bald and the Beautiful that she was asked to be a Lip Sync Assassin for All Stars but she declined as she didn't want to make a fool of herself if she lost. She also said that she wouldn't compete on Drag Race again.
- On June 2022, Katya became the second queen to reach 1 million followers on X.
- She is also the second Season 7 queen to reach 1 million followers and first All Stars 2 queen to reach 1 million followers on X.
- Katya appeared in the music video for Sapphira Cristál's O mio babbino caro.[16]
- Katya has stated that she believes Ts Madison should replace RuPaul should she choose to leave Drag Race.[17]
Gallery[]
RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7[]
RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7 Looks[]
RuPaul's Drag Race Season 8[]
RuPaul's Drag Race Season 8 Looks[]
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 2[]
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 2 Looks[]
RuPaul's Drag Race Season 10[]
RuPaul's Drag Race Season 10 Looks[]
RuPaul's Drag Race UK Season 1[]
RuPaul's Drag Race UK Season 1 Looks[]
RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race Season 2[]
RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race Season 2 Looks[]
The Boulet Brothers' Dragula Titans Season 1[]
The Boulet Brothers' Dragula Titans Season 1 Looks[]
Videos[]
Discography[]
Appearances[]
- "Drag U" (2015) by RuPaul ft. Katya
- "12 Days of Christmas" (2015) from Christmas Queens
- "Read U Wrote U" (2016) by RuPaul ft. RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars 2 Cast (Alaska, Detox, Katya, Roxxxy Andrews)
- "Thigh High" (2016) by Electric Street Queens ft. Katya from Queen Sized
- "Bossa Nova Christmas in Outer Space" (2016) by Jackie Beat, Katya from Christmas Queens 2
- "The Night Before Contact" (2017) by Trixie Mattel ft. Katya from Homemade Christmas
- "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel" (2017) by Jackie Beat, Katya from Christmas Queens 3
- "I.D.F.T. (The Secret Track)" (2021) by Leigh Allyce Canali ft. Katya from Light and Dark
- "Random Ru Girl" (2021) by Ginger Minj ft. Stacy Layne Matthews, Katya, Eureka O'Hara from Gummy Bear
Music Videos[]
- "Drag U" (2015) by RuPaul ft. Katya
- "12 Days of Christmas" (2015)
- "Thigh High" (2016) by Electric Street Queens ft. Katya
- "Come in Brazil" (2020) ft. Alaska Thunderfuck
- "Ding Dong!" (2020) ft. Trixie Mattel
- "Be Your Own Dentist" (2020)
- "Muscle Queen" (2022) by Vigiletti and Yangabang
Music[]
- Vampire Fitness (EP, 2020)
- Vampire Fitness Remixed (EP, 2021)
Filmography[]
TV[]
- (2015-2018) RuPaul's Drag Race, on Seasons 3, 7, 8, and 10
- (2015) RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked!, on season 7
- (2016) Gay for Play Game Show Starring RuPaul
- (2016-2017) Hey Qween!
- (2016) RuPaul's Drag Race: All Stars 2
- (2017) Christmas Queens
- (2017) @midnight
- (2017) Playing House
- (2017-2018) The Trixie & Katya Show
- (2018) America's Next Top Model, on Cycle 24
- (2018) Room 104
- (2019) Tales of the City
- (2019) Help Me, I'm Dying
- (2019) RuPaul's Drag Race UK, on Season 1
- (2019) Eastsiders
- (2020) AJ and the Queen
- (2020) Love, Victor, on Season 1
- (2021) Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, on Season 6
- (2021) Lucifer, on Season 6
- (2021) The Browns, on Season 2
- (2022) Ziwe, on Season 2
- (2022) Trixie Motel
- (2022) RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race, on Season 2
- (2022) Dr. Jackie: Unlicensed Psychotherapist
- (2022) Sketchy Queens
- (2022) The Boulet Brothers' Dragula: Titans
- (2023) The Boulet Brothers' Halfway to Halloween TV Special
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Movies[]
- (2016) Redmond Hand, Private Dick
- (2017) Sebastian
- (2018) Hurricane Bianca 2: From Russia with Hate
- (2018) The Quiet Room
- (2019) Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts
- (2019) The Queens
- (2019) Ru's Angels
- (2020) Possibilities
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Web Series[]
- (2015) Untucked, on Season 7
- (2015-2016) Whatcha Packin'
- (2015) Bestie$ for Ca$h
- (2015) Transformations
- (2015-2016) Katya's YouTube channel series RuFLECTIONS, RuGRETS, Irregardlessly Trish, I'm Not a Doctor with Dr. Katya, Drag 101, Total RuCall
- (2015, 2018) Fashion Photo RuView
- (2016-Present) UNHhhh
- (2017) Painted by Fame
- (2017, 2019-2022) Pit Stop
- (2019) Runway Rewind
- (2019) Exposed
- (2019-present) I Like to Watch
- (2020-present) The Bald and the Beautiful
- (2020) 10th Annual Streamy Awards
- (2021) Hot White Heist
- (2021) Out of the Closet
- (2021-2022) Trixie Cosmetics TV
- (2022) Good for You
- (2023) Sissy That Talk Show
- (2023) Sissy That Talk Show | The After Show Podcast
- (2023) I've Had It
- (2023) Just Sayin'
- (2024) That's Personal!
- (2024) Very Delta
- (2024-present) Who's the A**hole?
- (2024) Tammie Talks
- (2024) Raw & Real: The Truth Be Told
- (2024) The Comment Section
Bibliography[]
Book Title | Release Date | Cover |
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Trixie and Katya's Guide to Modern Womanhood | July 14th, 2020 | |
Working Girls: Trixie and Katya's Guide to Professional Womanhood | October 25, 2022 |
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Tours[]
Headlining[]
- (2019) Help Me, I'm Dying
- (2022-2023) Trixie & Katya Live!
- (2023-present) The Bald and the Beautiful Live
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Supporting[]
- (2015-2017) RuPaul's Drag Race: Battle of the Seasons
- (2015-2017) Christmas Queens Tour
References[]
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Winner | Violet Chachki |
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Runners-Up | 2nd & 3rd: Ginger Minj & Pearl |
Other Contestants | 4th: Kennedy Davenport • 5th: Katya (Miss Congeniality) • 6th: Trixie Mattel • 7th: Miss Fame • 8th: Jaidynn Diore Fierce • 9th: Max • 10th: Kandy Ho • 11th: Mrs. Kasha Davis • 12th: Jasmine Masters • 13th: Sasha Belle • 14th: Tempest DuJour |
Judges | RuPaul • Michelle Visage • Carson Kressley • Ross Mathews |
Pit Crew | Jason Carter • Miles Davis Moody • Bryce Eilenberg |
Winner | Alaska |
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Runners-Up | 2nd & 3rd: Detox & Katya • 4th: Roxxxy Andrews |
Other Contestants | 5th: Alyssa Edwards • 6th: Tatianna • 7th: Phi Phi O'Hara • 8th: Ginger Minj • 9th: Adore Delano (Quit) • 10th: Coco Montrese |
Judges | RuPaul • Michelle Visage • Carson Kressley • Todrick Hall • Ross Mathews |
Pit Crew | Jason Carter • Miles Davis Moody • Bryce Eilenberg |