Russia at major beauty pageants

This is a list of Russia's official representatives and their placements at the Big Four international beauty pageants, considered the most important in the world. The country has won two victories:

On 28 May 2002, Oxana Fedorova was crowned as Miss Universe 2002 and was dethroned on 24 September 2002 (119 days) and first runner-up Justine Pasek of Panama took over the Miss Universe title.

The criteria for the Big Four inclusion is based on specific standards such as the pageants global prominence and prestige approved by worldwide media, the quality and quantity of crowned delegates recognized by international franchisees and pageant aficionados, the winner's post pageant activities; the pageants longevity, consistency, and history; the sincerity of the pageant's specific cause, platform, and advocacy; the overall pre-pageant activities, production quality and global telecast; the enormity of internet traffic; and the extent of popularity amongst pageant fans across the globe.[1][2]

Russia's Big Four titleholders

Russia has been represented in the Big Four international beauty pageants, the four major international beauty pageants for women.[3][4] These are Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Earth.[5][6][7]

Color Key
  •      Ended as Runner-up
  •      Ended as one of the Finalists or Semi-finalists
YEAR MISS UNIVERSE MISS WORLD MISS INTERNATIONAL MISS EARTH
2020 Alina Sanko
TBA		 TBA ↑ No Pageant Held TBA
2019 × Alina Sanko
Top 12		 Mari Oreshkina Anna Baksheeva
Top 10
2018 Yulia Polyachikhina Natalya Stroeva
Top 30		 Galina Lukina Daria Kartyshova
2017 Ksenia Alexandrova Polina Popova
Top 10		 Elena Kviatkevich Lada Akimova
3rd Runner-Up
2016 Yuliana Korolkova Yana Dobrovolskaya Alisa Manenok
Top 15		 Aleksandra Cherepanova
Top 8
2015 Vladislava Evtushenko Sofia Nikitchuk
1st Runner-Up		 Valeria Kufterina Maria Chudakova
2014 Yulia Alipova Anastasiya Kostenko
Top 25		 Alina Rekko Anastasia Trusova
3rd Runner-Up
2013 Elmira Abdrazakova Elmira Abdrazakova Olga Gaidabura
Top 15		 Olesya Boslovyak
2012 Elizaveta Golovanova
Top 10		 Elizaveta Golovanova Yekaterina Meglinskaya Natalia Pereverzeva
Top 8
2011 Natalia Gantimurova Natalia Gantimurova
Top 30		 Elena Chepilchenko
Top 15		 Alena Kuznetsova
2010 Irina Antonenko
Top 15		 Irina Sharipova
Top 25		 Anna Danilova Victoria Shchukina
Top 14
2009 Sofia Rudieva Kseniya Shipilova Kseniya Hrabovskaya Kseniya Podsevatkina
2008 Vera Krasova
3rd Runner-Up		 Ksenia Sukhinova
WINNER		 Yekaterina Grushanina Anna Mezentseva
Top 16
2007 Tatiana Kotova Tatiana Kotova Alexandra Mazur
Top 15		 ×
2006 Anna Litvinova †
Top 20		 Alexandra Mazur Yelena Vinogradova Yelena Salnikova
2005 Nataliya Nikolayeva Yulia Ivanova
Top 15		 × Tatyana Yamova
Top 16
2004 Kseniya Kustova Tatyana Sidorchuk
Top 15		 Nataliya Kolodeznikova
Top 15		 ×
2003 Olesya Bondarenko Svetlana Goreva Tatiana Chebotarevskaya
Top 12		 ×
2002 Oxana Fedorova
WINNER (Dethroned)		 Anna Tatarintseva
Top 20		 Kseniya Yefimtseva ×
2001 Oksana Kalandyrets
Top 10		 Irina Kovalenko
Top 10		 Tatiana Pavlova
2nd Runner-Up		 Victoriya Bonnya
2000 Svetlana Goreva Anna Bodareva Svetlana Goreva
2nd Runner-Up		 ↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 2001 in Manila, Philippines)
1999 Alexandra Petrova Elena Yefimova Maria Tchebotkevitch
Top 15
1998 Anna Malova
Top 10		 Tatiana Mokrushina ×
1997 Anna Baychik Liudmila Popova Victoriya Maloivan
1996 Ilmira Shamsutdinova
Top 6		 Victoriya Tsapitsyna Yulia Ermolenko
1995 Yulia Alekseyeva Yelena Bazina ×
1994 Inna Zobova Anna Malova Yelena Gorbachova
1993 ↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 1952 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1960 in Florida, United States. Russia send their first delegate in 1994)		 Olga Sysoyeva Ilmira Shamsutdinova
1st Runner-Up
1992 Julia Kourotchkina
WINNER		 ↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 1960 in California, United States and then it was transferred in 1968 in Tokyo, Japan. Russia send their first delegate in 1993)
↑ No Pageant Held
(established in 1951 in London, United Kingdom. Russia send their first delegate in 1992)


Name of Pageant Placements Best Result
Miss Universe 8 Winner (2002 Dethroned)
Miss World 13 Winner (1992 • 2008)
Miss International 10 1st Runner-Up (1993)
Miss Earth 8 3rd Runner-Up (2014, 2017)
Total 37 2 TITLES

References
  1. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-10-21. Retrieved 2016-10-16.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. International Beauty Pageant Ranking
  3. Jun, Kwanwoo (2003-12-03). "Lost in Storm's Debris: A Beauty Pageant". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  4. Kenya, News (2011-07-15). "Beauty with scandals". Standard Digital News. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  5. Vietnam, News (2008-10-08). "Những scandal của Miss World". Vietnam Express. Archived from the original on November 17, 2015. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  6. Ibrahim, Lynda (2013-09-13). "The misses and missuses of the world". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 2016-09-11.
  7. Lowe, Aya (2016-01-25). "Philippines' Miss Universe returns home, ignites dreams". Channel NewsAsia. Retrieved 2016-09-11.

See also
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