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Miss Russia Pageant is a Russian beauty pageant for young women. The pageants have been running since the year 1993, however it did not take place in 1994 and 2000. Since 2007 Miss Russia finalists represent Russia in both Miss Universe and Miss World pageants. Russia has a total of 3 major international pageants winners: Miss World 1992, Miss Universe 2002 and Miss World 2008. Miss Russia 2007 Ksenia Sukhinova was declared Miss World 2008 at the grand finale in Johannesburg on 13th December, 2008.

Another big national pageant in Russia is Krasa Rossii or Beauty of Russia. Established in 1995, Krasa Rossii is a more widely-participated beauty contest. They sent Russia's candidate to Miss World until 2006. In 2009, Krasa Rossii decided to take the national directorship for Miss Earth, another big international beauty contest. Their initial candidate was Xenia Podsevatkina, a runner-up in Krasa Rossii 2009. The actual winner, Yevgenia Lapova, was not able to compete in Miss Earth due to schedule conflicts.

[edit] Winners

Year	Name	Russian name	International pageants
1993	Anna Baitchik	Анна Байчик	Miss Universe 1997
1994	no pageant
1995	Elmira Touyusheva	Эльмира Туюшева	none
1996	Alexandra Petrova	Александра Петрова	Miss Europe 1997 (Top-10), Miss Universe 1999
1997	Yelena Rogozhina	Елена Рогожина	Miss Europe 1999 (winner)
1998	Anna Malova	Анна Малова	Miss World 1994, Miss Universe 1998 (Top-10)
1999	Anna Kruglova	Анна Круглова	none
2000	no pageant
2001	Oksana Fedorova	Оксана Федорова	Miss Universe 2002 (winner but dethroned)
2002	Svetlana Koroleva	Светлана Королева	Miss Europe 2002 (winner)
2003	Victoria Lopyreva	Виктория Лопырева	none
2004	Diana Zaripova	Диана Зарипова	Miss Europe 2005
2005	Alexandra Ivanovskaya	Александра Ивановская	none
2006	Tatiana Kotova	Татьяна Котова	Miss Universe 2007, Miss World 2007
2007	Ksenia Sukhinova	Ксения Сухинова	Miss World 2008 (winner)
2008	no pageant
2009	Sofia Rudieva	София Рудьева	Miss Universe 2009

[edit] Representatives to Miss Universe

Year	Representative	Placement
1994	Inna Zobova
1995	Yulia Alekseeva
1996	Ilmira Shamsutdinova	Semi-finalist (Top 6)
1997	Anna Baychik
1998	Anna Malova	Semi-finalist (Top 10)
1999	Alexandra Petrova
2000	Svetlana Goreva
2001	Oksana Kalandyrets	Semi-finalist (Top 10)
2002	Oksana Fedorova	Miss Universe 2002 (Dethroned)
2003	Olesya Bondarenko
2004	Ksenia Kustova
2005	Natalia Nikolaeva
2006	Anna Litvinova	Semi-finalist (Top 20)
2007	Tatiana Kotova
2008	Vera Krasova	Third Runner-up (Top 5)
2009	Sofia Rudieva

Oksana Fedorova originally won the title of Miss Universe 2002, however she was later dethroned and Justine Pasek of Panama who placed first runner-up to Oksana took over the title and became Miss Universe 2002.

[edit] Representatives to Miss World

Year	Representative	Placement
1992	Julia Kourotchkina	Miss World 1992
1993	Olga Sysoeva
1994	Anna Malova
1995	Elena Bazina
1996	Victoria Tsapitsina
1997	Liudmila Popova
1998	Tatiana Mokroushina
1999	Elena Efimova
2000	Anna Bodareva
2001	Irina Kovalenko	Semi-finalist (Top 10)
2002	Anna Tatarintseva	Semi-finalist (Top 20)
2003	Svetlana Goreva
2004	Tatiana Sidorchuk	Semi-finalist (Top 15)
2005	Yulia Ivanova	Semi-finalist (Top 15)
2006	Alexandra Mazur
2007	Tatiana Kotova
2008	Ksenia Sukhinova	Miss World 2008
2009	Ksenia Shipilova	TBA

[edit] Representatives to Miss Earth

Year	Representative	Placement
2001	Victoriya Bonnya
2005	Tatyana Yamova	Semi-finalist (Top 16)
2006	Elena Salnikova
2008	Anna Mesentzeva	Semi-finalist (Top 16)
2009	Ksenia Podsevatkina	TBA

[edit] Representatives to Miss International

Year	Representative	Placement
1993	Ilmira Shamsutdinova	(1st runner-up)
1994	Yelena Gorbatcheva
1996	Yulia Ermolenko
1997	Victoriya Maloivan
1999	Maria Tchebotkevitch	(semi-finalist)
2000	Svetlana Goreva	(2nd runner-up)
2001	Tatiana Pavlova	(2nd runner-up)
2002	Kseniya Efimtseva
2003	Tatiana Chebotarevskaya	(semi-finalist)
2004	Nataliya Kolodeznikova	(semi-finalist)
2006	Yelena Vinogradova
2007	Aleksandra Mazur	(semi-finalist)
2008	Yekaterina Grushanina
2009	Kseniya Hrabovskaya