Miss Ukraine

Miss Ukraine Міс України
Formation	1991
Type	Beauty Pageant
Headquarters	32/33 Yaroslavska Street, apt. #30
Location	Kiev, Ukraine 04071
Miss Ukraine Chairman	Lilia Kuznetsova

Miss Ukraine (Міс України or Панна України, Panna Ukrayiny) is a national beauty contest in Ukraine and was first held in 1991 in the National Palace "Ukraina".^[1]

Today it is one of the top three national beauty contests in Ukraine, others being Miss Ukraine Universe and Queen of Ukraine. Miss Ukraine serves as preliminary for the Miss World and sometimes Miss International. Until 2006 it was the only national beauty contest, participants of which were qualifying for all the international pageant contests. Miss Ukraine still is the most prestigious and broadcast, however other concourses such as Miss Ukraine Universe with the help from Oleksandra Nikolayenko becomes well accepted also.

Historical overview

The first national pageant Miss Ukraine became an eighteen year old university student Olha Ovcharenko/Rechdouni, who was also a semi finalist in "Miss USSR" beauty pageant, and the first runner-up in 1990 Miss Kiev beauty pageant. The participants of Miss Ukraine would qualify to represent Ukraine on the international level such as the Big Four Pageants, Miss Intercontinental as well as continental beauty contests. Miss Universe contest usually was attended by the first runner up of Miss Ukraine. The national beauty contest was reorganized after Miss Ukraine Organization lost its franchise to one of the former pageant winners Oleksandra Nikolayenko (2001). Since 2006 Oleksandra Nikolayenko organizes Miss Ukraine Universe concourse as qualification to Miss Universe independently.

The contest takes place out of 26 candidates from all the regions of Ukriane. The major regional contests are Miss Kiev, Miss Odessa, Miss Donbass, Miss Western Ukraine and Bukovina, Miss Dnipropetrovsk, and others.

In 2002 Miss World 2002 was attended by the first runner up of Miss Ukraine Iryna Udovenko as the winner of the national contest Yelena Stohniy was over the age restriction to participate on the international level.

Since 2005 Miss Ukraine is being broadcast every year by one of the leaders of the national TV-networks Inter.

In 2010 the Ukrainian National pageant took place in fall on Saturday, September 4. The winner received a crown estimated at 250,000 euros, an automobile "Renault", and various make-up products.

Sponsors

• Pharos, a mobile media marketing company
• Stolytsia (Insurance Company)^[2]
• META.ua, an internet company
• DESSANGE

Guests and jury

Elizabeth Hurley Pamela Anderson Jean Claude van Damme Viktoria Tigipko,[3] President of Odesa International Film Festival Chris Norman Ani Lorak Taisia Povaliy Verka Serdyuchka Natalia Koroleva

Yuriy Pavlenko, Minister of Ukraine Julia Morley, President of Miss World Zhang Zilin Stas Piekha[4]

List of winners

Iryna Zhuravska

Lika Roman

Year	Name	Age	Place of residence	Runners-up	People's Choice[5]
2011[6]	Yaroslava Kuryacha[7]	19	Vinnytsia	Olena Sendetska (Kyiv) Daryna Musiyenko (Kyiv)	Marharyta Horbik (Kyiv)
2010[8]	Kateryna Zakharchenko[9][10][11][12][13][5]	21	Odessa	Natalya Sytnikova (Kramatorsk) Yulia Stratehopulo (Vinnytsya)	Hanna Rybakova (Odessa)
2009[14][15]	Yevhenia Tulchevska[16]	20	Dnipropetrovsk	Anastasia Senina (Kharkiv) Evelina Voloshyn (Alchevsk)	Anna Poslavska (Odessa)
2008[17]	Iryna Zhuravska[18]	18	Kiev	Oksana Ostrovska (Kiev) Tetyana Neustuyeva (Boryslav)	Hanna Lapenko (Luhansk)
2007[19]	Lilia Roman (Lika)	22	Uzhhorod	Hanna Hab (Cherkasy) Halyna Andreyeva (Odessa)	Halyna Andreyeva (Odessa)
2006[20][21]	Olha Shylovanova		Kharkiv	six contestants
2005	Yulia Pinchuk		Novovolynsk	five contestants
2004	Olesya Matveyeva (Lesia)		Kiev
2003	Ilona Yakovleva		Kharkiv[22]
2002	Yelena Stohniy[23]	25	Kiev	Iryna Udovenko
2001	Oleksandra Nikolayenko	20	Odessa
2000	Yulia Lineva[24]		Zaporizhia
1999	Olha Savinska		Kharkiv
1998	Olena Spirina		Kharkiv
1997	Oksana Kuzmenko		Kharkiv
1996	Natalia Shvachko[25]		Yenakieve	? Polina Voinevych[26]
1995	Vlada Kerdina		Brovary
1994	Terezia Lazarenko		Uzhhorod	? Natalya Nadtochei[27]
1993	Iryna Barabash		Kharkiv
1992	Oksana Szabo	26	Kirovohrad
1991	Olha Ovcharenko-Rechdouni		Kiev	Natalya Vorona[28]
1990	Yulia Shestopalova[29]		Mykolaiv

Other contests

• Golden Crown of Ukraine (Золота Корона України), was conducted for the first time on November 6, 2004 at the Lviv Opera Theater. The winner of the contest Yelena Klepko from Poltava won the automobile Peugeot-206, a golden crown, and the title Miss Transport of Ukraine 2004. She also was allowed to participate at the Top Model of the World contest.^[30]
• In March 2010 there took place a Miss Bukovel contest as part of popularization of the Prykarpattya ski-resort Bukovel. The contest was won by a representative from Luhansk who later participated in Miss Ukraine 2010 as Miss Bukovel.^[31]
• Throughout Ukraine take place numerous other regular regional pageant contests among such are Transcarpathian Open ( 2010), Miss Kiev City (2009), Miss Crimean Champaign (2010), Miss Sevastopol (2009, 2010), pageant contest of Chernihiv Region (1996), and others.

See also

• Miss Ukraine Universe
• Miss Ukraine Earth
• Miss Europe
• Miss World

References

1. ^ National Palace Ukraina (Ukrainian)
2. ^ List of accredited insurance companies in Ukraine
3. ^ 21-year-old citizen of Odesa becomes Miss Ukraine 2010
4. ^ Stas Piekha is a grandson of Edita Piekha
5. ^ ^{a b} 21-year-old citizen of Odesa becomes Miss Ukraine 2010
6. ^ The daughter of Chris de Burg coronated the Miss Ukraine 2011
7. ^ Miss Ukraine 2011
8. ^ A girl from Odessa won Miss Ukraine 2010
9. ^ Miss Ukraine 2010
10. ^ Miss Ukraine - Kateryna Zakharchenko (BBC, September 5, 2010)
11. ^ Miss Ukraine 2010 was won by the Odessa dame (ZIK)
12. ^ The winner of the Miss Ukraine 2010 concourse became the Odessa resident (UNIAN)
13. ^ Miss Ukraine 2010 (24tv.com video)
14. ^ 19th Miss Ukraine contest with numerous photos (Ukrainian)
15. ^ Article on globalbeauties.com (English)
16. ^ grandslampageants.com of September 2009
17. ^ 18th Miss Ukraine contest (English)
18. ^ Details on 18th contest (Ukrainian)
19. ^ 17th Miss Ukraine contest (Ukrainian)
20. ^ 17th Miss Ukraine contest (Russian)
21. ^ Miss Ukraine 2006 at segodnya.ua (Russian)
22. ^ Ilona lived Moscow, but for the contest she was from Kharkiv (Russian)
23. ^ Miss World was represented by Iryna
24. ^ 2000 contest winner
25. ^ Natalia went for Miss Universe, rather than the World
26. ^ Polian Voinevych at myspace.com
27. ^ Guests of Miss Ukraine 2010
28. ^ Miss Uzhhorod 91 and Shufrych
29. ^ The vice-Miss World 91
30. ^ Golden Crown contest
31. ^ Model agency "Koroleva" (official website)

External links

• Info on Miss Ukraine and participants of 2009 event
• Main site (Ukrainian)/(Russian)
• Miss Ukraine 2007 at natali.ua
• Official website of InterModels model agency, the agency conducts the Golden Crown of Ukraine contest
• List of miscellaneous pageant contests in Ukraine.
• List of previous winners
• Another list