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Ekat Kiseleva, fashion model

Ekat Kiseleva, fashion model

Ekat Kiseleva, fashion model


Ekat Kiseleva (Her full name is Ekaterina Kiseleva) was born on February 22, 1987 in Tyumen, Siberia, Russia.
Pretty girl is a fashion model. She was discovered by a Modelscout at the age of 14 when the girl took part in a local beauty contest.
Ekaterina appeared in the music video for the song Romance by Splin.
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Anna Gorshkova, Russian actress

Anna Gorchkova, Russian actress and model

Anna Gorchkova, Russian actress and model


Anna Gorshkova is a Russian actress, who made her debut as Polina Penkova in the TV series Poor Nastya. You know, she is famous for the main role in the melodrama Passenger directed by Stanislav Govorukhin. The film received The Big Golden Rook award at the Window to Europe festival in Vyborg and other awards.
Pretty girl was born on November 28, 1983, in Moscow. Her father worked as a KGB agent. And her mother graduated from the Plekhanov Institute of National Economy but after childbirth devoted herself to her daughter. When Anna was four years old her parents divorced. The father went to the United States, and the girl stayed with her mother in Moscow.
By the way, Anna works as a model in several modeling agencies in Moscow. At the age of 14 the girl tried her hand in modeling for the first time. Actually, Gorshkova worked on the catwalks of the French capital. However, she gave up her career abroad and returned to her homeland.
In 2003, she graduated from the acting school A-Media.
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Anna Maria Urajevskaya – Vogue Beauty

Anna Maria Urajevskaya - Vogue Beauty

Anna Maria Urajevskaya – Vogue Beauty


Anna Maria Urajevskaya (Anna-Mariya Urazhevskaya) was born on February 11, 1991 in Moscow, Russia. At school she enjoyed football. World popularity came to the 15-year-old girl. She became the first model who opened a new collection of Prada and appeared on the cover of Vogue at such a young age.
Popularity came unexpectedly. Anna-Maria lived in Moscow, studied at an ordinary school, was fond of football and dogs. Cute girl helped her father, the president of the Russian Cynologists Union. One day the 8-year-old girl was noticed by Pavel Zotov, director of the IQ Models.
He liked the face of the girl, and six years later Zotov invited her to sign a contract for work in Japan. Anna-Maria worked successfully in Japan. Despite her young age, Urajevskaya was very hard-working and showed herself as a real professional.
When she was 15 years old, she was offered to open the Prada collection. It was a great honor for the little girl. As a result, she received a lot of offers from popular brands including Chanel, Givenchy, Christian Dior, Sonia Rykiel and Louis Vuitton. She was invited to IMG agency.
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Alyona Doletskaya

Alyona Doletskaya

Alyona Doletskaya


Alyona Doletskaya is an editor in chief of Interview Russia (since December 2011), and Interview Germany, former editor of Vogue Russia (from 1998 to 2010). She is a member of the jury of the national Big Book award (since 2006), and participant of the project Snob (since December 2008).
Pretty girl was born on January 10, 1955 in Moscow, USSR. Her father Stanislav Doletsky was a pediatric surgeon, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences, a member of the British Association of Pediatric Surgeons (1964) and the International Association of Surgeons (1971). Her mother was a surgical oncologist. You know, her brother is a professor, anesthesiologist. Alyona wanted to follow in her parents’ footsteps and enter medical school, but they advised to choose another profession. So, she entered the Moscow Art Theatre School, but left it.
Doletskaya graduated from the Moscow State University. After graduating from MSU Alyona taught and translated Anglo-American literature. She translated books by William Faulkner, Ray Bradbury and several Australian and New Zealand authors.
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Jules Mordovets, fashion model

Jules Mordovets, fashion model

Jules Mordovets, fashion model


Jules Mordovets is a professional fashion model, who was discovered at the age of fourteen. Her real name is Julie Mordovets.
Pretty girl was born on January 1, 1988.
She walked for many brands including Chanel, Giambattista Valli, Iceberg, John Galliano, Moschino, Rag & Bone, Rodarte, Veronique Branquinho, Vivienne Westwood, Christian Dior, Altzarra, Andrew Gn, Antonio Alvarado, Barbara Bui, Carlos Miele, Emporio Armani, Hussein Chalayan, Jose Miro, Kina Fernandez, Marc Jacobs, Marches, Max Azria, Miguel Palacio, Miss Sixty, Richard Chai, Sharon Wauchob, Sportmax, Yves Saint Laurent, Banana Republic, Gottex, Herve Leger, House of Holland, L’Wren Scott, Peter Pilotto, Rebecca Taylor, Ter et Bantine, Zac Posen, 1a Classe Alviero Martini, Ann Demeulemeester, Davidelfin, Generra, John Richmond, Luca Luca, Maurizio Pecoraro, Naeem Khan, Paul Smith, Reem Acra, Vanessa Bruno, and Oscar de la Renta, among others.
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Tatiana Zavialova, model and TV presenter

Tatiana Zavialova, model and TV presenter

Tatiana Zavialova, model and TV presenter


Tatiana Zavialova is a famous Russian model and television presenter. She began her career in 1993, becoming a prize-winner of one of the most prestigious competitions held by the Elite modeling agency.
Pretty girl was born on June 12, 1974 in Magadan into the family of a serviceman. When Tanya was 6 months old, her family moved to the town of Nikopol, then to Lutsk, Karaganda, Alma-Ata, Moscow.
In the capital, the little girl looked at the world with open eyes, and not through the prism of the monotonous and boring life of military towns. The future model was struck by what she had seen. The girl lived her usual life with little joys and insignificant problems. But beautiful celebrities including Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell and Cindy Crawford proudly looked at her from the screen of the TV and pages of glossy magazines. Tanya had a dream. The girl wanted to join her idols on the stellar Olympus.
At the age of 19, Tatiana easily won the famous contest The Look of the Year (later renamed Elite Model Look). Thanks to this victory Zavialova got a ticket to the international final, held that year in Miami. There she managed to become only the third, but the result was a triumph for the girl. To tell the truth, Tatiana became one of the first Russian girls who managed to rise so high. So, Tatiana became one of the models of the Elite agency and moved to New York.
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Elena Melnik, fashion model

Elena Melnik, fashion model

Elena Melnik, fashion model


Elena Melnik is a Russian fashion model.
Pretty girl was born in 1986 in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), Soviet Union. Like many other Russian models, the agent Giya Dzhikidze noticed the talent and interesting appearance of the girl. Elena has not yet reached such heights as Natalia Vodyanova and Irina Shayk, but she works hard.
You know, she began her career in 2005. That year she debuted on the runway as an exclusive for Calvin Klein. Also she appeared on the runway shows for Louis Vuitton, Balmain, Diane von Furstenberg, Marchesa, MaxMara, Rodarte, Trovata, and many others.
Elena’s photos were on the cover of L’Officiel. Actually, she appeared in editorials in British, German, French, Spanish, and Italian Vogue.
Awesome girl was the face of Givenchy cosmetics. By the way, she signed contract with Vera Wang, Boucheron. Also she appeared in advertisements for D&G, Lacoste, Sportmax, Joseph, and Barbara Bui.
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