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Anne Vyalitsyna

Anna Vyalitsina Anna V

Anne Vyalitsyna

Anne Vyalitsyna is a famous Russian and American top model. In Europe, she is also known as Anne V. Blond beauty is one of the three V: Vodianova, Volodina and Vyalitsyna, Russian supermodels who conquered the international fashion industry.
Anna Vyalitsina was born on March 19, 1986 in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod) into the family of doctors. Her father worked as a doctor in the football club, and her mother was a pediatrician. But even as a child she did not want to walk in the footsteps of her parents. Cute girl dreamed of becoming a model.
“I’ve wanted to be a model ever since I was little, playing with my Barbie doll,” she told. “It helped (for the catwalk) that I can dance, but everything is self-taught.”
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Eugenia Volodina – Russian model

Eugenia Volodina

Eugenia Volodina – Russian model

Eugenia Volodina is a Russian top model, one of the most successful models of the first half of the 2000s.
Evgeniya Volodina was born on September 17, 1984 in Kazan. Pretty girl began her modeling career in 1998. Volodina took part in the casting, organized by one of the Russian modeling agencies, and in 2000 was invited to Paris. Successful international modeling career began in 2001, when she took part in more than 20 shows in the framework of the Paris and Milan fashion weeks. Later Volodina was invited by the famous photographer Steven Meisel for a photo session for the Italian Vogue magazine. In the same year, she paired with Natalia Vodianova, had signed a contract with Gucci.
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Oxana Fedorova – Miss Universe 2002

Oxana Fedorova - Miss Universe 2002

Oxana Fedorova – Miss Universe 2002

Oxana Fedorova is a Russian TV presenter, winner of the Miss St. Petersburg (1999), Miss Russia (2001) and Miss Universe (2002), model, actress, singer former police officer and university lecturer. In fact, she became the first Miss Russia to win the Miss Universe contest.
Oksana Gennadievna Fedorova was born on December 17, 1977 in Pskov. The father was a nuclear physicist, and the mother worked as a nurse at a psychiatric hospital. Her parents divorced when she was three years old and the girl was brought up by her mother.
Pretty girl graduated from the Pskov secondary special police school with a gold medal in 1997 and worked as an investigator for several months. In the same year, she entered the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. After graduation she worked as an investigator in Pulkovo airport. At the police academy, Fedorova played the saxophone as a member of the brass band.
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Inna Zobova – French model from Russia

Inna Zobova – French model from Russia

Inna Zobova – French model from Russia


Inna Zobova is a Russian model, actress, and former beauty pageant titleholder. She is best known as the face of the Wonderbra brand. Pretty girl worked for such modeling agencies as Storm Models (London), Viva Models (Paris), Viev Models (Spain), Yuil Models. By the way, Inna was chosen Miss Russia 1994.
Zobova was born on October 1, 1976 in Khimki, Russia. The girl was born with a hole in the heart (congenital heart disease), and at the age of six she underwent surgery to correct it. After the surgery Inna was banned from playing sports, and she had to give up her dream of becoming a ballerina and study biology to become a veterinarian.
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Top Model winner – Maria Lesovaya

Maria Lesovaya

Maria Lesovaya – Top Model Russian-style winner


Maria Lesovaya (born in 1990) is a model, blogger and food expert, who until 2010 was a simple student of the Faculty of Psychology from Ekaterinburg. At the age of 21, she took part in the TV project Top Model in Russian (or Top Model Russian-style, first season) on Muz TV channel – the adaptation of American show Top Model American-style (America’s Next Top Model). 17 beautiful Russian girls competed for a few months to be called the first top model in Russia. But the jury chose the only one… Short-haired blonde in torn sneakers, “pretty darling girl” with bruises on her legs was the first. Pretty girl proved that the secret of success is in individuality and purposefulness.
Masha’s parents have nothing to do with the fashion industry. Nevertheless, they always supported their daughter in all undertakings and watched Top Model in Russian.
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Katya Sambuka

Katya Sambuka

Katya Sambuka


Katya Sambuka is a star of show business, actress, model, DJ and TV presenter. Beautiful girl became a prototype of the British Bobby doll in 2006, when she was 15 years old. Nicole Kidman, Jessica Alba and Avril Lavigne also were among the prototypes.
Ekaterina Dolgova, better known under the pseudonym Katya Sambuka, was born in St. Petersburg in August 1991 into a simple family. Her father worked as a builder, and her mother was a housewife, a former gymnast. According to the girl, she has Swedish-Estonian roots.
After the 8th grade Katya entered the local culinary lyceum, but could not get an education. To tell the truth, she was excluded after the 1st course because of the scandalous program about the porn industry. So, the girl did not get secondary education. While still studying Dolgova had practiced at the restaurant Liverpool. According to Katya, she met the soloist of Rolling Stones Mick Jagger who invited pretty girl to go with him to America.
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Regina Zbarskaya – Russian Sophia Loren

Regina Zbarskaya – Russian Sophia Loren

Regina Zbarskaya (1935, Leningrad — 1987, Moscow) – Russian Sophia Loren


Regina Zbarskaya, one of the first Soviet Union models, was famous for her beauty and scandalous rumors about numerous lovers. Soviet fashion model became world famous in the early 60-ies. Awesome Regina gained great popularity in Paris, where she was called the most beautiful weapon of the Kremlin, later she was called Soviet Sophia Loren.
Regina Nikolayevna Zbarskaya was born on September 27, 1935 in Vologda (according to another source Leningrad region).
In 1953, seventeen-year-old Regina Kolesnikova came to Moscow and entered the VGIK, the Faculty of Economics. During her studies, she began to visit bohemian parties, where one day she was noticed by well-known Vera Aralova. As a result of that meeting Regina started her modeling career. Bright brunette with a beautiful face and gentle manners immediately attracted attention. She became the queen of the catwalk.
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