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Victoria Gerasimova, Russian actress

Victoria Gerasimova, Russian actress

Victoria Gerasimova, Russian actress


Victoria Gerasimova is a Russian actress and model, and more recently she opened her own atelier. She became popular as a VJ, who worked on MTV-Russia channel.
Pretty girl was born on May 9, 1979 in Zvolen (Czechoslovakia) into a military family. Soon after her birth, the parents returned to Kaliningrad. There Victoria finished school and entered the branch of the Moscow GITIS (Russian Academy of Theatre Arts), which was organized at the Kaliningrad Theater.
After graduation from the University in 2001 Gerasimova moved to Moscow. There she worked as a host of various television programs, starred in commercials.
Lev Novozhenov and Victoria were presenters of the project The Question. Another Guestion.
In 2005 she was awarded Best Female Person of The Year at the International Advertising Festival for a series of Dirol’s commercials.
Since 2004 Victoria acted in films, mostly in the TV series. The actress played Marina in the film The Strike of the Lotus-4, the investigator Alisa Tomilina in the Criminal Games, croupier Sveta in the Formula Zero. Then she got the roles in the melodramas My General and Guardian Angel.
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Ksenia Borodina

Ksenia Borodina - TV presenter

Ksenia Borodina – TV presenter


Ksenia Borodina is a presenter of the reality show Dom-2 (since May 11, 2004, together with Ksenia Sobchak) and host of the show Reset (May 16, 2012 – July 2013) on TNT channel. Also she is an actress.
Xenia Amoeva (her real name) was born on March 8, 1983 in Moscow. Her father is Armenian and mother is Russian. When she was a one-year-old child, her parents divorced. After the divorce, Ksyusha’s mother married an Italian architect and moved to his homeland.
The girl spent her childhood with grandparents, every year visiting parents in Italy. Once for the bad behavior, parents sent her to study in an English school. But Ksenia did not like England and returned to Russia. You know, she has two brothers: Roman and Nikita.
The girl studied at the Institute of Hotel Management and Tourism in Moscow.
Since her childhood she dreamed of becoming a TV presenter. Ksenia sent her CV and suddenly got an invitation to be a presenter of the reality show Dom-2.
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Ksenia Alferova

Ksenia Alferova - Russian actress

Ksenia Alferova – Russian actress


Ksenia Alferova is a Russian actress whose first role was in the film The Woman in White (1981), where Abdulov played the main role.
Pretty girl was born on May 24, 1974 into the family of popular theater and film actress Irina Alferova and Bulgarian Ambassador Boyko Gyurov. Alferova went with her husband to Bulgaria, but did not want to live there, so the couple soon divorced. When the girl was two years old, her mother married the sex symbol of Soviet cinema Alexander Abdulov. He adopted the girl. You know, Ksenia met her biological father in adulthood when she went to Bulgaria.
At first the future actress chose another career. In 1992 she entered the Moscow State Law Academy, but then she graduated from the Art Theatre School.
The first notable role was in the popular TV series Moscow Windows.
From 2000 to 2001 she was a Vladimir Markin’s co-host of the TV show Bingo.
The girl played the lead role in the film St. Petersburg-Cannes Express directed by American director John Daly. By the way, Ksenia played her role in English. Young actress starred along with English actor Nolan Hammings.
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Svetlana Galka – parody actress

Svetlana Galka - parody actress

Svetlana Galka – parody actress


Svetlana Galka is a Russian parody actress. She was born on April 20, 1976 in Gavrilov-Yam, Yaroslavl region, USSR.
Sveta Galenysheva (her real name) studied at the Faculty of Philology of the Yaroslavl Pedagogical Institute, graduated from the Acting Department of the Yaroslavl Theatre Institute.
After her arrival to Moscow Svetlana along with producer Maxim Kuznetsov created parody program I Haven’t Any Complexes.
You know, Svetlana is a winner of the international contest Pilar (2006, 2007).
Later she worked as a TV reporter on different channels: Russia channel – the program Vesti-Moscow, Culture channel, as well as a news presenter on Capital channel. She starred in many programs. Now she is an actress of the TV show Big Difference. By the way, she has been working in this show for more than 5 years.
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Igor and Grishka Bogdanoff – fashion victims

Igor and Grishka Bogdanoff

Igor and Grishka Bogdanoff – fashion victims


Twin brothers Igor and Grishka Bogdanoff (or Bogdanov) are famous French celebrities. They are often called freaks, not only for their scientific machinations, but also for their specific appearance. According to rumors, numerous plastic surgeries caused facial deformities.
The boys were born in 1949 in France. They claim that their parents came from aristocratic Russian and Austrian families, and that their maternal grandfather was African-American tenor Roland Hayes.
More than 30 years ago, they were widely known in France as TV hosts. Their shows like Temps X (and more recently Rayons X) were about popular science and science fiction, space, distant stars, aliens and attracted a large number of viewers.
The career of Bogdanov brothers before plastics was connected with a grandiose scandal. The book God and Science, which became a bestseller in France, was criticized by the American cosmologist. The Bogdanovs were accused of plagiarism, ignorance of the elementary foundations of physics and mathematics, and the success of the book was explained by skillful juggling with complex scientific terms. The scandal was hushed up, and in 1998 the brothers defended their Ph.D. theses and continued to be engaged in pseudo-scientific research.
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Yuliya Menshova, actress and TV presenter

Yuliya Menshova, actress and TV presenter

Yuliya Menshova, actress and TV presenter


Yuliya Menshova is a Soviet and Russian actress and TV presenter. She is known as Vera Bolshova in the TV series Balzac Age, or All Men Are Bast…
Pretty girl was born on July 28, 1969 in Moscow into the family of actress Vera Alentova and film director Vladimir Menshov.
In 1990 Yuliya graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School. From 1990 to 1994 she worked as an actress in the troupe of the Moscow Art Theatre.
Working in the theater, Menshova began to act in films. Her first role was in the movie Act, Manya. In 1994, the actress suddenly decided to change her professional career, despite the fact that the career in the theater and in films developed quite successfully.
After a long break Yulia starred in the popular TV series Balzac Age in 2004. Alika Smekhova, Zhanna Epple, Lada Dance, Vera Alentova, Andrei Sokolov also played in the series.
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Alexander Litvinenko, professional dancer

Alexander Litvinenko, professional dancer

Alexander Litvinenko, professional dancer


Alexander Litvinenko was born on May 28, 1972 in Donetsk, USSR, where he lived until 1988. Then he moved to Moscow.
You know, he never thought that his life would be connected with Ballroom Dancing and Choreography as he always thought that he would be an ornithologist or a biologist.
One day, at the age of 13, his schoolmate invited him to dancing school.
In 1988-1993 Litvinenko became the winner of numerous Amateur Latin and Ballroom Dance Competitions and Championships. And in 1993 Alexander moved to professionals.
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