Polina Alexeyevna Popova (; born 1 June 1995) is a Russian model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned
Miss Russia 2017. She represented Russia at the
Miss World 2017 competition, where she placed in the Top 10.
Early life
Popova was born in
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...
. She works as a model, and in addition to Russian, she can speak fluent English and Chinese. Prior to Miss Russia, Popova was studying at
Moscow State University
Moscow State University (MSU), officially M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University,. is a public university, public research university in Moscow, Russia. The university includes 15 research institutes, 43 faculties, more than 300 departments, a ...
, with plans to become a journalist.
Personal life
She has a boyfriend however she did not want to talk about her personal life because she is a really private person. They married on February 11, 2020. On May 25, 2020, she gave birth to her child named Alexander.
Pageantry
Miss Russia 2017
Popova represented
Sverdlovsk Oblast
Sverdlovsk Oblast ( rus, Свердловская область, Sverdlovskaya oblastʹ, p=svʲɪrdˈlofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subject (an oblast) of Russia located in the Ural Federal District. Its administrative center is the c ...
in the
Miss Russia 2017 pageant; it was her first ever pageant. She went on to win the competition, winning
₽
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3,000,000, a
Hyundai Solaris
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, and the opportunity to study at any university in the world. Her runners-up were
Ksenia Alexandrova of Moscow and Albina Akhtyamova of
Bashkortostan
Bashkortostan, officially the Republic of Bashkortostan, sometimes also called Bashkiria, is a republic of Russia between the Volga river and the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe. The republic borders Perm Krai to the north, Sverdlovsk Oblast ...
.
Miss World 2017
Popova represented Russia in the
Miss World 2017 competition, where she placed in the Top 10.
References
External links
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1995 births
Living people
People from Yekaterinburg
Russian beauty pageant winners
Russian female models
Miss Russia winners
Miss World 2017 delegates