Formation | 2017 |
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Type | Beauty pageant |
Headquarters | Cheboksary |
Location | |
Membership | Miss Grand International |
Official language | Russian |
National director | Vladimir Ilyin |
Parent organization | Volga Models (2018 – 2019) |
Miss Grand Tatarstan is a female beauty pageant title awarded to Tatar representatives competing in the Miss Grand International contest. [1] [2] From 2017 to 2018, the franchise of Miss Grand International for Tatarstan belonged to the Miss Tourism Russia pageant, [3] [4] [5] which is organized by a Cheboksary-based modeling agency headed by Vladimir Ilyin, Volga Models. [3] [6]
The first Tatar at Miss Grand International was a Khabarovsk-based model, Aigul Zaripova, assigned in 2017; [1] however, Aigul didn't place at the Miss Grand International 2017 semifinals held in Vietnam. [7] Later in 2018, the winner of Miss Tourism Russia 2017, Zulfiya Sharafeeva, [4] [8] was assigned by the mentioned organizer to partake in the 2018 edition of Miss Grand International in Myanmar, [9] but Zulfiya also was unplaced. [10] Zulfiya was the last Tatar representative to compete in Miss Grand International.
The following is a list of Tatar representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.
Year | Representative | Original national title | Result | National director | |
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2017 | Aigul Zaripova [1] [2] Айгуль Зарипова | Miss Tatarstan 2013 Finalist [11] | Unplaced [7] | Vladimir Ilyin | |
2018 | Zulfiya Sharafeeva [9] Зульфия Шарафеева | Miss Tourism Russia 2017 [4] | Unplaced [10] | ||
No representatives since 2019 |
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