Miss Grand Ukraine

Miss Grand Ukraine is a national beauty pageant title awarded to Ukrainian representatives competing at the Miss Grand International pageant.^[1][2][3] The titleholders from 2013 to 2015 were all appointed by the different franchise holders; no respective national pageant was held.^[4] Since 2016, the Miss Grand Ukraine titleholders have been elected through a national contest, Queen of Ukraine (Королева України), headquartered in Kyiv.^[1][5][6]

Miss Grand Ukraine

Formation	2013
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Kyiv (Temporarily in Wiesbaden, Germany, since 2022)
Location	Ukraine
Membership	Miss Grand International
Official language	Ukrainian
National director	Natalia Kovaleva
Parent organization	Queen of Ukraine (2016 – 2019, 2022 – Present)

Since first partaking in 2013, Ukrainian representatives secured placements in Miss Grand International five times in total,^{[7][8][9][10]} the highest position is the final 10, which was reached in 2016 and 2017.^[9][10]

History

Ukraine has always sent its representatives to compete at the Miss Grand International since 2013.^[11] Nonetheless, its first three representatives were all appointed to the title; no respective national pageant was held. In 2016, the license was transferred to Diva Fashion Group, the Queen of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Королева Украины) pageant organizer chaired by Natalia Kovaleva;^[1][5][6] the Ukrainian representatives have been selected through the mentioned national contest since then.^{[2][3][12][13]}

In 2022, due to the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War, the national contest of the Queen of Ukraine, which was usually held in Kyiv, was temporarily moved to Wiesbaden, Germany, where the pageant was organized on a smaller scale and aimed to raise funds to support displaced Ukrainian people in Germany.^[13][14] Since 2023, the titleholders were determined through virtual procedures instead of the actual pageant.^[15]

International competition

The following is a list of Ukrainian representatives at the Miss Grand International contest.

Year	Representative	Original national title	Competition performance
			Placement	Other awards
2013	Liudmyla Alexandrovna[11]	Appointed	Withdrew during the competition
2014	Nadiya Karplyuk[16]		Top 20[7]	—
2015	Anastasiia Lenna[17]		Top 20[8]	—
2016	Marina Kushnir[5][6]	Queen of Ukraine — Grand International 2016[18]	Resigned
	Veronika Mykhailyshyn[1]	Queen of Ukraine 2016[6][1]	Top 10[9]	—
2017	Snizhana Tanchuk[2]	Queen of Ukraine 2017[19]	Top 10[10]
2018	Yana Laurinaichute[3]	Queen of Ukraine 2018[3]	Unplaced[20]	—
2019	Viktoriya Myronova[12][21]	Queen of Ukraine 2019[12][21]	Unplaced[22]	—
2020–2021: No representatives
2022	Olga Vasyliv[13]	Queen of Ukraine 2022[13]	Unplaced[23]	—
2023	Julia Klimenko[24]	Queen of Ukraine 2023[24]	Top 20[25]	—
2024	Kateryna Bilyk[26]	Queen of Ukraine 2024[26]	Withdrew during the competition[27]
Color keys for the Placements at Miss Grand International   Declared as the winner   Ended as a runner-up (Top 5)   Ended as a finalist (Top 10)   Ended as a semifinalist (Top 20/21)

Gallery

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  Miss Grand Ukraine 2014
  Nadiya Karplyuk
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  Miss Grand Ukraine 2015
  Anastasiia Lenna
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  Miss Grand Ukraine 2023
  Yulia Klimenko
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  Miss Grand Ukraine 2024
  Kateryna Bilyk