Kazakhstan beauty contest was held in Almaty on June 19 as usual on the main stage of the country,  and this year it was organized by the Republican model center "Sanbel Kazakhstan". Mayor of the City has fixed his patronage on all this action. It is also worth mentioning: the special participation of the chairman of the Committee on Culture Ministry now with a very long (almost unprintable) title Dusen Kaseinov in the organization of the contest.

It is worth to stay silent about the information support, with barely concealed cunning Asian smile. After all, only our mass media, all without exception, "support" (advertise) this action, of course competing. That generally can not be found in any country in the world (at least, we wanted to be so).

The Premium elephants became, as expected,the outcome of the show number one. Maria Nikiforova, a 17-year-old model from the agency "Sanbel" got the third, I remind. She is now working in Moscow on contract with the Russian Red Stars. Irina Alekseeva was the next among the winners (also Sanbel "). The contract with the Spanish agency Elite suddenly fell on the head of a beauty.

First prize, which in some places can be called nothing other than the Grand Prix, got to the tenacious embraces of just Miss KZ, totally unprofessional model (now it can be called with that prof-word with the letter "m" - a girl from the street (obviously, the happy one) Dana Tolesh. Now she is enslaver of the main runway of the republic and according to the contract she is  involved in various social and cultural actions. She received one of the roles in the new film of Talgat Temenov where, therefore, is acting.

What was the difference between this year show and previous ones? It had intelligence and wit?  Right, and this, too. First of all, it covered (a word, what a word!) all Kazakhstan for the first time. According to the assurances of representatives "Sanbel" there was not one more or less attractive creature, vaguely similar to Eve, left without prying evaluating and often male eye. In the country, there was a wave of 14 regional finals, each of which elected his own miss. Later in the Alma-Ata there was the final casting, after which 50 lucky women reached the final finals. By the way, more than 75 thousand (!) Beauties participated in the competition during the selection process all over Kazakhstan.

Guest music stand was deliberately modest (such is the policy of this year, and maybe not only that, it's not an international competition of the singers-soundtrackers), so let’s say a few words about the guests-professionals. And the representatives of the Paris branch of the agency Elite, Muscovites of Red Stars, editor of Cosmopolitan and Top Model and Galina Murashkina private and a separate person with the collection of "Hollywood Lights," which was demonstrated by our girls, deserve them.

From March the next year, the organizers, as they have to, will arrange a casting all over multinational steppe country, and later promise to get to the neighbors - Uzbeks, Kyrgyz and Turkmen (if available).

Dana Tolesh. Kazakh beauty contest. / / VIP persona. № 6, 1998

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