Ravishing Russian beauties in maxim

This week the men’s magazine Maxim announced the top 100 sexiest Russian women.



In this post I will skip the places 100 to 11.

But before getting to the first 10 positions, I’d like to note that Nadezhda Tolokonnikova from “Pussy Riot” has been featured in the 18th place!

Top 10 Sexiest Russian women

10. Anna Sedokova

Anna Sedokova is originally from Ukraine. She was a member of the “golden group” in the Russian-Ukrainian pop project “VIA Gra” (from 2002 to 2004). Currently Anna lives in California where she studies acting in the Hollywood studio.



9. Tatiana Kotova

Tatiana Kotova was Miss Russia 2006 and represented Russia both in Miss World 2007 and Miss Universe 2007.
Like Anna Sedokova, Kotova also sang in “VIA Gra” in the years 2008 to 2010.


8. Irena Ponaroshku

Irena is a popular TV host. Currently she is a VJ on the channel “MTV Russia”. Her father is a former Minister of Education of Russia.


7. Liza Boyarskaya

Elizaveta Boyarskaya is an actress herself, daughter of famous Russian actors (both father and mother) and is married to an actor!


6. Irina Shayk

Irina Shayk is the famous model and does not need a special introduction for the foreign audience – since she appeared in Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2007-2012.


5. Ravshana Kurkova

Kurkova is the Russian-Uzbeki actress. Like Liza Boyarskaya she also comes from the family of actors and was married to an actor.


4. Oksana Akinshina

Akinshina is an actress. She started acting at the age of 13. Had an episodic role in the movie “The Bourne Supremacy”.



3. Natalia Vodianova

Vodianova is the Russian top-model and philanthropist. She has done catwalks for the most prestigious fashion houses and was the face of L’Oreal Paris.  This year she came in 3rd place on Forbes top-earning models list.


2. Yulia Snigir

Yulia Snigir is an actress, model and TV host. She has a pedagogical education and for some time had worked as a teacher of English language in Moscow school.



1. Vera Brezhneva

The winner – Vera Brezhneva – is a singer from Ukraine. Like the other two girls from the list she was a member of the pop-group “VIA Gra” from 2003 to 2007.

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