Beautiful Women of Russia

When you see the term "Beautiful Russian Women", most likely what pops into your head are all the Russian women and mail order brides advertisements you see online.
(From what I can see, the Russian women dating services are extremely popular...LOL).
But the entertainment world is full of beautiful women that are Russian or of Russian descent.
For instance...
Pamela Anderson...Russian ancestry on her mother's side.
Phoebe Cates... her maternal grandmother and father were of Russian Jewish origin.
Carol Kane...her grandparents emigrated from Russia.
Mila Kunis...born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Milla Jovovich...also born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, before 1991.
Gwyneth Paltrow...her father was of Ashkenazi Russian Jewish descent.
Winona Ryder...her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Russia.
Nicole Scherzinger...her mother is Hawaiian and Russian.
Lesley Ann Warren...Her family was of Russian Jewish descent.
Natalie Wood...her parents were Russian immigrants.

And here are some more beautiful Russian woman that you may or may not have heard of...

Sasha
Russian Pop and R&B singer, model, choreographer, TV and video producer, Sasha was born in Moscow .
When she was a teen, she was a professional figure skater.
Because her father was a pilot and her mother a flight attendant, Sasha was exposed to a larger variety of music than most kids her age.
Sasha organized her first dance group at the age of fifteen, got the attention of music producer Yuri Aizenshpitz at the age of nineteen and released her first album and music video soon after.
Sasha got a lot of air-play on MTV Russia, and that lead to her starring in her own reality show in MTV Russia, Girl Power.
In spite of her tremendous success in the Russian music industry, she still hasn't won a MTV Russia Music Award.

Maria Sharapova
Former Women's Tennis Association Number 1 ranked player and three time Grand Slam singles champion Maria Sharapova was born on April 19, 1987 in Nyagan in Siberia, Russia.
Besides tennis, Maria is a United Nations Development Project Goodwill Ambassador.
She was the most searched-for athlete on Yahoo! in both 2005 and 2008.

Anna Kournikova
Retired Russian professional tennis player and model Anna Kournikova was born on June 7, 1981 in Moscow.
As a singles player, she reached WTA World No. 8 in the world in 2000, and as a doubles player, she has reached World No. 1 player, with Martina Hingis as her partner.
"Kournikova"is one of the most common search strings on the Internet search engine Google.

Natalia Vodianova
Russian model, actress and philanthropist Natalia Vodianova was born on February 28th, 1982 in Gorky, Russian SSR, Soviet Union.
Nnatalia enrolled in a modeling academy when she was fifteen, and by seventeen, she was living in Paris and signed with Viva Model Management.
Between 2006 and 2009, she was the seventh highest paid model in the world, coming in at around fifteen million in those three years.

Oksana Pochepa
Russian pop singer and model, Oksana Pochepa, was born on July 20th, 1984 in Rostov-on-Don.
She started her music career when she was thirteen.

Ksenia Sukhinova
Beautiful Ksenia Sukhinova not only won the title of Miss Russia in 2007, but she went on to win the 2008 Miss World beauty pageant.
(She missed the 2008 Miss Universe because of school work)
She was born on August 26, 1987, in Nizhnevartovsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.

Sofia Rudieva
Russian model and beauty queen Sofia Rudieva won the Miss Russia 2009 beauty pageant.
She was born on November 15th, 1990 in Saint Petersburg, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
When Sofia won the Miss Russia title, she donated most of the $100,000 prize money to charity for helping homeless animals.

Irina Sheik
Fashion model Irina Sheik was born Irina Shaykhlislamova on January 6th, 1986 in Yemanzhelinsk, Russia.
Irina has appeared on the covers of Annabelle, Jalouse, Bolero and she has appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue three times.

Natasha Poly
Russian model Natasha Poly was born Natalia Polevshchikova on July 12th, 1985 in Perm, Russia.
She has worked for brands like Lanvin, Roberto Cavalli, Dolce & Gabbana and Versace.
Natasha is five foot, ten inches tall.