Miss USSR

Miss USSR
Мисс CCCP
Formation	1989
Dissolved	1991
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Moscow
Location	Soviet Union
Membership	Miss Universe Miss World Miss International
Official language	Russian

Miss USSR (Russian: Мисс CCCP) was a national beauty contest held in the Soviet Union. It ran for three years from 1989 through to the dissolution of the Union in 1991.^[1]

Titleholders

Year	Miss USSR	Hometown	Notes
1991	Ilmira Shamsutdinova	Saratov, Russian SFSR	Top 6, Miss Universe 1996 (as Miss Russia)
1990	Yulia Lemigova	Moscow, RSFSR	2nd runner-up, Miss Universe 1991
1990	Maria Kezha	Vitebsk, Byelorussian SSR	Dethroned following marriage decision
1989	Yulia Sukhanova	Moscow, Russian SFSR

Representatives at International Beauty Pageants

Representatives at Miss Universe

Year	Miss Universe USSR	Placement	Special Awards
1990	Evia Staļbovska	Unplaced
1991	Yulia Lemigova	2nd Runner-Up

Representatives at Miss World

Year	Miss World USSR	Placement	Special Awards
1989	Anna Gorbunova	Unplaced	Miss Photogenic
1990	Lauma Zemzare	Unplaced

Representatives at Miss International

Year	Miss International USSR	Placement	Special awards
1990	Irina Vassilenko	3rd Runner-Up

Representatives at Miss Charm International

Year	Miss Charm USSR	Placement	Special awards
1989	Olga Perminova	Top 16
1990	Mariya Smirnova	Unplaced

References

^ MISS USSR, MISS CIS at pageantopolis.com

Miss Universe participant countries and territories

Active
(1952–present)

Africa	Angola Botswana Cameroon Cote d'Ivoire Democratic Republic of the Congo Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Guinea Kenya Mauritius Namibia Nigeria Senegal Somalia South Africa Tanzania Zambia Zimbabwe
Americas	Argentina Aruba Bahamas Belize Bolivia Bonaire Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Curaçao Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Honduras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Lucia Suriname Trinidad and Tobago Turks and Caicos Uruguay United States US Virgin Islands Venezuela
Asia	Bahrain Bangladesh Cambodia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Iraq Israel Japan Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Macau Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Pakistan Philippines Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Thailand United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam
Europe	Albania Armenia Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Gibraltar Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Latvia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	Australia Fiji New Zealand Samoa

Inactive since 2024 (under JKN Metaverse Inc.)

Africa	Benin (1962) Ethiopia (2017) Eswatini (1994) Gabon (2015) Gambia (1986) Ghana (2022) Lesotho (1978) Liberia (1977) Madagascar (1961) Morocco (2021) Réunion (1986) Seychelles (2022) Sierra Leone (2019) Tunisia (1971)
Americas	Antigua and Barbuda (2008) Barbados (2020) Bermuda (1997) Dominica (1985) French Guiana (1984) Greenland (1990) Grenada (1964) Haiti (2022) Saint Kitts and Nevis (1981) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (2006) Sint Maarten (2006)
Asia	Bhutan (2022) Chinese Taipei (2004) Jordan (1960)
Europe	Austria (2017) Azerbaijan (2013) Georgia (2019) Lithuania (2019) Luxembourg (1994) Sweden (2021)
Oceania	American Samoa (1978) Cook Islands (1999) Guam (2019) New Caledonia (1982) Northern Marianas (2006) Papua New Guinea (1986) Tahiti (1985) Vanuatu (1978)

Inactive territories and dependencies
(1952–2006)

Constituent countries of Great Britain (began 1992, using Great Britain sash at Miss Universe)	England (1955–1990) Scotland (1961–1990) Wales (1961–1990)
Prefecture of Japan	Okinawa (1963–1968)
Bantustans of South Africa	Bophuthatswana (1979) Transkei (1979–1983)
States of the United States	Alaska (1952–1958) Hawaii (1952–1959)
Former entities (1952–2006)	Commonwealth of Independent States (1992) Czechoslovakia (1970–1992) Micronesia (1975) Southern Rhodesia (1961) Serbia and Montenegro (2003–2006) (1990–1991) West Indies (1954–1958) Yugoslavia (1968–2002)

Miss World participant countries and territories

Active
(1951–present)

Africa	Angola Botswana Cameroon Cote d'Ivoire Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Mauritius Morocco Namibia Nigeria Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Tanzania Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Americas	Argentina Belize Bolivia Brazil Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Curaçao Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela
Asia	Bangladesh Cambodia China India Indonesia Iraq Japan Korea Laos Lebanon Macau Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Thailand Vietnam
Europe	Albania Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark England Estonia Finland France Germany Gibraltar Greece Hungary Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Romania Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Turkey Ukraine Wales
Oceania	Australia New Zealand

Inactive since 2023 (first edition after the COVID-19 pandemic)

Africa	Algeria (2002) Cape Verde (2017) Chad (2014) Democratic Republic of the Congo (2016) Egypt (2018) Equatorial Guinea (2021) Eswatini (2009) Gabon (2015) Gambia (1986) Malawi (2012) Rwanda (2021) São Tomé and Príncipe (2014) Seychelles (2017)
Americas	Antigua and Barbuda (2019) Aruba (2019) Bahamas (2021) Barbados (2019) Bermuda (2015) Bonaire (2012) British Virgin Islands (2019) Cuba (1975) Dominica (2013) Grenada (2007) Montserrat (1964) Saint Barthelemy (2011) Saint Kitts and Nevis (2015) Saint Lucia (2021) Sint Maarten (2021) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1994) Suriname (2012) Turks and Caicos (2004) US Virgin Islands (2019)
Asia	Chinese Taipei (2013) Hong Kong China (2019) Israel (2017) Jordan (1981) Kyrgyzstan (2019) Syria (1966) Uzbekistan (2013)
Europe	Andorra (2003) Armenia (2021) Austria (2018) Belarus (2019) Cyprus (2018) Georgia (2019) Greenland (1992) Iceland (2021) Kosovo (2014) Lithuania (2014) Luxembourg (2021) Monaco (1955) Russia (2019) Switzerland (2014)
Oceania	Cook Islands (2019) Fiji (2017) French Polynesia (2010) Guam (2018) Northern Marianas (2003) Papua New Guinea (1990) Samoa (2015) Tonga (1986)

Inactive non-existing countries and former territories and others
Africa South (Miss South Africa for Blacks) (1976) Czechoslovakia (1992) Hawaii (2001) Guernsey (1975) Isle of Man (1988) Jersey (1981) Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1965) Serbia and Montenegro (2005) Tanganyika (1960) United Kingdom (1999) (competed as England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales) (1990) Yugoslavia (2002)

Miss International participant countries and territories

Active
(1960–present)

Africa	Angola Cape Verde Cote d'Ivoire Ethiopia Ghana Lesotho Mauritius Namibia Nigeria Sierra Leone South Africa South Sudan Togo Tunisia Equatorial Guinea Uganda Zimbabwe
Americas	Argentina Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Martinique Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico United States Venezuela
Asia	Bangladesh Cambodia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan Korea Laos Macau Malaysia Kyrgyzstan Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Pakistan Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Taiwan Thailand Vietnam
Europe	Albania Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Ireland Italy Lithuania Luxembourg Moldova Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovakia Spain Ukraine United Kingdom
Oceania	Australia Hawaii New Zealand

Inactive since 2024

Africa	Burkina Faso (2019) Cameroon (2019) Democratic Republic of the Congo (1987) Egypt (2018) Gabon (2014) Liberia (2019) Madagascar (2018) Morocco (2019) Republic of the Congo (2008) Kenya (2022) Senegal (2004) Seychelles (1995) Sudan (2009) Tanzania (2011) Zambia (2019)
Americas	Aruba (2019) Bahamas (2010) Belize (2019) Bermuda (1971) Curaçao (2018) Guadeloupe (2019) Guyana (2014) Suriname (2013) Trinidad and Tobago (2011) Uruguay (1999) US Virgin Islands (2012)
Asia	Israel (2014) Jordan (1963) Lebanon (2018) Uzbekistan (2022)
Europe	Armenia (2019) Austria (1994) Belarus (2022) Croatia (2003) Cyprus (2006) Georgia (2014) Gibraltar (2017) Hungary (2018) Iceland (2013) Kazakhstan (2005) Latvia (2012) Malta (2004) North Macedonia (2002) Russia (2019) San Marino (2001) Serbia (2014) Sweden (2019) Switzerland (1993) Turkey (2015)
Oceania	Cook Islands (2018) Fiji (1996) Guam (2019) Tahiti (2019) Northern Marianas (2022) New Caledonia (2006) Palau (2001)

Inactive non-existing countries and former territories
Borneo (1960) Czechoslovakia (1992) England (1986) Latin Mexico (Ethnic Representation) (2003) Malaya (1962) Native American (Ethnic Representation) (2003) Scotland (1986) Serbia and Montenegro (2006) South Pacific (Ethnic Representation) (1960) (1990) Wales (1986) West Indies (1965) Yugoslavia (2002)