# Miss Ukraine 2016

Miss Ukraine 2016, the 26th edition of the Miss Ukraine pageant was held at the October Palace in Kyiv on 2 September 2016. Twenty-five contestants from across Ukraine competed for the crown. The competition was hosted by Yuriy Horbunov and Kateryna Osadcha. Khrystyna Stoloka of Kyiv crowned her successor Oleksandra Kucherenko of Dnipro at the end of the event. Kucherenko represented Ukraine at the Miss World 2016 pageant where she unplaced.

## Results

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### Placements

| Placement | Contestant |
| Miss Ukraine 2016 | Dnipropetrovsk Oblast – Oleksandra Kucherenko |
| Miss International Ukraine 2016 | Odesa Oblast – Viktoriya Kiose |
| Miss Earth Ukraine 2016 | Vinnytsia Oblast – Alyona Bielova |
| 1st Runner-Up | Kyiv Oblast – Darina Buyanova |
| 2nd Runner-Up | Donetsk Oblast – Valeriya Shatska |
| Top 6 | Chernivtsi Oblast – Kateryna Kalchenko |
| Top 12 | Vinnytsia Oblast – Nina Krokhmalyuk  Mykolaiv Oblast – Anastasiya Kuzevich  Zaporizhia Oblast – Kateryna Levochko  Kyiv Oblast – Maryna Leonova  Odesa Oblast – Alla Merzhan  Zhytomyr Oblast – Maryna Yarosh |

### Special Awards

| Award | Contestant |
| Miss People's Choice | Chernivtsi Oblast – Alina Anel |
| Miss Online | Odesa Oblast – Viktoriya Kiose |
| Miss IV Seasons | Vinnytsia Oblast – Alyona Bielova |

## Contestants

| No. | Name | Age | Representing |
| 1 | Alina Anel | 23 | Chernivtsi Oblast |
| 2 | Liubov Bakay | 20 | Lviv Oblast |
| 3 | Tetiana Bakulina | 22 | Poltava Oblast |
| 4 | Alyona Bielova | 21 | Vinnytsia Oblast |
| 5 | Anna Bondar | 24 | Kyiv Oblast |
| 6 | Darina Buyanova | 18 | Kyiv Oblast |
| 7 | Anastasiya Hrin | 18 | Zaporizhzhia Oblast |
| 8 | Kateryna Kalchenko | 21 | Chernivtsi Oblast |
| 9 | Viktoriya Kiose | 23 | Odesa Oblast |
| 10 | Anastasiya Klovanych | 19 | Lviv Oblast |
| 11 | Nina Krokhmalyuk | 21 | Vinnytsia Oblast |
| 12 | Anastasiya Kuzevich | 23 | Mykolaiv Oblast |
| 13 | Oleksandra Kucherenko | 18 | Dnipropetrovsk Oblast |
| 14 | Kateryna Levochko | 17 | Zaporizhzhia Oblast |
| 15 | Maryna Leonova | 23 | Kyiv Oblast |
| 16 | Alla Merzhan | 21 | Odesa Oblast |
| 17 | Diana Peresta | 19 | Zakarpattia Oblast |
| 18 | Daria Polishchuk | 18 | Vinnytsia Oblast |
| 19 | Anna Ponochevna | 18 | Kyiv Oblast |
| 20 | Alina Rabcheniuk | 20 | Rivne Oblast |
| 21 | Valeriya Rudenko | 21 | Donetsk Oblast |
| 22 | Yulia Sidorenko | 18 | Kharkiv Oblast |
| 23 | Andriana Turkevych | 19 | Zakarpattia Oblast |
| 24 | Valeriya Shatska | 22 | Donetsk Oblast |
| 25 | Maryna Yarosh | 18 | Zhytomyr Oblast |

## Jury

* Oleg Verniaiev – Ukrainian gymnast, Olympic champion at Rio 2016 Olimpics
* Vlada Litovchenko – public figure, model, "Miss Ukraine 1995", PhD in History
* Vladimir Goryansky – People's Artist of Ukraine, film and theater actor
* Alina Baykova – top model, businesswoman
* Olga Vnukova – TV presenter, model, editor-in chief of "Most beautiful Ukrainian women"
* Julia Aysina – designer, founder of the brand AYSINA
* Dmitry Komarov – journalist, photographer, author and host of "World Inside Out" on 1+1 TV Channel
* Andre Tan – fashion designer, inventor of Smart Couture style
* Ana Varava – chief-editor of L'Officiel-Ukraine magazine
* Elizaveta Chepel – casting director of the National Committee of Miss Ukraine