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Hours of intense competition, catwalking and dress-changing paid off for Kharkiv native beauty Karina Zhironkina on March 31.

She was picked as the nation’s beauty queen among 27 contenders.

The 21-year-old aspiring interior designer will now represent Ukraine in Miss World competition, which is scheduled to take place in Ordos, Inner Mongolia China, on July 20.