Wikipedia:Julia Kourotchkina

Julia Alexandrovna Kourotchkina (Юлия Александровна Курочкина; born 10 August 1974 in Shcherbinka, Russia) is a Russian actress, model and a winner on the beauty contests Miss Russia 1992 and Miss World 1992 in Sun City, South Africa She is the first delegate of Russia in Miss World after the fall of the USSR in 1991, though she was only appointed as the Russian delegate as the Russian organizer Zodiac M has budget issues at that time. In the Miss World 1992 she is the tallest delegate at 6'1" and in the Preliminaries she barely made it as the last to enter the Top-10 with a preliminary score of 29/44 points, in the live Semi-finals she finished 3rd to enter the top-5, and eventually won the coveted crown with a margin of only 1 vote against early front-runner Miss United Kingdom. She is at date the last Miss World to receive a scepter during her coronation, an also the first Miss World to be invited in the Oxford debate during her reign. She was born in August 10, 1974 and is an only child, she later married a man named Andrey and has a daughter named Katya born in 1999. In 2000, Kourotchkina stood out among the guests of honor at the Miss World 2000 pageant, where she and a dozen other former “queens” were invited on the occasion of the show’s 50th anniversary. She later returned as a judge for “Miss World 2005”, also along with some former beauty queens. (SOURCE: https://rodriguezmatute.home.blog/2020/11/30/miss-world-1992/) .