Miss Grand Kazakhstan is a female beauty pageant title awarded to Kazakh representatives competing at the Miss Grand International pageant. The title was first mentioned in 2013 when an Almaty-based model, Yuliya Kolesnik, was assigned by Idol Fashion Management LLC to represent Kazakhstan at the first edition of Miss Grand International in Thailand; however, she was unplaced.
Since the establishment of Miss Grand International in 2013, Kazakhstan has occasionally sent candidates to compete. Its representatives were sent by different licensees each year, and most of them received non-placements at the grand final stage, except for the 2018 candidate, Aim Isengalieva, who was named one of the final 20.
History From 2013 to 2014, the license for Miss Grand Kazakhstan belonged to Idol Fashion Management LLC, a Bishkek-based event organizer company headed by a Kyrgyz businessperson, Usen Berdibaev (). The Kazakh representatives for these two editions were directly appointed by the mentioned licensee. In 2015, an attempt to organize the first contest of Miss Grand Kazakhstan was observed, but the project was later canceled for undisclosed reasons, resulting in no Kazakh candidate in Miss Grand International 2015.
In 2018, after the franchise of Miss Grand Kazakhstan was vacant from 2015 to 2017, it was then purchased by Volga Models, a Russia-based model agency and the organizer of Miss Tourism Russia chaired by Vladimir Ilyin, who assigned one of the Miss Tourism Russia 2016 finalists, who is an ethnic Kazakh from Astrakhan, Aim Isengalieva, as Miss Grand Kazakhstan 2018. She then competed internationally in Myanmar, where she was placed among the top 20 finalists, making her the first and only Kazakh candidate, as of 2023, to be placed at Miss Grand International. Gallery
International competition The following is a list of Kazakh representatives at the Miss Grand International contest. Color keys
YearMiss Grand KazakhstanTitlePlacementSpecial AwardsNational DirectorRamanized nameKazakh name2026Anel YemelАнель ЕмелMiss Grand International Qazaqstan 2026 Alena Rivlina-Kyrbasova2025 Tomiris Kadyrkhan Томирис Кадырхан Miss Earth Qazaqstan 2025 Unplaced colspan=72022 Ekaterina Agapova Екатерина Агапова 4th vice-miss Krasa Rossii 2019 colspan="2" Ekaterina Agapova colspan=72018 Aim Isengalieva Аим Исенгалиева Miss Tourism Russia 2016 Finalist Top 20 Vladimir Ilyin colspan=72014 Aidana Elemesova Айдана Елемесова Miss Kazakhstan 2013 Finalist UnplacedUsen Berdibaev2013 Yuliya Kolesnik Юлия Колесник Appointed Unplaced Note
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