[4] Volodina started her career in 1998 when she walked in an open call at a Russian casting agency.
Volodina entered in the Miss Advertising contest where a Moscow Photographer Alexei Vasiliev took a few photos and sent them to a modelling agency in Paris.
[3] In 2002 the photographer Steven Meisel noticed Volodina and featured her on the cover of Vogue Italia.
This cover launched her career, Volodina then was given the nickname "Zhenya" which is known and Zhenial (genius).
[3] Since 2002, Volodina has poseded with numerous fashion magazines such as Vanity Fair, Elle, Vogue, -I-D, Harper's Bazaar, and Numero.