Natalya Stroeva

Natalya "Natasha" Stroeva (Russian: Наталья "Наташа" Строева; born 20 August 1999)[1] is a Russian model and beauty pageant titleholder who placed as the second runner-up at Miss Russia 2018, representing Yakutia.

Stroeva was born in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, and is an ethnic Yakut.

She is an orphan; her mother abandoned the family shortly after Stroeva's birth, and her father died of cancer when she was 12 years old.

[2] Prior to competing in Miss Russia, she resided in Moscow, where she was a student at the Russian National Research Medical University with plans to become a dermatologist after graduating.

[5][6][7] She went on to place as the second runner-up in the competition held in Moscow after qualifying to the top twenty through the fan vote, becoming the highest-placing entrant from Yakutia since Sardana Syromyatnikova placed as the second runner-up at Miss Russia 2006.