Student Named Siberian Beauty Contest Winner
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Associated Press
MOSCOW — A student at an institute for railroad engineers in Irkutsk near the Mongolian border has won Siberia’s first beauty contest, Soviet news media reported Tuesday.
The newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya said 10,000 young women participated in a contest sponsored by the Young Communist League and labor unions. Lyudmilla Semdyakina was judged the “most charming and attractive,” the newspaper said.
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