The Miss Belarus Pageant is a bi-annual national beauty contest that has been held in Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

 since 1998. Winner represents Belarus in Miss World

Miss World

The Miss World pageant is the oldest surviving major international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951...

. The main award includes the Miss Belarus crown made out of 100 grams of white gold

White Gold

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 of (about ) with half a thousand precious and semiprecious stones. The 2010 winner also received 50 million Roubles (~$1.711 million) as of May 1, 2010.

The winners

Year	Miss Belarus	City
1998	Sviatlana Kruk	Hrodna Hrodna Grodno or Hrodna , is a city in Belarus. It is located on the Neman River , close to the borders of Poland and Lithuania . It has 327,540 inhabitants...
2000	Anna Stičjnskaja	Mogilev Mogilev Mogilev is a city in eastern Belarus, about 76 km from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and 105 km from the border with Russia's Bryansk Oblast. It has more than 367,788 inhabitants...
2002	Volha Neudach	Brest Brest, Belarus Brest , formerly also Brest-on-the-Bug and Brest-Litovsk , is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the city of Terespol, where the Bug River and Mukhavets rivers meet...
2004	Volha Antropava	Vitebsk Vitebsk Vitebsk, also known as Viciebsk or Vitsyebsk , is a city in Belarus, near the border with Russia. The capital of the Vitebsk Oblast, in 2004 it had 342,381 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth largest city...
2006	Kaciarjna Litvinava	Mogilev Mogilev Mogilev is a city in eastern Belarus, about 76 km from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and 105 km from the border with Russia's Bryansk Oblast. It has more than 367,788 inhabitants...
2008	Volha Khizhynkova Volha Khizhynkova Volha Khizhynkova is a beauty pageant contestant who won the title of Miss Belarus 2008, and represented Belarus in Miss World 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She completed her studies and works as a model.-External links:*...	Vitebsk Vitebsk Vitebsk, also known as Viciebsk or Vitsyebsk , is a city in Belarus, near the border with Russia. The capital of the Vitebsk Oblast, in 2004 it had 342,381 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth largest city...
2010	Ljudzmila Jakimovič	Hrodna Hrodna Grodno or Hrodna , is a city in Belarus. It is located on the Neman River , close to the borders of Poland and Lithuania . It has 327,540 inhabitants...