A 15-year-old schoolgirl won Chechnya's first-ever pageant show.
Zamira Dzhabrailova was named the winner of the Beauty of Chechnya 2006 show in Grozny on Saturday.
Nineteen contestants, ranging in age from 14 to 23, took part in the final round of the competition.
It generated enormous interest, but many of the contestants said it had been hard to persuade the men in their families to let them take part. In another departure from usual practice, there was no swimsuit round. Instead the girls competed on their learning, their knowledge of Chechen traditions and cuisine, and on their conversational and artistic abilities.