missvuznn2002.narod.ru is the site of the Nizhny Novgorod student beauty pageant "Miss VUZ Nizhny Novgorod" ("Miss University Nizhny Novgorod"), hosted on the free hosting service "Narod.Ru". Judging by the content of the home page, the pageant was held among Nizhny Novgorod universities — NSTU, VVAGS, NSPU, NGLU, UNN, VGIPI and HSE[1], and the 2002 final party took place at the Nizhny Novgorod night club NK ROCCO[1]. The site was listed in the nn.ru directory (the "/rub/" section)[1]. The first snapshot in the web archive is dated August 4, 2003, and the last — October 30, 2007[2].
Menu and site structure
The home page navigation combined sections for the participating universities: "Miss NSTU", "Miss VVAGS", "Miss NSPU", "Miss NGLU", "Miss UNN", "Miss VGIPI", "Miss HSE", as well as "Guestbook", "Miss VUZ NN 2001", "Photo material" and "Final"[1]. The structure remained unchanged in the last recorded snapshot of 2007 — the heading and menu composition match the earlier version[2].
How the home page told the story of the pageant
The main text of the home page is a first-person account of the pageant's final party "MISS VUZ NN 2002", held, as the home page reported, "ON MAY 1 at NK ROCCO"[1]. According to the text, the program included a screening of footage from previous contests, a fashion show of clothing from the "Lunokhod" store, the "Business Card" competition, and a swimsuit and evening-gown walk[1]. Among the finalists named are Elena Anisimova, Anna Nikitina, Evgenia Kalinkina and Ekaterina Shlyapugina; the page awards the title "MISS VUZ NIZHNY NOVGOROD OF 2002" to Anna Nikitina[1]. A separate "Miss Internet" nomination from the "Kvantor Computer Salon" went to Olga Buevich (Miss UNN) — for whom, as the home page reported, "on May 1, between 4:30 and 7:00 p.m., awakened fans voted 116 times"[1]. The winner received a mobile phone from the general sponsor "Beeline GSM — Nizhny Novgorod" and a trip to Turkey from the travel agency "Egna"; another prize was raffled off by the "Oka Food Combine" and the "Dlya Dushi" ("For the Soul") trademark[1]. The text names and thanks the organizers — Maxim Burganov (chief organizer), Denis Makarov (artistic director) and Ekaterina Davydova (producer, choreographer)[1].
Place in the Nizhny Novgorod internet
The site was listed by the nn.ru directory in the "/rub/" section[1]. No votes for it are recorded in our data: it does not appear in the surviving Counter.nn.ru samples or in the results of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet Day. This does not mean the site was outside the Nizhny Novgorod directory's view — only that its figures did not make it into the counter sample available to us; more on the data-collection methodology in the Archival study of the Nizhny Novgorod internet from the counter.nn.ru rating. The site was part of the broader infrastructure of the Nizhny Novgorod Internet of the early 2000s — a section of free student and city projects on the "Narod.Ru" platform.
Fate of the address
The last snapshot of the site in the web archive is dated October 30, 2007; at that point the structure and content of the home page were no different from the 2003 version[2]. When checked in August 2026, the site responded at this address.
Sources
- web.archive.org — Home page, 2003 (archive)
- web.archive.org — Last snapshot, 2007 (archive)