Mariia Oleksandrivna Yefrosinina (Ukrainian: Марія Олександрівна Єфросініна; born 25 May 1979), professionally known as Masha Efrosinina (Ukrainian: Маша Єфросініна), is a Ukrainian television host and media personality. Along with Pavlo Shylko, she hosted the 50th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Masha Efrosinina Маша Єфросініна
Born	Mariia Oleksandrivna Yefrosinina (1979-05-25) 25 May 1979 (age 43) Kerch, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Ukrainian
Alma mater	Kyiv University
Occupation	TV host actress entertainer
Known for	hosting Eurovision Song Contest in 2005
Spouse	Tymur Khromaiev ​ (m. 2003)​ [1]
Children	Nana (daughter) Oleksandr (son)
Parent(s)	Oleksandr (father) Liudmyla (mother)
Relatives	Yelyzaveta (sister) Andriy Yushchenko (brother-in-law)
Awards	Best TV Hostess 2004

In 2018, Masha became the United Nations Population Fund Goodwill Ambassador.[2]

Biography

Graduating from a high school with a gold medal (an honour roll), Efrosinina enrolled into the Department of Foreign Languages in the Kyiv University to graduate as an interpreter of the English and Spanish languages.

In 19 she debuted on the First National channel in the program Happy Bell. In 2002 she received the Teletriumph prize in the nomination the Best TV show.

She co-presented the 50th Eurovision Song Contest alongside Pavlo Shylko, in 2005 from Kyiv's Sports Palace, to a pan-European TV-audience of an estimated 150 million people. She has also co-presented the UEFA Euro 2012 draw held at the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, on 7 February 2010.

She presented, alongside Andriy Domanskyi, Fabryka Zirok, the Ukrainian version of Star Academy, on Novyi Kanal.[3]

On 18 November 2010 Efrosinina placed the 77th place among the most influential females in Ukraine according to the Ukrainian magazine Focus.[4]

Personal life

Masha got married in 2003 to Tymur Khromaiev, an Ossetian-Ukrainian, son of the president of Ukrainian basketball league Zurab Khromaiev.[5]

Husband

Tymur Khromaiev[6] is a graduate of the Finance Department of Union College (New York) with bachelors in economics. Tymur Khromaiev is a representative of a financial consulting company[7] that cooperated with Naftogaz Ukrainy in its restructuring.[8] Since 2002 he is director of his own investment company "ARTA" that works in a field of corporate financing, investment banking, brokerage, and assets management.

Yelyzaveta Yushchenko

Her sister Yelyzaveta, who is two years younger,[9] married Andriy Yushchenko, son of the former Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko.[10][11] She also graduated Kyiv University (2009) department of psychology and now works as specialist in a child psychology. On 10 March 2010 the young Yushchenko family increased in size by a girl, Varvara.[12][13]

Awards

• Order of Merit, Third Class (2020)[14]

See also

• List of Eurovision Song Contest presenters

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maria Efrosinina.

• (in English and Russian) Brief biography and pictures
• (in Ukrainian) Офшор допоможе "Нафтогазу" реструктурувати борги (Association of Gas Traders of Ukraine, AGTU)
• (in Ukrainian) Про консультантів, євробонди та наперсточників (Дзеркало Тижня № 33 (761) 5 — 11 вересня 2009)

Preceded by Meltem Cumbul & Korhan Abay	Eurovision Song Contest presenter (with Pavlo Shylko) 2005	Succeeded by Sakis Rouvas & Maria Menounos

На других языках

[ru] Ефросинина, Мария Александровна