Speaking at a press conference, Nikitchuk voiced hope that the jury will show an unbiased approach when it assesses the contestants.
"I hope that first and foremost, the jury will assess the external and internal beauty of the contestants and there will be no biased attitude," she said.
Nikitchuk, comes from the Russian city of Yekaterinburg in the Ural Mountains, less than 20 kilometers to the east of the border between Europe and Asia. She graduated from Ural Federal University and won the Miss Russia title in 2015.
Miss World contestants compete in various categories such as top model, sports, multimedia and beauty with a purpose.
One of the oldest beauty contests, the Miss World pageant was held for the first time in the UK in 1951. Russia was represented in the contest for the first time in 1992, by Yulia Kurochkina, who won. Ksenia Sukhinova won the crown in 2008, making Russia one of only three countries to win more than once since the post-Soviet rebirth of the nation.
