Kseniya Simonova (born 1985) is a sand animator from Ukraine. She was the 2009 Winner of Ukraine's Got Talent[1], constructing an animation that portrayed life during USSR's Great Patriotic War against the Third Reich in World War II.
Simonova won ₴1,000,000 Ukraninan Hryvnia (approx. $125,000) for her first place in the show.[2] A YouTube video of the performance has received more than two million hits.[3]