Follow Karina Smirnoff from Kharkiv, Ukraine, to the professional
ballroom dancers cast of the hit show ABC Dancing With The Stars!

Birthday: Jan 2, 1978
Home Town: Kharkiv, Ukraine
As a young teen, Karina emigrated to United States and became a US citizen. She finished high school, and attended University in New York, before pursuing a career in ballroom dancing.
Her professional partnerships thus far include Roman Nabatov, Paul Killick, Louis van Amstel, Slavik Kryklyvyy, and Dmitri Timokhin.
The longest and most successful of these partnerships was with Slavik Kryklyvyy (2001-2005). The pair also choreographed the Tango used in the block buster movie Shall We Dance!
On December 31, 2008, Karina and Maksim Chmerkovskiy announced their engagement to be married. The couple danced together professionally in the Broadway show, Burn The Floor.
Although the romance was short lived, you will often find them both in the cast of ABC Dancing With The Stars.
Here are just a few career highlights of this talented lady!
Partners and final placements for each season of DWTS
in which Karina participated.
| Mario Lopez | 2006 | 2nd | Aaron Carter | 2009 | 5th |
| Billy Ray Cyrus | 2007 | 7th | Mike Sorrentino | 2010 | |
| Floyd Mayweather Jr | 2007 | 9th | |||
| Mario | 2008 | 5th | |||
| Rocco DiSpirito | 2008 | 9th | |||
| Steve Wosniak | 2009 | El. 4th Rd |
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