Polina Marchenko

Early life and education

Polina was born on 10 July 1993 in Saint Petersburg. In 2011 she entered the Saint Petersburg State Institute of Culture to study the directing of theatrical shows and festivals, passing the creative entrance exam with a perfect score.

As a student she danced in a show ballet, worked on city festivals and took her first jobs at event agencies. She graduated in 2014. Her diploma production, a stage show built on real stories from the Second World War, stayed in the venue’s program after she left. For several years after university she kept directing shows and celebrations for event agencies.

Career in adult film

Polina uploaded her first video to Pornhub in 2018 and became famous almost overnight. In 2020 Pornhub named her Amateur Model of the Year, and she had the platform’s most viewed video of the year twice in a row, in 2020 and 2021. In 2021 she was the third most viewed amateur model on Pornhub, and her videos there have passed 900 million views.

More awards followed: a Pornhub Award in 2021, Best Amateur Scene at the XBIZ Awards in 2023 and Best Amateur Release at the AVN Awards in 2025. Today Polina shares her photos and videos with subscribers on OnlyFans and Fansly.

Her own studio

In 2019, when buyers began asking her for more films and more models, Polina founded the production studio Luxury Girls Production and the agency Luxury Girls Model Management in Estonia, a country with a clear legal framework for adult businesses. The studio has produced more than a hundred films.

Streaming, video and music

In April 2020 Polina launched her YouTube channel with vlogs and, later, fishing adventures. In May 2022 she started streaming on Twitch as LUXGRL: conversations with her audience, IRL streams, cooking, CS2 and GTA V. By 2025 more than 250,000 people followed her channel, and her social pages together — Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitch and Telegram — had about 1.9 million followers. In the summer of 2025 she ran a series of multi-camera fishing streams from Russia entirely on her own, with no camera crew; the series gathered more than 1.8 million views.

Since 2023 Polina has also released music: Russian-language singles, among them “Sotri menya” (“Erase Me”) with Nikita Sudoryam, and the compilation REMIXXX with Jia Lissa and Zieger.

Maxim

In 2024 Polina wrote a weekly column for Maxim for six months and gave the magazine a long interview about streaming, fishing, haters and her career. Today she is an editor at Maxim with her own column.

Off camera

Fishing is Polina’s great passion. She competes in USAL spinning tournaments, and in 2021 her crew finished fourth at the Oksky Trophy. She holds a skipper’s license and loves yachting, paints, sings and travels.

Timeline

1. 1993Born in Saint Petersburg on 10 July
2. 2014Graduated from the Institute of Culture as a theater director
3. 2018First video on Pornhub. Famous overnight
4. 2019Founded Luxury Girls Production and Luxury Girls Model Management
5. 2020Amateur Model of the Year, Pornhub. Launched her YouTube channel
6. 2021Third most viewed amateur model on Pornhub. Fourth place at the Oksky Trophy fishing tournament
7. 2022Started streaming on Twitch as LUXGRL
8. 2023Best Amateur Scene, XBIZ Awards. First singles and the REMIXXX compilation
9. 2024A weekly column in Maxim
10. 2025Best Amateur Release, AVN Awards. Fishing streams with more than 1.8 million views
11. NowEditor at Maxim, with her own column

Questions people ask

In the press

Articles in Russian.

• MaximInterview about haters, streaming, fishing and adult films, 2024
• MaximPolina’s columns, 2024
• Sobaka.ruInterview after the Pornhub Awards, 2022
• Komsomolskaya PravdaLuxury Girl wins at the Pornhub Awards, 2022