Polina Zinovyeva is a Nizhny Novgorod video blogger known for her HelloPolly channel. She started the channel at age twelve and built a million-strong audience through videos about her own life, interests, and travels [1]. In 2018 her book HelloPolly. 50 School Life Hacks was published — about how to make ordinary teenage everyday life more vivid [1].

The Channel

HelloPolly grew out of a video school diary: stories about the day, about things, about trips. Content like this relies not on sensation but on the feeling that a familiar person is talking to you — and the audience grows slowly, over years [1].

By 2026 the channel has more than one million three hundred thousand subscribers, with a Telegram channel adding another twenty-six and a half thousand. Figures as of 2 September 2026.

What She Talks About

The author describes her channel's topics briefly: blogging, style, books. It is not a shopping-haul channel or a "how to be successful" advice column — it is more of a conversation about what the day looks like for someone who has invented their own job.

Hence both the genre of the book and the idea of a school for creators: over more than ten years Zinovyeva has accumulated experience that in her world is usually passed on informally rather than systematically [1].

The Book and Her Studies

Zinovyeva finished school through home education — there was no other way to combine classes with filming. After school she went to New York to study directing [1].

The book 50 School Life Hacks came out when the author herself was barely fifteen: the tips in it are not adult or preachy, but exactly the ones she herself had been missing [1].

What's Next

Zinovyeva has spoken about plans to open a school for bloggers and creators who work with an audience [1]. In April 2026 she was included in the NewsNN public vote "Young and Promising of Nizhny Novgorod Region" — alongside athletes, volunteers, and scientists from the region [1].

For the Nizhny Novgorod Internet, her case is notable because a person grew to a million-strong audience without changing either the city in their biography or their tone of voice.

Where to Find Her

In addition to her video channel, Zinovyeva has a Telegram and a page on a photo network; for work inquiries she provides a dedicated email address rather than personal messages — the standard arrangement for a professional creator.

The April NewsNN vote she was included in is structured as a snapshot of a generation: alongside her on the list are Olympic cross-country skier Anastasiya Kuleshova, bandy world champions Leonid Afanasyev and Yegor Petrov, volunteers from Knyaginino and Gorodets — and Molev Alexey with his project "Thank You, Nizhny!" [1]. Media standing alongside sport and science in such a list is itself a sign of the times.

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  1. NewsNN — Young and Promising of Nizhny Novgorod Region. Public Vote No. 4