Natalia Yevgenievna Pavlova (russian: Наталья Евгеньевна Павлова,

née A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...

Dongauzer, Донгаузер) is a Russian

pair skating Pair skating is a figure skating discipline defined by the International Skating Union (ISU) as "the skating of two persons in unison who perform their movements in such harmony with each other as to give the impression of genuine Pair Skating a ...

coach and former competitor for the

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Personal life

Natalia Yevgenievna Dongauzer (later Pavlova) was born on 8 January 1956 in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. She is the widow of a basketball player. Their daughter, Anastasia Pavlova, was born on 30 January 1982 and also works as a skating coach.

Career

Pavlova competed in pair skating with

Vasili Blagov Vasili Vyacheslavovich Blagov (russian: Василий Вячеславович Благов; 29 October 1954 − 9 May 2019) was a Russian pair skater who competed for the Soviet Union. With partner Irina Cherniaeva, he represented the Soviet Un ...

. They were both over tall. The pair won the silver medal at the 1973

Prize of Moscow News The Prize of ''Moscow News'' (russian: Приз газеты «Московские новости»), also known as the Moscow Skate, Nouvelles de Moscou, and the Moscow News Trophy, was an international, senior-level figure skating competition h ...

. After retiring from competition, Pavlova turned to coaching. She was based in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

until September 2006, when she moved to Moscow to coach at Blue Bird FSC. In 2015, she decided to return to Saint Petersburg. Her students include: * Evgenia Chernyshova /

Dmitri Sukhanov Dmitri Sukhanov (russian: Дмитрий Суханов) is a Russian pair skater. Competing for the Soviet Union with Evgenia Chernyshova, he won gold at the 1989 World Junior Championships, after taking silver a year earlier. They were coache ...

(1989 World Junior champions). *

Marina Eltsova Marina Alexeevna Eltsova (russian: Марина Алексеевна Ельцова; born 4 February 1970) is a Russian former pair skater. She represented the Soviet Union until its fall, and, after that, Russia. With partner Andrei Bushkov, sh ...

Andrei Bushkov Andrei Vasilievich Bushkov (russian: Андрей Васильевич Бушков; born 13 October 1969) is a Russian former pair skater who represented the Soviet Union until its fall, and, after that, Russia. With partner Marina Eltsova, he ...

(1996 World champions). The pair joined her in 1995. *

Oksana Kazakova Oksana or Oxana (, ; be, Аксана), sometimes transliterated as Aksana, is a female given name of Ukrainian origin. The closest equivalent is the Russian name '' Kseniya'' (russian: Ксения, links=no), but the two names coexist in use i ...

/ Dmitri Sukhanov (Kazakova would later become the 1998 Olympic champion) *

Tatiana Totmianina Tatiana Ivanovna Totmianina (russian: Татьяна Ивановна Тотьмянина; born 2 November 1981) is a Russian former competitive pair skater. With partner Maxim Marinin, she is the 2006 Olympic champion, two-time World champion, ...

Maxim Marinin Maxim Viktorovich Marinin (russian: link=no, Максим Викторович Маринин, born 23 March 1977) is a Russian former competitive pair skater. With partner Tatiana Totmianina, he is the 2006 Olympic champion, two-time World cham ...

(coached from 1996–2001, would later become 2006 Olympic champions) * Tatiana Kokoreva /

Egor Golovkin Egor Alexeyevich Golovkin (russian: Егор Алексеевич Головкин; born 9 December 1983 in Moscow) is a Russian former pair skater. With former partner Tatiana Kokoreva, he is the 2005 World Junior bronze medalist. Prior to K ...

(2005 World Junior bronze medalists) * Arina Ushakova / Sergei Karev (coached during 2007–08; 2008 Russian national bronze medalists) *

Lubov Iliushechkina Liubov Ivanovna Ilyushechkina (russian: Любовь Ивановна Илюшечкина, born 5 November 1991) is a Russian-born Canadian pair skater. Ilyushechkina began competing for Canada with Dylan Moscovitch in 2014, and they were the 2 ...

Nodari Maisuradze Nodari Otarievich Maisuradze (russian: Нодари Отариевич Маисурадзе, born 18 February 1988) is a Russian pair skater. With Julia Antipova, he is the 2014 Bavarian Open champion and placed eighth at the 2014 World Champ ...

(2009 World Junior champions), coached pair until the end of their partnership in March 2012. * Anastasia Martiusheva /

Alexei Rogonov Alexei Alexandrovich Rogonov (russian: Алексей Александрович Рогонов; born 6 June 1988) is a Russian former pair skater. With partner Kristina Astakhova, he is the 2015 Winter Universiade silver medalist. With former ...

(2009 World Junior silver medalists)

Awards

Master of Sports of the USSR Unified Sports Classification System of the USSR (russian: Единая Всесоюзная спортивная классификация) is a document which provided general Soviet physical education system requirements for both athletes an ...

* Honored Coach of Russia

References

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