Tatyana Aleksandrovna Tolmachova (russian: Татьяна Александровна Толмачёва,
née
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Granatkina, Гранаткина; 21 January 1907 – 21 October 1998) was a
Russian
figure skater
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, figure skating coach and one of the founders of Soviet figure skating school,
Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. She started skating as single skater and represented the club of Dynamo in the 1930s. Then she moved to pair skating with her husband
Alexander Tolmachev
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From 2014 to 2015, Tolmachev worked as direc ...
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Tolmachova was the leading ladies' coach. She worked in Moscow. Her husband Alexander Tolmachev headed the Moscow department of the
Figure Skating Federation of Russia.
Since 1946, Tolmachova worked as a figure skating coach at the Young Pioneers Stadium school in Moscow, established with her help. Among her pupils were
Vladimir Kovalev,
Elena Tchaikovskaia,
Lyudmila Pakhomova,
Galina Kuhar,
Alexander Vedenin,
Tatiana Nemtsova,
Elena Sheglova,
Sergei Chetverukhin,
Valentin Piseev
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Her brother
Valentin Granatkin was a football, ice hockey and
bandy
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player.
Results
Singles
Pairs
(with Tolmachev)
References
1907 births
Russian figure skating coaches
Soviet figure skating coaches
Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
Russian female pair skaters
Soviet female pair skaters
Figure skaters from Moscow
1998 deaths
Female sports coaches
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