Elena Anatolyevna Tchaikovskaia, also spelled as Chaykovskaya or Chaikovskaia (,

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Osipova (); born 30 December 1939) is a Russian

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coach,

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, and former competitor for the

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. She runs a skating school at the Yantar Sports Center, built in 2010 in the

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west of

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. She coaches in collaboration with Vladimir Kotin, her former pupil.

Biography

Elena Tchaikovskaia was born in

in a family of theatre actors. Her father worked in Mossovet Theatre. Since childhood she was prepared to become an actor, and even starred with her father Anatoliy Osipov in several Soviet films, such as '' Schastlivyy reys''. She had unhealthy lungs, so her father took her to the ice rink, believing skating would help improve her health. After school she decided to attend the

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(GITIS),

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faculty. In

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, she became a Soviet champion in single skating. In

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, she retired from competitions and started working as choreographer and later as a coach. Since 1997, she has served as the Russian Olympic committee's main coach. She also coaches the national figure skating team. Among her current and former students are: * Vladimir Kotin * Vladimir Kovalev * Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponossov *

Lyudmila Pakhomova Lyudmila Alekseyevna Pakhomova (; 31 December 1946 – 17 May 1986) was a Russian ice dancer who competed for the Soviet Union. With her husband Aleksandr Gorshkov, she was the 1976 Olympic champion, one of the oldest female figure skating Olym ...

/ Aleksandr Gorshkov * Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas *

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* Viktoria Volchkova * Sergei Davydov * Andrei Lezin *

Kristina Gorshkova Kristina Valeryevna Gorshkova (, born 18 February 1989) is a Russian former competitive ice dancer. With partner Vitali Butikov, she is the 2008 World Junior bronze medalist. Gorshkova began skating at age four and switched from singles to ic ...

/ Vitali Butikov * Alexandra Maksimova / Egor Maistrov * Emma Hagieva The

has a special faculty for former sportsmen and figure skaters who are willing to become coaches. It is headed by Elena Tchaikovskaia and was formerly headed by Tchaikovskaia's student Lyudmila Pakhomova. Tchaikovskaia also heads a skating school in Moscow called "Skate of Tchaikovskaia" (). Tchaikovskaia was twice awarded with the

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and once with the

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n Order of Gediminas for her successful work with Margarita Drobiazko and Povilas Vanagas. Drobiazko and Vanagas, as well as Julia Soldatova and Kristina Oblasova trained in "Skate of Tchaikovskaia" school.

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In 2023, she stated that the doping case involving Kamila Valieva is the result of "political games" instigated by the

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Coaching philosophy

Famous for her

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pairs, in 2007, she stated that personally thinks that

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is far more important and difficult. She is more involved in single skating, though says that she may return to

someday. She has written several books about training of figure skaters, for example, ''Konek Udachi'' (, lit. "A skate of luck"), which was published in 1994. In 2007, a documentary about her was released in Russia titled ''Her Ice Majesty. Elena Tchaikovskaia'' () directed by Oleg Moroseev.

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