Tamara Moskvina

Tamara Nikolaevna Moskvina (Russian Тамара Николаевна Москвина, born Братусь / Bratus; born June 26, 1941 in Leningrad) is a former Russian figure skater who started in a single run and pair skating for the Soviet Union and an active figure skating coach.

Career

Moskvina was born on 26 June 1941 as a daughter of the engineer Nikolai Antonovich Bratus ( 1914-1961 ) and his wife Serafima STEPANOVNA Bratus ( 1916-1988 ) in Leningrad. During the Siege of Leningrad she and her family was evacuated to relatives of her mother in a small village in the Urals. Due to malnutrition during the war years Moskvina was only 1.48 meters tall. The family returned in 1948 to Leningrad back. At the age of ten years began with the Moskvina ice skating after her father and her two sisters had bought skates. Your girlfriend Irina encouraged her to go with her figure skating training to Ivan Bogojawlenski what they did. From 1957, and therefore during their entire international career, she was coached by Igor Moskvin, whom she married in 1964. The couple has two daughters, Olga and Anna. 1958 ended Moskvina the music school in piano. She graduated from the University of Physical Culture and Sport, and completed her studies of pedagogical sciences in 1971.

For the Soviet Union Tamara Moskvina launched a total of seventeen years, both in single and pair skating. From 1962 to 1966, she was Soviet figure skating champion in the women. Four times she took part in the individual race at the European Championships. Her best result was the 14th place at the European Championship in 1965. Afterwards, she moved on the advice of Moskvin to pair skating. Her first figure skating partner was Alexander Gavrilov, with him she won the 1965 Soviet Championship, but then Gavrilov ended his career and Moskvina had to find a new figure skating partner. It was Alexei Mishin and should remain until the end of her career in 1969. In their first joint national championships in 1966 they were third parties. This result they repeated a year later. In 1967, she contested her first major international tournaments. Both at the World Championships as well as at the European Championships, they were sixth. In 1968, Moskvina and Soviet Mishin runner and in Västerås also vice - European champion Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg behind Protopopov. At the World Championships she missed a medal in fourth place and at the Olympic Games in Grenoble they finished fifth. In 1969, the couple at the Soviet Championship, the world champions the last four years, Belousova and Protopopov, as well as the world champion of the next four years, Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov, defeat and thus become champions. This could Moskvina and Mishin at the European Championships but do not repeat and had to be the third best soviet pair settle for the bronze medal. At the World Cup they could Belousova and Protopopov beat, but subject clearly Rodnina and Ulanov and thus won the silver medal. After that Moskvina but decided to complete their studies and to have a child instead of collecting more medals and so the couple ended his competitive career. Both concentrated from then on to their coaching career.

Moskvina began with her husband to work as a trainer, most of that time in St. Petersburg, during the 1990s but also in Hackensack, New Jersey.

They invented many pairs of running elements, especially in the opposite choreography, in which men and women show different movements, which nevertheless form a unit. She was co-author in 1984 of the official ISU 's guide to the evaluation of the pair run. Moskvina mostly focuses on two couples in their coach work and taking care of everything, even to the choreography and costumes.

Moskvina trained, among others, the Olympic champion Jelena Walowa and Oleg Vasilyev, Artur Dmitriev with his two partners and Oksana Kazakova Natalia Mischkutjonok and Jelena Bereschnaja and Anton Sikharulidze. Currently she trains Juko Kawaguti and Alexander Smirnov.

Results

Single run

Pair of running

( with Alexei Mishin )