27 Facts About Tamara Moskvina

Tamara Nikolayevna Moskvina is a Soviet and Russian pair skating coach and former competitive skater.

Tamara Moskvina later became a successful coach, leading at least one pair to an Olympic medal in six consecutive Winter Olympics from 1984 to 2002 and twice coaching the gold and silver medal-winning pairs, in 1992 and 1998.

Tamara Moskvina Nikolayevna Bratus was born 26 June 1941 in Leningrad, the daughter of Serafima and Nikolay Bratus.

Tamara Moskvina began skating in Leningrad at the age of 10, after her father obtained used skates for his daughters.

Tamara Moskvina practiced at the Iskra and Dinamo rinks, the latter of which was on a tennis court.

Tamara Moskvina moved to an ice rink on Vasilyevsky Island which opened in 1958 after conversion from an abandoned church.

Tamara Moskvina became the Soviet national ladies' champion for the first time in 1962 and would win the title four more times.

Tamara Moskvina was inspired after seeing a gymnastics competition and began attempting it on the ice.

Tamara Moskvina included the spin at the 1960 European Championships.

Tatyana's husband, Alexander Tolmachev, headed the Figure Skating Federation of Moscow, so Tamara Moskvina, who did not train under Tolmachova, had little chance to stay in the team.

Later in 1965, Tamara Moskvina teamed up with Alexei Mishin, whom she had trained alongside when they were both singles skaters.

Tamara Moskvina decided to retire from competition in 1969 to start a family.

Tamara Moskvina became interested in a coaching career during her competitive years.

Tamara Moskvina earned her doctorate in educational psychology from the Leningrad Academy of Physical Culture.

Tamara Moskvina has coached at the Yubileyny Sports Palace in Saint Petersburg, Russia, for almost her entire career.

Tamara Moskvina was one of the first Soviet coaches to collaborate with the skating world outside the Soviet Union and its satellites.

Tamara Moskvina contributed a report on the 1970 European Championships to Skating Magazine, an American publication, which at that time required clearance through the central news agency in the Soviet Union.

Tamara Moskvina co-authored the International Skating Union's judging handbook for pair skating in 1984.

In 1999, Tamara Moskvina moved to Hackensack, New Jersey's Ice House and spent several years coaching there.

Tamara Moskvina coached some pairs in collaboration with her husband, Igor Moskvin, and some with former students Artur Dmitriev and Oksana Kazakova.

Tamara Moskvina's pairs have worked with various choreographers, including Alexander Matveev, Tatiana Druchinina, Valeri Pecherski, Igor Bobrin, and Peter Tchernyshev.

Tamara Moskvina has passed this on in the choreography for the various pair teams she has coached, inventing many unique pair skating elements in which the man and woman, although performing different movements, still work together as a unit.

In 2011, Tamara Moskvina said she planned to retire after the 2014 Olympics but would continue to advise pairs in addition to writing a book on her coaching experiences.

Tamara Moskvina is the head of the club and the pair skating coach.

Since 2019, Tamara Moskvina has been a consultant to Petr Gumennik.

Tamara Moskvina became the head coach of the Belarusian national team.

Tamara Moskvina was inducted into the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2005.