Tatiana Aleksandrovna Tolmacheva , née

NEE

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Granatkina was a former Soviet

Soviet Union

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 figure skater, figure skating

Figure skating

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 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 "Dynamo" club in the 1930s. Then she moved to pair skating with partner Alexander Tolmachev.

Tolmacheva was the leading ladies' coach. She worked in Moscow. Her husband Alexander Tolmachev headed the Figure Skating Federation of Moscow

Figure Skating Federation of Russia

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Since 1946 Tatiana Tolmacheva worked as a figure skating coach in Young Pioneers Stadium school in Moscow, established with her help. Among her pupils were Vladimir Kovalev

Vladimir Kovalev

Vladimir Nikolaevich Kovalev is a retired figure skater who competed internationally for the USSR. He is an Olympic silver medalist and 2-time World champion. He trained at VSS Trud in Moscow. Kovalev is pronounced, "ko-va-lyov."...

, Elena Tchaikovskaia

Elena Tchaikovskaia

Elena Anatolyevna Tchaikovskaia, also spelled as Chaykovskaya or Chaikovskaia is a Russian figure skating coach and choreographer. She runs a skating school at the Yantar Sports Center, built in 2010 in the Strogino District west of Moscow...

, Lyudmila Pakhomova

Lyudmila Pakhomova

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, Galina Kuhar, Aleksandr Vedenin, Tatiana Nemtsova, Elena Sheglova, Sergei Chetverukhin

Sergei Chetverukhin

Sergei Alexandrovich Chetverukhin is a former Soviet figure skater. He trained at VSS Trud in Moscow. He is a three-time medalist at the World Figure Skating Championships and a four-time medalist at the European Figure Skating Championships, each time coming in behind Ondrej Nepela...

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Her brother Valentin Granatkin was a football, hockey and bandy

Bandy

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