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 coach. Among her former and current students are Nikolai Morozov

Nikolai Morozov (figure skater)

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, Ilia Averbukh

Ilia Averbukh

Ilia Iziaslavovich Averbukh is a Russian ice dancer. With Marina Anissina, he is the 1990 & 1992 World Junior champions. With former wife Irina Lobacheva, he is the 2002 Olympic silver medalist, the 2002 World Champion and the 2003 European Champion.- Career :Averbukh started skating because of...

, Sergei Dobrin

Sergei Dobrin

Sergei Vladimirovich Dobrin is a Russian figure skater. He is the 2005 World Junior bronze medalist and the 2006 and 2007 Russian National bronze medalist....

, Abzal Rakimgaliev

Abzal Rakimgaliev

Abzal Baurzhanovich Rakimgaliev is a Kazakhstani figure skater. He is the 2007 Kazakhstani national champion. He is the 2005 Warsaw Cup champion. He represented Kazakhstan at the 2010 Winter Olympics, where he placed 26th.- Competitive highlights :...

 and most notably Irina Slutskaya, who had worked with Gromova for her entire career.

Zhanna Gromova, née

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Krivtsun, started skating in 1960 on the local "Trud" rink. At the beginning, she was coached by Elena Kudryashova, then entered a sports school

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. After graduation in 1966 Gromova participated in Vologda oblast

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-International:* International competitions sanctioned by the International Skating Union. These competitions are held using ISU rules; skaters are entered by their respective national skating federations....

s. In 1971 she graduated from the Lesgeft School of Sports Science and Physical Education in Leningrad

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 she took a job of figure skating coach in Norilsk

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. Until early 1970s professional figure skating in Norilsk did not exist, as the first artificial ice rink called "Arctic" was opened in 1971. Gromova was among those coaches, who established figure skating in that city. In Norilsk she met her future husband and moved in Moscow with him. In Moscow she worked as a coach. In 1990 Gromova graduated from ice choreography faculty of GITIS.

In 2007 Vologda's skating club was renamed after her.