Alexey Nikolaevich figure skating coach. Legendary coach Mishin: boycott the Olympics? You just need to read the Constitution of the Russian Federation

After school, Alexei Mishin became interested in electronics and wanted to become an engineer. In 1964 he graduated from the Leningrad Electromechanical Institute named after V.I. Lenin with a degree in electrical engineering. Since 1956, he began to engage in figure skating. Nina Leplinskaya became the first coach of Alexei Mishin. After he trained with Igor Moskvin, paired with figure skater Tamara Moskvina.

In 1968, a pair of Mishins - Moskvina became the silver medalist of the European Championship in Vasteros (Sweden). In 1969, they won the USSR Championship, became silver medalists at the World Championships in Colorado Springs (USA) and bronze medalists at the European Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Germany).

In the same year, Alexei Mishin retired from big-time sports. In 1973 he defended his Ph.D. thesis at the National State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Health. P. F. Lesgaft.

After completing his sports career, Alexei Mishin began coaching. One of his first students was the figure skater Tatyana Oleneva, champion of the USSR (1973), who later became his wife. In 1977 their first son Andrei was born, in 1983 their second son Nikolai was born. During his coaching career, Alexei Mishin trained a number of well-known figure skaters, including world junior champion Vitaly Yegorov, USSR champion Yuri Ovchinnikov, Olympic champion, European champion Alexei Urmanov, Olympic champions, multiple world and European champions Alexei Yagudin and Evgeni Plushenko.

Mishin was the coach of the USSR and Russia at the Olympic Winter Games 1976, 1984, 1994, 1998, 2002.

Currently, Mishin's students include figure skater Artur Gachinsky, who finished fifth at the 2011 European Championships, and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, winner of the Russian junior championship.

Aleksey Mishin is the head of the Department of Theory and Methods of Speed ​​Skating and Figure Skating at the National State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Health. P. F. Lesgaft, since 1990 he has been a professor of the department. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1969), Honored Coach of Russia, Honored Worker of Physical Culture of Russia (2002), member of the coaching council of the Russian Figure Skating Federation, coach of the Russian national figure skating team.

In 1994 he was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples, in 2010 - a medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree "for the successful training of athletes who achieved high sports achievements at the XXI Olympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver (Canada)".

The material was prepared on the basis of information from open sources

We've known each other for forty years. But Mishin is still the same - assertive, cocky, ironic and very optimistic.

Alexey Nikolaevich, how old do you feel?

Alexey Mishin: I remember that already in my mature years I celebrated some anniversaries - 60 years old, 65, 70, now 75. And I still can’t understand: what has diminished in me besides hair? In my opinion, everything, and most importantly sporting achievements, is only increasing. Therefore, I somehow did not think about the years, and I cannot yet speak about the fact that something is disappearing.

In the last couple of seasons, the opinion has become popular that the success in our current figure skating came thanks to the emergence of young coaches.

Alexey Mishin: I can only say one thing. Of course, let them dare, because such a base has been created for them, and we have done a lot for our species. And, you know, I'm already in such a position that there is no jealousy for anyone, because I have so many Olympic champions, world champions in men's and women's skating. Let the young coaches reach the level that we got to, starting from nothing.

Don't you get tired, I don't mean training, from all the fuss that sometimes goes up around figure skating? Rumors, gossip, whispers...

Alexey Mishin: There is little. If the fuss is unconstructive. I take it easy. I discard...

Is it true that you yourself are still pulling up your students on the ropes, who are learning difficult jumps? Or is someone else already doing it?

Alexey Mishin: Not on the ropes, but on the lounges. So I work every day with Lisa Tuktamysheva and with some other young people. Athletes who are heavier and less valuable for world figure skating, I give my assistants to pull up.

Are you pulling up Zhenya Plushenko?

Alexey Mishin: And Zhenya too.

Is he still valuable to you?

Alexey Mishin: Yes, but today I don’t pull it up. And not because I'm lazy, but because Zhenya Plushenko now rarely attends such training sessions, where we practice jumping. He's on sabbatical now

Do you think, Alexey Nikolaevich, that Plushenko will return from this sabbatical?

Alexey Mishin: This is not about Zhenya.

Then tell me how Tuktamysheva is doing. I got really upset. The world and European champion of last year did not get to the European championship ...

Alexey Mishin: Lisa's career has already had one downturn. Now - the second. We will get out of this recession because this is an interesting job for us. The one who in the future will open the window for other girls, will open what was unknown. You can return once, as she returned, but you can do it a second time. This is important personally for Lisa, and for me, and for all those girls who find themselves in a similar situation.

Coach Mishin always succeeded. But paired with Tamara Moskvina there was a lot of silver, but it is not gold. Is there any bitterness left?

Alexey Mishin: And you with this question? There is no particular bitterness. This feeling would not immediately go away and be forgotten if I had not found myself in something else from the first days of my career. And I immediately began to train, I was so absorbed in it that the rest began to disappear, blur. I didn’t have a period of sadness and nostalgia, I don’t even remember this.

And if from a retrospective position, now the sports achievements of the students, compared to my achievements, cover everything. After the end of my sports career, I stood on the podium so many times that one cannot survive. Mine have won every title there is in figure skating.

And how do you see the future of this figure skating? Is it possible to compete with the Japanese Hanyu? With the Spaniard Fernandez - probably, yes, but with the Japanese? It's kind of a fantasy.

Alexey Mishin: I mean, after a certain recession, people with outstanding abilities appear. This is Xavier Fernandez, and, of course, Chania. But to say that their conquests are forever ... Look how the Chinese have moved forward now. And Canadian Patrick Chan demonstrates amazing skating. Therefore, idols should be treated calmly. A worthy athlete is not something that will scare other coaches and skaters. This is not something immutable, like the Chinese wall. Not! Holes may appear in this wall called Chania.

Which of our guys can fit into these holes?

Alexey Mishin: Of those who are skating now, I do not see athletes who could compete with him. But we have athletes who can reach this level. The work of a coach should not be based on defeating someone. The athlete and the coach must come to work and pounce on mastering the elements. Joy should come from the process of moving forward. Then success will come. And if, with tears in your eyes, with anguish, you strive for some goal drawn for you, then I don’t like this path. Creativity and joy in figure skating are comparable to the genius of an artist who paints a picture: this is his joy and happiness. And the happiness of labor brings brilliant results.

And will we ever live to see the ingenious quadruple women's jump?

Alexey Mishin: Yes, we'll live.

And we too?

Alexey Mishin: Yes, we will see a quadruple axel in women in a close historical period. But if we talk about the five jump in men, something else will be required here. We need a radical change in the method, we need to move to a new world, as we moved from the cinder track to tartan in running, we need to rebuild all the training, the approach to performing the jump should be different. We need different ice and different skates. A lot of things are needed here, which I don’t see at all in modern figure skating.

And for me, aside from dreams, it is always very pleasant to see your friend, wife, comrade-in-arms, coach Tatyana Nikolaevna Mishina next to you.

Alexey Mishin: This is because all the best was created hand in hand with her. You understand, Urmanov. Yagudin, Plushenko ... - these are all the fruits of our joint work with my wife.

Don't look at your watch. We are approaching the finish line. How many actors, coaches, journalists approach him, having reached a certain age limit. They themselves leave the profession. Not because they need to leave, but simply because it seems to be accepted that way. In my opinion, you absolutely do not belong to this group of people. What do you think prolongs creative longevity?

Alexey Mishin: No need to peer into the future and look for a reason to stop there. I wake up in the morning, get into the car, go to the skating rink. There I have athletes, coaches, a wonderful environment, great interest ... I do not set myself the task of preparing a champion, overcoming another milestone. My task is to do work that is useful not only for me. And this is Life. Everything is in it: your strength, joy, failure, fame, money. You just need to live and not think that life will end without you. I am confident that I will, and I know that I will train for as long as I can. And the end of a career depends on health. If you don't have it, you're not needed in your business. I'm healthy, I'm needed.

Yes, it's a whole philosophy. Your birthday is March 8th. Doesn't this figure serve as a topic for jokes?

Alexey Mishin: When my mother gave birth to a boy, she said: this is my gift to all the women of the world.

I wish you, Alexei Nikolaevich, health and good luck!

Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Coach of Russia, Honored Worker of Physical Culture of Russia, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, coach of the Russian national figure skating team

Born March 8, 1941 in Sevastopol. Father - Mishin Nikolai Ivanovich. Mother - Delyukina Tatyana Valentinovna. Wife - Oleneva Tatyana, figure skating coach. Sons: Mishin Andrey Alekseevich, Mishin Nikolai Alekseevich - tennis players.

“The origins of my professional creativity are in the origins of my biography,” says A.N. Mishin. “These sources for me were and remain, first of all, my parents, who had a great influence on the formation of my character and education, creativity and professionalism.”

Parents A.N. Mishina knew each other since childhood. In Smolensk they lived on neighboring streets, then studied together at Smolensk University, where they listened to lectures by famous professors who often came from Moscow. They played together in the theater.

After graduating from the university, Nikolai Ivanovich was sent to work in the village of Gusino, and Tatyana Valentinovna was assigned to a large city in another region as a teacher at a technical school. But when she arrived there, it turned out that the place was already taken. Returning to Smolensk, she learned from her neighbors that Kolya Mishin had come from Gusino, and he had places there. So they both ended up in Gusino, where they got married in 1930. In 1932 their daughter Lyudmila was born.

At this time, Nikolai Ivanovich received an invitation to graduate school at Leningrad University. After graduating from graduate school, he was sent as a teacher at the Higher Naval School named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky, and the family moved to Leningrad. So the fate of Nikolai Ivanovich changed - he became a military man. Soon he was transferred to Sevastopol, to a new naval school. Tatyana Valentinovna also taught at the school. Here, in Sevastopol, a few months before the start of the Great Patriotic War, their son Alexei was born.

In early July 1941, the officers of the school were advised to take their families out of the city. All the relatives of the Mishins remained in Smolensk, where a heavy battle unfolded. There was nowhere to leave Sevastopol. Then a friend of Nikolai Ivanovich advised me to go to his parents in Ulyanovsk. Despite the fact that in Ulyanovsk, in a strange house, Tatyana Valentinovna and her children were received warmly and cordially, they barely survived this first year of evacuation. Even my mother's beautiful crepe de chine dresses, which were sold at a high price in the bazaar, did not save ... There was nothing to feed the children. As a result, Alexei developed rickets and the boy could not have survived if not for his mother. In the yard, right in the stones, she knocked out holes, applied earth from the banks of the Volga, poured it into the holes and planted tomatoes. And with these tomatoes she cured her son.

Meanwhile, my father, along with other teachers of the Sevastopol School, was sent to the Marine Corps. In the autumn of 1941, he was transferred to Moscow, and from there to the North-Western Front, where he mainly fought. Then Nikolai Ivanovich was sent as a senior teacher to Solovki, to the Jung school, where, by the way, the future writer Valentin Pikul studied. At the end of the war, he was transferred to Tbilisi, to the newly opened 2nd (after Leningrad) Nakhimov Naval School. Here the father brought his wife and children from the evacuation. They were settled in a broken, cold hotel "Colchis". Soon the Mishins received a good three-room apartment on a quiet street with small courtyards entwined with grapes. But they did not live there for long - their father was transferred to Leningrad, where they were given a room in a communal apartment on Ruzovskaya Street.

The childhood of Alexei Mishin fell on the harsh post-war years. He grew up as a very dynamic child, spent a lot of time on the street.

Father loved to skate and often took Lyudmila and Alexei with him to the skating rink, borrowing skates from his friend for them. Lyudmila, who studied at the university, one day, having received a scholarship, gave her brother “snow maidens”. From that moment, figure skating entered his life.

Having fastened the "snow maiden" to his felt boots, Alexei walked to the corner of Zagorodny Prospekt and waited for some truck to turn into their Ruzovskaya street. Clinging behind, he rolled along with the truck, making arcs and semicircles, avoiding bumps in the road, not thinking at all about what might happen if you don’t unhook from the truck in time ...

Passing one day by the Anichkov Palace, his father saw children skating around the flower bed. It was there, around this flower bed, immediately after the war, figure skating appeared in Leningrad, Belousova, Protopopov, Stanislav Zhuk began their sports career. Nikolai Ivanovich liked it, and he had the idea to send his son to the figure skating section, where wonderful athletes were engaged, a whole galaxy of future champions.

After school, Alexei Mishin also became interested in electronics and wanted to become an engineer; in 1964 he graduated from the Leningrad Electromechanical Institute named after V.I. Lenin. But life turned out differently - the passion for figure skating turned into a profession.

Alexei began figure skating in 1956. At that time, this sport became one of the brightest, most noticeable phenomena in the life of the country. The question arose before the Soviet skaters: isn't it time to try your hand at the international arena?
The first coach of Alexei Mishin was Nina Vasilievna Leplinskaya, a talented teacher, a student of the legendary Nikolai Panin, the first Russian Olympic champion. Under her guidance, Alexei quickly mastered the basics of figure skating, he did it very quickly. At this time, Maya Borisovna Belenkaya, the partner of Igor Borisovich Moskvin, organized her group at the Iskra stadium, where Mishin was also invited. Tamara Moskvina worked at the same rink. And pretty soon they were paired.

The sports career of Mishin and Moskvina developed successfully. They won the USSR Championship (1969), became the silver medalists of the World Championship (1969) and the European Championship (1968) - then Belousova and Protopopov firmly held the championship. Mishin and Moskvina participated in many competitions, they literally stepped on the heels of the famous duet, but so far they have not been able to surpass it. The moment when Mishin and Moskvina beat Belousova and Protopopov for the first time is one of the brightest in their sports life. Then they left the legendary duet behind twice more in other competitions.

Soviet figure skaters achieved remarkable success in 1969: at the European and World Championships, they won the entire podium in pair skating for the first time. At the European Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov became gold medalists for the first time, followed by Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov and Alexei Mishin's duet with Tamara Moskvina. In Colorado Springs, at the World Championships, Mishin and Moskvina switched places with the duo Belousov - Protopopov (Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov were again gold).

“Tamara Moskvina and I could, of course, stay in the top three for a few more years, but this would not add anything,” says A.N. Mishin. And we decided to leave. They ended their careers without any painful phenomena that happen to an athlete when he leaves a big sport.

Leaving the sport, A. Mishin and T. Moskvina took up coaching. In 1969 they performed for the last season. And already in 1975, a student of A.N. Mishina Yuri Ovchinnikov became the champion of the Soviet Union. A whole cohort of strong young athletes gathered in his group: Zhanna Ilyina, Lenya Kazankov, Vitalik Egorov (junior world champion). K A.N. Mishin came to train and his future wife Tatyana Oleneva, who became the champion of the Soviet Union, competed at the European Championships.
Women's figure skating in the USSR at that time lagged far behind other types of figure skating. To strengthen this sport, special groups for gifted girls were organized on the basis of trade unions in Moscow and Leningrad. The sports committee asked A.N. Mishin to lead the Leningrad group. And he, in turn, invited Tatyana Oleneva to work together, telling her that it was time to think about the future. Soon they got married, and a year later their first son, Andrei, was born. Tatyana Oleneva seriously took up coaching, and in 1979 her students took 2nd and 3rd places at the World Junior Championships.

Before the Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Alexei Mishin, who by that time was the coach of the USSR national team, was surprised to learn that he had become “not allowed to travel abroad”. The book “Figure Skating for All” (50,000 copies), which he handed over to Lenizdat the day before and had already been printed, was destroyed (three years later the book was still published). There was no official explanation (according to rumors, someone wrote a denunciation against him). The intrigue continued. Mishin was no longer shown on television. But training was not banned. He remained the coach of the USSR national team. His pupils performed at the European and World Championships, and he only found out about everything by phone. For three years (1976-1978) no one accepted him, they were afraid to talk to him, not knowing what to answer him ...

Everything was solved with one call. Mishin made an appointment with the head of Soviet sports, Sergei Pavlov, and told him about his misadventures. Pavlov asked his secretary to connect him with Boris Ivanovich Aristov, the first secretary of the city committee... When Mishin returned from Moscow to Leningrad, his "case" had already been withdrawn from the "black closet".

“Why did I take the collapse of the Soviet empire positively? - writes A.N. Mishin in his autobiographical novel "About time and about myself". “Because we got a freedom that our parents didn't have. Freedom is a constructive principle, it predetermines progress, pushes people forward.”

A.N. Mishin, a new era began in life, a new generation of talented students, among them the Olympic champion (1994), European champion, repeated champion of Russia Alexei Urmanov; Alexei Yagudin - Olympic champion (2002), four-time world champion, three-time European champion, multiple winner of Russian championships; Evgeni Plushenko - two-time Olympic champion (2006, 2014), three-time world champion (2001, 2003, 2004), seven-time European champion (2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012) ten-time champion of Russia and many others. “A coach who has brought up at least one Olympic champion can consider that he was not born in vain and became a coach not in vain,” says Alexei Nikolayevich.

A.N. Mishin is convinced that creative searches in figure skating have no limits. “Where they end, the coach's talent ends. In figure skating, it's pretty stupid to live in nostalgia, because everything that is created in motion quickly becomes obsolete. The most important and terrible mistake of a coach is when he starts to teach a student “for himself”. Because no matter how great an athlete you are, in a year or two after you have finished skating, figure skating will go ahead. And teaching "for yourself" is a gross mistake. You need to teach for the future, for the future, to see the direction of development ... You need to teach in a way that no one else has taught, and then you will be a champion.” In these searches, he not only used all his knowledge and many years of experience. Possessing some kind of exceptional sense of the future tense, A.N. Mishin developed and theoretically substantiated a completely new technique for the figure skater's multi-turn jumps, created a new performance technique. The result exceeded all expectations. His students continue to captivate the hearts of more and more fans of this sport, remaining in the memory of the audience for many, many years.

Aleksey Nikolayevich is the head of the Department of Speed ​​Skating and Figure Skating of the St. Petersburg State Academy of Physical Culture named after P.F. Lesgaft. He is the author of a textbook on figure skating for universities and several books.

A.N. Mishin - Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1969), Honored Coach of the USSR, Russia, Ukrainian SSR, Honored Worker of Physical Culture of Russia (2002), Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences (1973), Professor (1990), member of the coaching council of the Russian Figure Skating Federation, coach Russian national figure skating team. He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th class, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class, and the badge of honor For Merit to St. Petersburg.

Alexey Nikolaevich likes to spend his free time outside the city. He is fond of cooking, fishing, construction, gardening. He loves dogs - he has two Asian Shepherds at home.
Lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Alexey was born in 1941 in Sevastopol. Soon the war began, the Mishin family was evacuated to Ulyanovsk. The time was hungry, and little Alyosha fell ill with rickets - a disease of malnutrition. He was saved by his mother, who began to grow vegetables in a small garden.

After the war, the family of officer Mishin traveled to different cities until they settled in Leningrad, in one room in a communal apartment. In this city, figure skating imperceptibly entered the life of Alexei. It’s just that the father took the children to the skating rink, and one day his older sister saw how Alyosha liked to skate, and gave him skates.

The mobile boy not only rode on the rink - he clung to the truck and wrote out various dangerous pirouettes, balancing on a slippery road.

Not far from their apartment was the Anichkov Palace, where famous figure skaters came to skate. Alyosha did not suspect that he would soon train with them - he just studied at the figure skating school.

Skater career

Alexei's first coach was Nina Leplinskaya, the teacher of the first Olympian Nikolai Panin. She gave Mishin basic knowledge and skills. At this time, the coach Maya Belenkaya created her own team of figure skaters, and invited the novice athlete to her place. Here he had a meeting with Tamara Moskvina, which determined his entire future professional fate. The Mishin-Moskvin duo represented the Soviet Union in many competitions:

1968 - silver at the European Championship;

1969 - winners of the USSR championship;

1969 - "silver" at the World Championships;

1969 - "bronze" at the European Championships.

In all these tournaments, Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov played with them, and everywhere they were stronger. Mishin realized that he and Moskvina had little prospect of becoming absolute champions, and decided to leave for coaching.

And he was not mistaken - in five years his student Yuri Ovchinnikov won the USSR championship. There were real nuggets in his team - for example, Tatyana Oleneva, who also became the champion of the Soviet Union, participated in European competitions.

In 1976, an incomprehensible thing happened in the fate of the coach: he became “not allowed to travel abroad”, his book was not published, and he was no longer invited to radio and television. For three years he was in the dark, until it became clear that there had been a misunderstanding.

Mishin began to work with enthusiasm: he trained, looked for new tricks. In 1994, the result exceeded expectations: his student Alexei Urmanov won the European and World Championships. Later, the world-famous athlete Evgeni Plushenko received the same titles. And all thanks to innovations and experiments, of which Mishin has always been a supporter.

Now the coach is at a respectable age, but he still skates, teaches students at the university, participates in television programs, he is invited as a consultant to foreign skate teams.

Personal life

We can say that figure skating smoothly flowed into the personal life of Alexei Mishin, because his wife is the same Tatyana Oleneva, whom he trained in the 70s. He also persuaded her to become the coach of the women's team of Russian figure skaters.

And later they got married and no longer parted either on the ice or in the family.

Alexei and Tatyana have two sons: Andrei and Nikolai. They are also athletes, only not figure skaters, but tennis players. So the sports dynasty of the Mishins continues.

Our conversation took place in the Yubileiny Palace, where the Russian Figure Skating Championship will be held in just a couple of days. It is he who will be decisive for the choice of composition for the Olympics. Two wards of Alexei Nikolayevich - Alena Leonova and world champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva - will fight for the right to go to South Korea. Over the long decades of work, the coach has brought up more than one generation of great Russian figure skaters - Alexei Urmanov, Alexei Yagudin, Evgeni Plushenko. For three, they took four Olympic gold medals.

In his office, after training, Alexei Nikolayevich bent over an unusual vest, more like a fencing vest - there are a lot of sensors and wires on the clothes. This is the so-called Mishin's magic vest - the development of the trainer himself:

During jumps, the speed of rotation depends on the correct grouping. The sensors are located on the vest in such a way that if you close the contacts correctly with your hands, a sound occurs. Sometimes the coach, as in the Eastern proverb, says "sugar" a hundred times, but it does not become sweeter in the mouth. He says - group, but he does not group. And here the work of the figure skater is immediately visible. Everything ingenious is simple. As soon as our vest was torn, now we have to look for a new one or think about how to fix it.

Despite the annoyance of such a loss, Alexey Nikolayevich agrees to talk about the upcoming Russian Championship and figure skating in general:

What do you think about the championship of Russia, which starts here on December 21st? In all events, there are a large number of applicants, and there are few trips to Korea, including in the women's singles.

If we talk about crazy competition, it exists more among those who have not gone through a difficult period of growing up. In the ordinary sense, human, the competition between girls is not so great.

- Your ward Elizaveta Tuktamysheva does not shine this season yet. What's wrong? What will you take?

Recent starts have shown that the inclusion of a triple Axel, when it is not stable enough, is fraught with a violation of the entire integrity of the program. This is a very risky undertaking. At the Russian Championships, we will consider whether to include it in both programs or only one. Depending on the specific condition of the athlete before the start. We are aware of the magnitude of the risks and that the competition is really high.

As a coach of an athlete who can go to the Olympics, how do you feel about calls to boycott this competition?

In this matter, one can proceed from sports, political considerations, or from universal ones, which our constitution tells us. She needs to be guided. And it says that for us the highest value is a person. And not a federation, a union of figure skaters, tankers. If the highest value is a person, this person in the form of an athlete should take precedence over any other considerations.

- Someone should be responsible for the fact that we will perform without a flag in Pyeongchang?

The question is natural. But I would now concentrate not on the punishment, not on who successfully or unsuccessfully, legally and illegally tried to contribute to the success of our team. For me, as an old-timer of the Olympics - I competed back in 1968 - this will be half a century in the Olympic movement. So I'll tell you an anecdote from those times when the boycotts were real.

When the 1980 Olympics were held in Moscow, Sergei Pavlovich Pavlov was the chairman of the Council for Physical Culture and Sports under the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol committee. A person of very high status.

Before the Olympics, a hairdresser came to him and constantly asked: "What will happen after the Olympics? And what will happen, Sergey Pavlovich?" Then the official got tired of it, and he asked: "Why did you constantly ask me about this?" And he answers him: "You see, after this question, your hair stood on end so well that it was convenient to cut it."

In general, it seems to me that it is not necessary to concentrate on the cards. The main idea of ​​the sports community should be directed to the development of clean sports. We need to look for new approaches to training, training athletes, to promote the growth of popularity.

Figure skating seems to be even popular with us now, the ratings are high, various shows are held. Compared to many other winter sports, isn't that a success?

I think changes are needed, but not revolutionary, but evolutionary. It is necessary to achieve greater popularity, in the same St. Petersburg I can’t say that there is a flow of children to schools, this is not the case.

- Do you see a galaxy of next-generation coaches behind you?

I see, but this is not a line, but a sparse chain. It is necessary to improve the methods, to equip the regions with advanced training tools. This is the link that is weak in our physical culture and figure movement. We draw talents from the regions, while they themselves suffer from a weak level of organization and infrastructure. The future of our sport's progress depends on the regions.

Full list of participants:

Men:

Mikhail Kolyada, Maxim Kovtun, Alexander Samarin, Andrey Lazukin, Anton Shulepov, Dmitry Aliev, Alexei Erokhov, Vladimir Samoilov, Roman Savosin, Andrey Zuber, Alexander Petrov, Artur Dmitriev, Yegor Murashov, Konstantin Milyukov, Artyom Lezheev, Murad Kurbanov, Makar Ignatov , Sergei Voronov.

Women:

Evgenia Medvedeva, Alina Zagitova, Alena Kostornaya, Maria Sotskova, Elena Radionova, Lidia Yakovleva, Valeria Mikhailova, Anna Tarusina, Anastasia Gulyakova, Alena Leonova, Serafima Sakhanovich, Alisa Fedichkina, Stanislav Konstantinova, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva, Sofia Samodurova, Daria Panenkova, Polina Tsurskaya , Anastasia Gubanova.

Couples:

Ksenia Stolbova - Fedor Klimov, Evgenia Tarasova - Vladimir Morozov, Natalya Zabiyako - Alexander Enbert, Alexandra Boykova - Dmitry Kozlovsky, Anastasia Poluyanova - Dmitry Sopot, Bogdana Lukashevich - Alexander Stepanov, Tatyana Lyirova - Maxim Selkin, Apollinaria Panfilova - Dmitry Rylov, Anastasia Mishina - Alexander Gallyamov, Alisa Efimova - Alexander Korovin, Kristina Astakhova - Alexei Rogonov, Daria Pavlyuchenko - Denis Khodykin.

Dancing on Ice:

Ekaterina Bobrova - Dmitry Solovyov, Betina Popova - Sergey Mozgov, Sofia Evdokimova - Yegor Bazin, Alexandra Stepanova - Ivan Bukin, Victoria Sinitsina - Nikita Katsalapov, Annabelle Morozova - Andrey Bagin, Alla Loboda - Pavel Drozd, Tiffany Zagorski - Jonathan Gureiro, Vlada Solovyova - Yuri Vlasenko, Ekaterina Luchina - Mikhail Bragin, Lyudmila Sosnitskaya - Pavel Golovishnikov, Anastasia Safronova - Ilya Zimin, Margarita Shestakova - Savely Ugryumov.