Tamara (Bratus) Moskvina (b. 1941) is a Russian pairs figure skating coach. 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Figure skating is an ice skating sporting event where individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on the ice, often to music. ...

She was born in Leningrad in 1941. During the Siege of Leningrad in World War II, she was evacuated to a village in the Ural Mountains where her mother had relatives. Moskvina has said that she owes her small stature to childhood malnutrition during the war years. The family returned to Leningrad in 1948, where she began to skate. Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea. ... 1941 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Siege of Leningrad Conflict World War II Date September 8, 1941 - January 18, 1944 Place Leningrad, USSR Result Soviet victory The Siege of Leningrad (today Saint Petersburg), during World War II, lasted from September 8, 1941, to January 18, 1944. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb. ... The Ural Mountains (Russian: Ура́льские го́ры = Ура́л) also known simply as the Urals and as the Riphean Mountains in Greco-Roman antiquity, is a mountain range that runs roughly north and south through western Russia. ... Malnutrition is a general term for the medical condition in a person or animal caused by an unbalanced diet—either too little or too much food, or a diet missing one or more important nutrients. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...

As Tamara Bratus, she won the USSR ladies' championship five times during the early 1960's. Her best finish at an international competition in singles was 14th at the 1965 European Championships. Shortly afterwards, she married her coach, Igor Moskvin, and switched to pair skating. She and her partner Alexei Mishin won the 1969 USSR championship -- defeating both the two-time Olympic gold medallists Ludmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov, and the future champions Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov -- and placed second at the 1969 World Figure Skating Championships, before deciding to retire to concentrate on a coaching career. 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (link goes to calendar). ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... Irina Konstantinovna Rodnina (born September 12, 1949, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet figure skater. ... World Figure Skating Championships: Mens singles winners: 1896 - Gilbert Fuchs, (Germany) 1897 - Gustav Hugel, (Austria) 1898 - Henning Grenander, (Sweden) 1899 - Gustav Hugel, (Austria) 1900 - Gustav Hugel, (Austria) 1901 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1902 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1903 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1904 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1905 - Ulrich Salchow, (Sweden) 1906 - Gilbert...

Moskvina earned her doctorate in educational psychology from the Leningrad Academy of Physical Culture. Her students have included Olympic champions Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev; Artur Dmitriev with his two partners Natalia Mishkutenok and Oksana Kazakova; and Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze. // The Olympic Games, or Olympics, is an international multi-sport event taking place every two years and alternating between Summer and Winter Games. ... Elena Berezhnaya (born October 11, 1977 in Nevinnomirsk, Russia) is a Russian figure skater. ... Anton Tarielyevich Sikharulidze was born October 25, 1976. ...

During her own skating career, both in singles and in pairs, Moskvina was known for including unusual flexibility moves in her programs; she may have been the first to perform what is now called a Biellmann spin. She 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. This style of choreography is sometimes referred to as "opposition choreography", as opposed to shadow or mirror skating, when the two partners perform similar movements in unison together. The Biellmann spin is a figure skating move, named after its first prominent performer, Denise Biellmann, in which the skater executes a one-foot spin while holding the other foot extended over their head and behind them, with both hands. ...

Moskvina, who speaks excellent English, was one of the first Soviet coaches to collaborate with Westerners, as she co-authored the International Skating Union's judging handbook for pair skating in 1984. With the end of communism in the Soviet Union, she acted as an agent and promoter for her skaters in the West, and spent several years coaching in the United States. She currently coaches in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The International Skating Union (ISU) is the international governing body for competitive ice skating disciplines, including figure skating, synchronized skating, speed skating, and short track speed skating. ... 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland...

References

• Joy Goodwin: The Second Mark. ISBN 0-7432-4527-X.
• Sonia Bianchetti Garbato: Cracked Ice. ISBN 88-86753-72-1.