Tamara Moskvina

Born

1941-06-26

Birthplace

Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR, [now St. Petersburg, Russia]

Biography

Tamara Nikolayevna Moskvina (Russian: Тамара Николаевна Москвина, née Bratus, Братусь; born 26 June 1941) is a Soviet and Russian pair skating coach and former competitive skater. Competing in pairs with Alexei Mishin,[1] she became the 1969 World silver medalist and Soviet national champion. As a singles skater, she was a five-time (1962–1966) Soviet national champion. She 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. Married to Igor Moskvin, Moskvina is based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tamara Moskvina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.