Tatyana Tolmachova

Tatyana Aleksandrovna Tolmachova (Russian: Татьяна Александровна Толмачёва, née Granatkina, Гранаткина; 21 January 1907 – 21 October 1998) was a Russian figure skater, figure skating 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 the club of Dynamo in the 1930s. Then she moved to pair skating with her husband Alexander Tolmachev.

FullnameTatyana Aleksandrovna Tolmachova

Born(1907-01-27)27 January 1907

Moscow, Russian Empire

Died21 October 1998(1998-10-21) (aged 91)

Moscow, Russian Federation

Country Soviet Union

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Tatyana Tolmachova

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Full name	Tatyana Aleksandrovna Tolmachova
Born	(1907-01-27)27 January 1907 Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	21 October 1998(1998-10-21) (aged 91) Moscow, Russian Federation
Figure skating career
Country	Soviet Union
Coach	Aleksey Andrianov[1]

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Tolmachova was the leading ladies' coach.^[2] She worked in Moscow. Her husband Alexander Tolmachev headed the Moscow department of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia.

Since 1946, Tolmachova worked as a figure skating coach at the Young Pioneers Stadium school in Moscow, established with her help. Among her pupils were Vladimir Kovalev, Elena Tchaikovskaia, Lyudmila Pakhomova, Galina Kuhar, Alexander Vedenin, Tatiana Nemtsova, Elena Sheglova, Sergei Chetverukhin, Valentin Piseev.^[3][4][5]

Her brother Valentin Granatkin was a football, ice hockey and bandy player.