Tatyana Tolmachova, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tatyana Tolmachova

figure skater

Date of Birth: 21-Jan-1907

Place of Birth: Yekaterinburg, Perm Governorate

Date of Death: 21-Oct-1998

Profession: figure skater, figure skating judge, figure skating coach

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Tatyana Aleksandrovna Tolmachova (Russian: ??????? ????????????? ?????????; 21 January 1907 – 21 October 1998 in Moscow), née Granatkina (Russian: ??????????) was a former Soviet 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 partner Alexander Tolmachev. Tolmachova was the leading ladies' coach.
She worked in Moscow.
Her husband Alexander Tolmachev headed the Figure Skating Federation of Moscow. Since 1946, Tolmachova worked as a figure skating coach in Young Pioneers Stadium school in Moscow, established with her help.
Among her pupils were Vladimir Kovalev, Elena Tchaikovskaia, Lyudmila Pakhomova, Galina Kuhar, Aleksandr Vedenin, Tatiana Nemtsova, Elena Sheglova, Sergei Chetverukhin, Valentin Piseev.Her brother Valentin Granatkin was a football, hockey and bandy player.