One for all

The legendary coach of Tamara Moskvina on June 26 celebrates the anniversary

The Olympic champion Salt Lake City Anton Sikharulidze calls her Tamarochka. Perhaps it sounds somehow in a pans, but it very accurately describes a charming anniversary, in which at first glance it is difficult to recognize the coach. The intelligent and tactful Muscovite is not like most ice mentors. She does not jump near the side during the performances of her wards. And after - it does not kiss and does not hug them, but only shakes his hand, considering all these calf tendernesses an unnecessary window dressing. He does not criticize the judges, preferring to disassemble their own mistakes. In the end, she does not wear expensive fur, in which her girlfriends in the workshop so love to flaunt. I once asked Tamara Nikolaevna about her “negative” attitude to such outfits. “It was a long time ago Karakulevaya fur coat. They sewed it on order. But only a few times put on. And then she gave her sisters. She is so heavy ... ”, the light and preferring Moskvin costumes will explain and add that in the competitions it is necessary to differ from colleagues.

It differed even when it glided in cold sites. True, a miniature loner by the name of Bratus is poorly remembered. Although Tamarochka, for a minute, is a 5-time champion of the country and inventor, as well as the first performer of Bilman-one of the most difficult rotations in figure skating. In 1965, the hardworking quiet will win (a unique case!) Two gold at once-in a personal and paired category (together with Alexander Gavrilov). However, in the world skate history, of course, she will jump with Alexei Mishin, with whom she forms a sports union at the insistence of her husband and coach Igor Moskvin.

And unexpectedly for many, the Leningrad carriage will not reach the European peak in Westeros. Fans with experience still cannot forget how Mishin’s ceremony was ridiculously seeded next to the fragile beauty volume in a knitted sweater, trousers and civil boots, as he managed to change clothes without hoping for medals. Unfortunately, at the Grenoble-68 Olympics, cute originals will not work out, but at the world fair in Colorado-Springs, they will again decide pens. And a year later, a bright, none -like couple (look at the “gypsy” in their performance), will overcome the invincible to Lyudmila Belousov with Oleg Protopopov and phenomenal spring with Ulanov in the internal championship. And he will decide to leave for the side. Since the Muscovite, as she herself said, was required to defend the dissertation and have children.

She, who had never sitting idle (Alexei Mishin, in one of the interviews, said that his partner did not even chat in the subway, but either engaged in English, or knitted or something noted), in general, everything was on a schedule. And to the coaching, graduating from the Institute of Physical Education named after Lesgft and who gave birth to two daughters Tamarochka came consciously. Although she was complex for quite some time, trying to find her niche and fighting at first, oddly enough, with her dear spouse. By the way, after the pets Tamara Nikolaevna, the future Olympic champions Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, collided at a warm -up with the students of Igor Borisovich - Larisa Selezneva and Oleg Makarov, as a result of which the two Oleg fumulted up, and Makarov who broke the jaw Vasilyeva, was discredited. - Muscovites almost divorced. But that scandalous episode is the only “dark” stain in the career of a wise woman who does not know how to swear and conflict from the word “completely”.

Have you heard that athletes run away from Tamara Nikolaevna with a scandal?

On the contrary, it was to her, capable of lifting to heaven without a whip, that they fled for a blue dream even from behind the ocean.

Remember the Japanese from Funasiba? And even if the director herself believes that with the international tandem, which everyone was initially laughed at, she had a mistake, but Yuko Kawaguti and Alexander Smirnov, two-time Russian champions of Europe.

Do you know how many medals were won by athletes who passed the magical school of the associate professor with Moskvin, on planetary and continental forums, as well as the Olympiads? 63! And in pair skating - this is an absolute record (by the way, Tatyana Tarasova will be included earlier in the Hall of Glory of Figure Arts). But the capture of the pedestals is only, excuse me, one side of the coin.

The genius of the mischievous and perspicacious Tamara Nikolaevna, in my opinion, lies in the fact that she not only raises leaders, composing masterpieces for them, but creates personalities.

For example, with Sasha Boykova and Dima Kozlovsky, the work of Dostoevsky and Blok can be discussed. And this, whatever one may say, is the level. After all, the ice in the life of the jumpers of all stripes, you must agree, will sooner or later melt, and the desire to think will remain.

... The sport of the Muscovite, which her former students, who also became coaches, will never end up with the Moskvo, will never end, it seems, never. In his 80 (!) Little Tamarochka easily makes a rack on his forearms, dashingly drives a car and still leads his children to big victories.