Career
She also worked with Viacheslav Zagorodniuk and Takeshi Honda early in their careers, and briefly coached Georgian skater Elene Gedevanishvili in 2007 and Swiss skater Stéphane Lambiel in 2008. Zmievskaya"s older daughter, Nina, is married to Viktor Petrenko and has choreographed for many of Zmievskaya"s students. She has a second daughter, also named Galina and known as Galya.
Zmievskaya"s husband, Nikolai, was a building contractor in Odessa.
In addition to coaching Oksana Baiul, Zmievskaya acted as her guardian following the death of her mother.