Background
Maria Nikolaevna was born on May 22, 1946 in Moscow.
Maria Nikolaevna was born on May 22, 1946 in Moscow.
In 1968 Maria Nikolaevna graduated with honours from the Institute of Physical Culture (SCOLIPE). In 1987 she defended her Candidate’s thesis (her scientific supervisor was Yu.I. Smirnov), devoted to the issues of objectification of judging in artistic sports.
After graduation from SCOLIPE Maria Nikolaevna became a lecturer at the Department of Swimming. In 1987 she was invited to work in the synchronized swimming national team as the head of an integrated scientific group. In 1985 the national team of the USSR was trained for the World Cup in Atlanta by the chief coach Olga Vasilchenko and Maria Maksimova. Irina Pershina has become the most successful from the next generation of Maximova's students.
Maksimova’s performances on the water were memorable both in circus performances (1980/81, 1985/86 and 1989/90), and during the first World Youth Games held in Moscow in 1998, when for the first time, in addition to the solemn opening ceremony, the opening ceremony of the competitions in water sports took place in the pool of Olimpiyskiy.
From the very beginning Maria Nikolaevna Maksimova did everything to ensure that the Department of Swimming of SCOLIPE remained one of the strong points of the national synchronized swimming. The Department of Swimming was the first in the country with a specialization in "synchronized swimming" and with theoretical, methodological, and practical course provided by professor Maria Nikolaevna Maksimova.
Maria Nikolaevna participated in 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney as coach of the national team of Italy. Two years of work with Virginia Dede (2001-2002) after the departure of Olga Brusnikina have resulted in the French athlete becoming European Champion and later World Champion in solo performances. The national team of Spain with Maksimova’s compositions became one of the prize-winners of the World Championship.
Banasyak Nikolay Nikolaevich is a professional driver, participant of the Great Patriotic War.
Valentina Mikhailovna worked in the State Bank of the USSR, during the war she was a toiler of the rear.
Vladimir Nikolaevich is a Honored Coach of Russia, Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, researcher of the State Institute for Art Studies of Russia, film and theater critic.
Nikita Vladimirovich graduated from the First Moscow State Medical Institute, works as a vascular surgeon in the 57th Moscow city hospital, in the department of the well-known vascular surgeon I.I. Zatevakhin.
She is a synchronized swimming coach at Moscow City Physical Culture and Sports Association, as a coach-director she is working with the national teams of Spain, Israel, the Netherlands, France and Canada.
