Elena Anatolyevna Tchaikovskaia, also spelled as Chaykovskaya or Chaikovskaia is a Russian figure skating coach and choreographer.
Background
Elena Tchaikovskaia was born in Moscow in a family of theatre actors. Her father worked in Mossovet Theatre. Since childhood she was prepared to become an actor, even starred with her father Anatoliy Osipov in several Soviet films, such as Schastlivyy reys.
Education
Russian University of Theatre Arts.
Career
She runs a skating school at the Yantar Sports Center, built in 2010 in the Strogino District west of Moscow. She coaches in collaboration with Vladimir Kotin, her former pupil. She had unhealthy lungs, so father took her to the ice rink, believing skating would help her to improve health.
After school s decided to attend the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (Russian University of Theatre Arts), ballet master faculty.
In 1960 she retired from competitions and started working as choreographer and later as a coach. Since 1997 she served as the Russian Olympic committee"s main coach.
She also coaches national figure skating team Among her current and former students are
Vladimir Kotin
Vladimir Kovalev
Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponossov
Lyudmila Pakhomova / Aleksandr Gorshkov
Margarita Drobiazko / Povilas Vanagas
Maria Butyrskaya
Viktoria Volchkova
Sergei Davydov
Andrei Lezin
Kristina Gorshkova / Vitali Butikov
Alexandra Maksimova / Egor Maistrov
Emma Hagieva
The Russian Academy of Theatre Arts has a special faculty for former sportsmen and figure skaters who are willing to become coaches.
lieutenant is headed by Elena Tchaikovskaia and was formerly headed by Tchaikovskaia"s student Lyudmila Pakhomova.
Tchaikovskaia also heads a skating school in Moscow called "Skate of Tchaikovskaia" (Russian: Конёк Чайковской). Drobiazko and Vanagas, as well as Julia Soldatova and Kristina Oblasova trained in "Skate of Tchaikovskaia" school. Famous for her ice dancing pairs, in 2007, she stated that personally thinks that single skating is far more important and difficult.
She is more involved in single skating, though says that she may return to ice dancing someday.
She has written several books about training of figure skaters, for example, Konek Udachi (Russian: Конёк удачи, lit "A skate of luck"), which was published in 1994. In 2007, a documentary about her was released in Russia titled Her Ice Majesty.
Elena Tchaikovskaia (Russian: Ее ледовое Величество Елена Чайковская) directed by Oleg Moroseev.