Career
Elena Khalyavina began skating when she was six years old in Kirov. She skated with Alexandr Glyhih for seven years through the senior level In 1999, she moved to Samara and teamed up with Maxim Shabalin.
In 2002, she began her coaching career in her home town in Russia.
In 2011, Elena Dostatni became the director of ice dancing at the Colorado Springs World Arena Ice Hall. (with Shabalin)
(with Shabalin).