Boris KhodorovskyAll materialsAfter the post of Diana Davis and Gleb Smolkin on your page on the social network, you can officially call Alexei Kilyakov and Elena Novak the new coaches of the dancers of the Russian national team. It is curious that Eteri Tutberidze performed with Alexei Kilyakov at one time. It is unnecessary for fans of figure skating to remind that she is Diana's mother. I had a chance to get acquainted with American coaches who speak Russian perfectly at the 2015 Junior World Championships, held in Tallinn. The name of Tutberidze after the Olympic triumph of Yulia Lipnitskaya in Sochi was already thundering then. In the capital of Estonia, her students Evgenia Medvedeva and Serafima Sakhanovich took first and second places, and Adyan Pitkeev was fifth in the junior competition. Then it was regarded as a success. Sema Uno became the champion, and Nathan Chen took fourth place. Knowing that Kilyakov was paired with Tutberidze, he ventured to ask him if the partner then showed the qualities of a future outstanding coach. “What are you talking about?” Alexey answered. “We were then focused on sporting achievements. We didn’t even think about coaching.”
