Legendary coach Mishin: Boycott the Olympics? You just need to read the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Mishin Alexey Nikolaevich: biography, career, personal life Mikhail Mishin figure skating coach

Alexey was born in 1941 in Sevastopol. Soon the war began, the Mishin family was evacuated to Ulyanovsk. It was a hungry time, and little Alyosha fell ill with rickets - a disease of malnutrition. He was saved by his mother, who began growing vegetables in a small garden.

After the war, officer Mishin’s family traveled to different cities until they settled in Leningrad, in one room in a communal apartment. In this city, unnoticed, figure skating. It’s just that the father took the children to the skating rink, and one day his older sister saw how much Alyosha liked to skate and gave him skates.

The active boy not only skated on the skating rink - he clung to the truck and performed various dangerous pirouettes, balancing on the slippery road.

Not far from their apartment was the Anichkov Palace, where famous figure skaters came to skate. Alyosha had no idea that he would soon be training with them - he was just studying at school figure skating.

Skater career

Alexey’s first coach was Nina Leplinskaya, the teacher of the first Olympian Nikolai Panin. She gave it to Mishin basic knowledge and skills. At this time, coach Maya Belenkaya was creating her own team of figure skaters, and invited the aspiring athlete to join her. Here he had a meeting with Tamara Moskvina, which determined his entire future professional destiny. The Mishin-Moskvin duo represented the Soviet Union at many competitions:

1968 - silver at the European Championships;

1969 – winners of the USSR championship;

1969 - silver at the World Championships;

1969 – “bronze” at the European Championships.

Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov competed with them in all these tournaments, and they were stronger everywhere. Mishin realized that the prospects of becoming absolute champions he and Moskvina don’t have much, and decided to go into coaching.

And he was not mistaken - five years later his student Yuri Ovchinnikov won the USSR championship. There were real nuggets on his team - for example, Tatyana Oleneva, who also became a champion Soviet Union, participated in European competitions.

In 1976, something incomprehensible happened in the coach’s life: he became “restricted from traveling”, his book was not published, and they stopped inviting him to radio and television. For three years he was in the dark until it became clear that there had been a misunderstanding.

Mishin began to work with enthusiasm: he trained, looked for new techniques. In 1994, the result exceeded expectations: his student Alexey Urmanov won the European and World Championships. Later, the world-famous athlete Evgeni Plushenko received the same titles. And all thanks to innovations and experiments, of which Mishin has always been a supporter.

Now the coach is at a respectable age, but he still skates, teaches students at universities, participates in television shows, and is invited as a consultant to foreign skating teams.

Personal life

We can say that figure skating smoothly flowed into the personal life of Alexei Mishin, because his wife is the same Tatyana Oleneva whom he trained in the 70s. He persuaded her to become a coach women's team Russian figure skaters.

And later they got married and never separated either on the ice or in the family.

Alexey and Tatyana have two sons: Andrey and Nikolay. They are also athletes, only not figure skaters, but tennis players. So the Mishin sports dynasty continues.

“I have a notebook. In it I write down the names of athletes, whom I will take revenge on later.” These words were spoken by Alexey Mishin, an international class wrestler. This man showed the whole world that it is quite possible to remain invincible at 36 years old. In 2004, the athlete managed to win the Olympics held in Athens. At the age of 36, he took second place at the Greco-Roman wrestling championship held in St. Petersburg. Let's dive into the biography of Alexei Mishin and find out what he himself once said.

Alexey Mishin: a lifelong struggle

The athlete was born in the Republic of Mordovia in 1979. Weight category, in which he performs, is up to 84 kilograms. In 2004, the man showed the whole world what he was capable of, winning gold medal on Olympic Games, held in Greece. In 2007, Mishin won the World Greco-Roman Wrestling Championships in Baku. He won the European Championships six times. The last one was in 2013 in Georgia.

Athens and Beijing

Giving an interview to one publication, Alexei Mishin himself admitted that he did not immediately understand what really happened at those Olympic Games: “I was very exhausted, and I just slept the whole next day.” Probably realize that now you Olympic champion, this is incredibly nice.

After his victory, Mishin received a huge number of congratulations, that’s for sure. However, the other side of the coin was the responsibility that fell on the shoulders of the fighter. We all understand that after another champion rises to the podium, there are people who want to take his place. This process is eternal. Break, strangle, win by any means necessary. The wrestler himself admitted this, because he, too, once set out on the path that eventually led him to the title of Olympic champion in Greco-Roman.

Homecoming

Immediately upon his arrival in Mordovia, Mishin was given a Land Cruiser jeep and an apartment. Twelve years have passed, and the wrestler still carefully preserves the memory of these gifts, using them for their intended purpose. The car lasts a long time, and the reason for this is the athlete’s careful attitude towards it. At one time, Mishin also participated in television shows. These were “The Great Race”, for example, and also “Cruel Intentions”. For him it was something like a vacation.

There are a lot of rumors surrounding the Beijing competition. And many still believe that Alexei was condemned. The thing is that initially Mishin had to confront Abrahamyan. But the judges “removed” first our compatriot, and then Ara. Andrea Minguzzi, for whose sake, according to the athletes, this was done, was a relative of the man who at that time headed the wrestling federation. Perhaps then we shouldn’t be surprised by those things that supposedly happened on “logical grounds.”

Alexey Mishin: coach and educator

The coach who trained the future Olympic champion really did a lot. In his fights, Mishin demonstrates not only technique top class, but also entertainment. Throws are no less beautiful as they are executed correctly. And this is precisely the merit of the athlete’s coach.

Mishin himself previously said that he considers Greco-Roman wrestling an integral part of the Olympic Games. He called an imaginary scenario in which this sport was excluded from the list of competitions as a tragedy. Indeed, back in Ancient Greece, where the Olympic Games were born, wrestling already existed. Although in those days they wanted to replace it with another type of test. No one understood why it was necessary to push two men in a certain area. But then the rules were different, there was not enough entertainment. With the development of this sport, the need for the competition to be included in the list of Olympic Games has become mandatory.

Mishin's attitude towards politics is ambiguous. But what does he say about it in a sports context? The athlete believes that there is a lot of it at the Olympics. And the thing is that every country wants its flag to fly above the others. It's nice. However, many are trying to solve these problems through political means rather than through fair competition.

Mishin expressed his gratitude to Vladimir Putin: “The whole world kept saying that we won’t make it in time, we won’t hold the Winter Olympic Games. But we did everything, we did everything. And this is also the merit of our president. We had a great time and performed superbly. We have won a lot of medals and, of course, foreigners don’t like that.”

"Aggressive Conquerors"

Speaking about meetings with Ukrainian rivals, Alexey told how everything really is. According to him, there is no aggression between Ukrainian and Russian wrestlers. Everything happens within the rules, on the mat. As they say, Everything is decided there and only there. That's right, just like real men.

When the athletes go home, after a short hug, they wish each other a successful journey. There are many worthy fighters in Russia who will make their presence known more than once. Alexey Mishin shares this opinion. Greco-Roman wrestling at one time it became for him the path that he chose. Mishin is a role model for many of our athletes. He showed what results can be achieved no matter what if there is a clearly defined goal ahead.

Conclusion

Alexey proved how strong human motivation can be. Before each appearance on the mat, the athlete forgets how old he is, and this helps him fight with any opponent on absolutely equal terms. The fact that even at an inappropriate age you can still become a world-famous champion is what Alexei Mishin proved to us, the fans, and everyone who knows about him.

Honored Master of Sports of the USSR, Honored Coach of Russia, Honored Worker physical culture Russia, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor, coach of the Russian national figure skating team

Born on March 8, 1941 in Sevastopol. Father - Mishin Nikolai Ivanovich. Mother - Delyukina Tatyana Valentinovna. Wife: Tatyana Oleneva, figure skating coach. Sons: Mishin Andrey Alekseevich, Mishin Nikolai Alekseevich - tennis players.

“The origins of my professional creativity are in the origins of my biography,” says A.N. Mishin. “These sources for me were and remain, first of all, my parents, who had a great influence on the formation of my character and education, creativity and professionalism.”

Parents of A.N. The Mishins have known each other since childhood. In Smolensk they lived on neighboring streets, then studied together at Smolensk University, where they listened to lectures by famous professors who often came from Moscow. They played in the theater together.

After graduating from the university, Nikolai Ivanovich was sent to work in the village of Gusino, and Tatyana Valentinovna was assigned to a large city in another region as a technical school teacher. But when she arrived there, it turned out that the place was already taken. Returning to Smolensk, she learned from neighbors that Kolya Mishin had come from Gusino and had places there. So they both ended up in Gusino, where they got married in 1930. In 1932, their daughter Lyudmila was born.

At this time, Nikolai Ivanovich received an invitation to graduate school at Leningrad University. After completing his graduate studies, he was sent as a teacher to the Higher Naval School named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky, and the family moved to Leningrad. This is how the fate of Nikolai Ivanovich changed - he became a military man. Soon he was transferred to Sevastopol, to a new naval school. Tatyana Valentinovna also taught at the school. Here, in Sevastopol, a few months before the start of the Great Patriotic War, their son Alexei was born.

At the beginning of July 1941, the officers of the school were recommended to take their families out of the city. All the Mishins’ relatives remained in Smolensk, where a difficult battle unfolded. There was nowhere to leave Sevastopol. Then a friend of Nikolai Ivanovich advised him to go to his parents in Ulyanovsk. Despite the fact that in Ulyanovsk, in someone else’s house, Tatyana Valentinovna and her children were received warmly and cordially, they barely survived this first year of evacuation. Even my mother’s beautiful crepe de Chine dresses, which were sold at the market at a high price, could not be saved... There was nothing to feed the children. As a result, Alexey developed rickets and the boy might not have survived if not for his mother. In the yard, right in the stones, she knocked out holes, brought soil from the bank of the Volga, poured it into the holes and planted tomatoes. And with these tomatoes I cured my son.

Meanwhile, my father, along with other teachers of the Sevastopol School, was sent to marines. In the fall of 1941, he was transferred to Moscow, and from there to the North-Western Front, where he mainly fought. Then Nikolai Ivanovich was sent as a senior teacher to Solovki, to the cabin school, where, by the way, the future writer Valentin Pikul studied. At the end of the war, he was transferred to Tbilisi, to the newly opened 2nd (after Leningrad) Nakhimov Naval School. My father brought his wife and children from evacuation here. They were accommodated in a broken, cold hotel "Colchis". Soon the Mishins received a nice three-room apartment on a quiet street with small courtyards covered with grapes. But they didn’t live there long - their father was transferred to Leningrad, where they were given a room in a communal apartment on Ruzovskaya Street.

Alexei Mishin's childhood occurred in the harsh post-war years. He grew up as a very dynamic child and spent a lot of time outside.

Father loved to skate and often took Lyudmila and Alexey with him to the skating rink, borrowing skates for them from his friend. Lyudmila, who studied at the university, once received a scholarship and gave her brother “snow maidens.” From that moment on, figure skating entered his life.

Having fastened his snow boots to his felt boots, Alexey walked to the corner of Zagorodny Prospekt and waited for some truck to turn onto their Ruzovskaya street. Clinging to the back, he rolled along with the truck, making arcs and semicircles, avoiding bumps in the road, not thinking at all about what could happen if he didn’t unhook from the truck in time...

One day, passing by the Anichkov Palace, his father saw children skating around a flowerbed. It was there, around this flowerbed, that figure skating appeared in Leningrad immediately after the war, and began its sports career Belousova, Protopopov, Stanislav Zhuk. Nikolai Ivanovich liked it, and he had the idea to send his son to the figure skating section, where wonderful athletes, a whole galaxy of future champions, trained.

After school, Alexey Mishin also became interested in electronics and wanted to become an engineer; in 1964 he graduated from the Leningrad Electromechanical Institute named after V.I. Lenin. But life turned out differently - my passion for figure skating grew into a profession.

Alexey began figure skating in 1956. At that time, this sport became one of the most striking, noticeable phenomena in the life of the country. The Soviet figure skaters faced the question: isn’t it time to try their hand at the international arena?
Alexei Mishin’s first coach was Nina Vasilievna Leplinskaya, a talented teacher, student of the legendary Nikolai Panin, the first Russian Olympic champion. Under her leadership, Alexey quickly mastered the basics of figure skating, and he did it very quickly. At this time, Maya Borisovna Belenkaya, the partner of Igor Borisovich Moskvin, organized her own group at the Iskra stadium, where Mishin was also invited. Tamara Moskvina trained at the same skating rink. And pretty soon they were paired up.

The sports careers of Mishin and Moskvina were successful. They won the USSR Championship (1969), became silver medalists at the World Championship (1969) and the European Championship (1968) - the championship was then firmly held by Belousov and Protopopov. Mishin and Moskvina took part in many competitions, literally stepping on the heels of the famous duet, but they have not yet managed to surpass him. The moment when Mishin and Moskvina beat Belousova and Protopopov for the first time is one of the most striking in their sports life. Then they left the legendary duo behind twice more at other competitions.

Soviet figure skaters achieved remarkable success in 1969: at the European and World Championships they won the entire podium in pair skating for the first time. At the European Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Irina Rodnina and Alexey Ulanov won gold medals for the first time, followed by Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov and the duet of Alexey Mishin and Tamara Moskvina. In Colorado Springs at the World Championships, Mishin and Moskvina swapped places with the duet Belousov - Protopopov (“golden” again were Irina Rodnina and Alexey Ulanov).

“Tamara Moskvina and I could, of course, stay in the top three for a few more years, but that wouldn’t add anything,” says A.N. Mishin. - And we decided to leave. We ended our career without any of the painful phenomena that happen to an athlete when he leaves big sport.”

Having left sports, A. Mishin and T. Moskvina took up coaching activities. In 1969 they performed last season. And already in 1975, student A.N. Mishina Yuri Ovchinnikov became the champion of the Soviet Union. His group gathered a whole cohort of strong young athletes: Zhanna Ilyina, Lenya Kazankov, Vitalik Egorov (world champion among juniors). To A.N. Mishin came to train and his future wife Tatyana Oleneva, who became the champion of the Soviet Union, competed at the European Championships.
Women's figure skating in the USSR at that time lagged far behind other types of figure skating. To strengthen this sport, special groups for gifted girls were organized in Moscow and Leningrad on the basis of trade unions. The Sports Committee asked A.N. Mishin to lead the Leningrad group. And he, in turn, invited Tatyana Oleneva to work together, telling her that it was time to think about the future. They soon got married, and a year later their first son, Andrei, was born. Tatyana Oleneva got serious about coaching work, and in 1979 her students took 2nd and 3rd places at the World Junior Championships.

Before the Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Alexei Mishin, who by that time was the coach of the USSR national team, was surprised to learn that he had become “restricted from traveling abroad.” The book “Figure Skating for Everyone” (50 thousand copies) that he had handed over to Lenizdat the day before and had already been printed was destroyed (three years later the book was finally published). There were no official explanations (according to rumors, someone wrote a denunciation against him). The intrigue continued. Mishin was no longer shown on television. But training was not prohibited. He remained the coach of the USSR national team. His students competed at the European and World Championships, and he found out about everything only by phone. For three years (1976–1978) no one received him; they were afraid to talk to him, not knowing what to answer...

Everything was decided by one call. Mishin made an appointment with the manager Soviet sports Sergei Pavlov and told him about his misadventures. Pavlov asked his secretary to connect him with Boris Ivanovich Aristov, the first secretary of the city committee... When Mishin returned from Moscow to Leningrad, his “case” had already been removed from the “black cabinet”.

“Why did I take the collapse of the Soviet empire positively? – writes A.N. Mishin in his autobiographical story “About Time and About Myself.” – Because we received freedom that our parents did not have. Freedom is a constructive principle; it predetermines progress and pushes people forward.”

At A.N. Mishina has begun new era in life, a new generation of talented students, among them Olympic champion (1994), European champion, repeated champion of Russia Alexey Urmanov; Alexey Yagudin – Olympic champion (2002), four-time world champion, three-time European champion, multiple medalist of Russian championships; Evgeni Plushenko is a two-time Olympic champion (2006, 2014), three-time world champion (2001, 2003, 2004), seven-time European champion (2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012), ten-time Russian champion and many others. “A coach who has trained at least one Olympic champion can believe that it was not in vain that he was born and that he became a coach for a reason,” says Alexey Nikolaevich.

A.N. Mishin is convinced that creative searches in figure skating have no limits. “Where they end, the talent of the coach ends. In figure skating, it is quite stupid to live by nostalgia, since everything that is created in movement quickly becomes outdated. The most important and terrible mistake of a trainer is when he begins to teach a student “to suit himself.” Because no matter how outstanding an athlete you are, a year or two after you finish skating, figure skating will move forward. And teaching “for yourself” is a grave mistake. We must teach for the future, for the future, to see the direction of development... We must teach as no one has ever taught, and then you will be a champion.” In this search, he not only used all his knowledge and many years of experience. Possessing some exceptional sense of the future tense, A.N. Mishin developed and theoretically substantiated a completely new technique for figure skater multi-rotation jumps, and created a new technique of execution. The result exceeded all expectations. His students continue to charm the hearts of more and more fans of this sport, remaining in the memory of spectators for many, many years.

Alexey Nikolaevich heads the department of speed skating and figure skating at the St. Petersburg State Academy of Physical Culture named after P.F. Lesgafta. He is the author of a textbook on figure skating for universities and several books.

A.N. Mishin - Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1969), Honored Coach of the USSR, Russia, Ukrainian SSR, Honored Worker of Physical Culture of Russia (2002), Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences (1973), Professor (1990), Member of the Coaching Council of the Russian Figure Skating Federation, coach Russian national figure skating team. He was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th class, the Order of Friendship of Peoples, the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class, and the honorary badge of Merit for St. Petersburg.

Alexey Nikolaevich likes to spend his free time outside the city. Hobbies include cooking, fishing, construction, and gardening. He loves dogs - he has two Asian Shepherds at home.
Lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Alexey Nikolaevich Mishin. Born on March 8, 1941 in Sevastopol. Soviet figure skater, performed in pairs skating with Tamara Moskvina, silver medalist of the World and European Championships, champion of the USSR. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR (1969). Honored Coach of the USSR. Honored Trainer of Russia. Honored Trainer of the Ukrainian SSR. Honored Worker of Physical Culture Russian Federation (2002).

Father - Nikolai Ivanovich Mishin, military sailor, teacher at the naval school.

Mother - Tatyana Valentinovna Delyukina.

Older sister - Lyudmila.

After the end of the war, the family lived in Tbilisi and then in Leningrad, where Alexey grew up.

He was put on skates by his father, who himself loved to skate and often took his children to the skating rink.

He started figure skating late - in 1956. His father sent him to the section at the Palace of Pioneers to keep his son off the streets. The first coach was Nina Vasilievna Leplinskaya.

Then he studied with Maya Petrovna Belenkaya. The latter recalled: “By that time, his peers - Kurenbin, Fomin - were already performing in the masters, and Lesha only had the second adult category. He understood well that the kids there were much stronger, they were ready to compete at the Union championship, and he was lagging behind them ". Mom and dad brought him to me... As a coach, I was not at all interested in this. How much work with him does it take for him to create a name for the coach! “Okay,” I say, “I’ll take it.” Just let me first check what he can do." And when Alexey demonstrated his jumps, the coach realized that she had talent in front of her. Belenkaya said: "I was stunned. I say: “Lyosha! Where have you been? You should have come sooner, you would have reached such heights now, international competitions traveled. And now I can’t guarantee anything, you missed the time.”

Alexey Mishin quickly began to show good results and catch up with peers. He completed the first category, went to the Union championship as a candidate master, and competed with adults.

Mishin's strong point was almost ballet stretching and excellent jumping ability. Alexey had outstanding figures for figure skating, but due to the fact that he came to the sport late, he was unable to achieve outstanding results in it as a single skater. His best achievement was 3rd place at the 1964 USSR Championship.

Then there was bronze at the European Championship and silver at the World Championship.

After the 1969 season, Moskvina and Mishin left the sport.

In 1969 he graduated from the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute named after. V. I. Ulyanova (Lenin), Faculty of Automation and Computer Engineering.

I became interested in the theoretical development of rotational movements in figure skating techniques and began to study these processes from the standpoint of biomechanics. His father, a specialist in theoretical mechanics, pushed him to this. Alexey began to think about how to combine theoretical mechanics and figure skating.

Since 1973, he worked as a teacher at the GDOIFK named after P.F. Lesgafta. He graduated from graduate school at the Leningrad State Twice Order-Bearing Institute of Physical Education named after. P. F. Lesgaft (GDOIFC named after P. F. Lesgaft). Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences (1973). He combined his coaching work with teaching at the St. Petersburg Academy of Physical Culture - head of the department of speed skating and figure skating at the St. Petersburg State Academy of Physical Culture. P. F. Lesgaft. Professor (1990).

At first coaching career Trained in the USA with Carlo Fassi, in Germany with Jutta Müller, he mastered the most complex elements and skating techniques and training methods by studying with such masters as Stanislav Zhuk, Igor Moskvin.

As I was engaged in coaching work, a unique technique Mishina - the theory was introduced into practice in classes with students. Alexey Nikolaevich managed to create his own school of figure skating, in which he successfully applies his scientific developments.

There were many difficult moments in the life of Alexei Mishin. So, in the mid-1970s, a denunciation was written against him. In 1976, Mishin was blocked from traveling abroad. A ban was imposed on mentioning his name in the press, and his book, which had just been printed in 50 thousand copies, was put under the knife. The disgrace lasted almost three years.

Mishin's students won the most high places at the Olympics, World and European Championships.

Among the students of Alexei Mishin: Alexander Mayorov, Marina Serova, Anna Antonova (silver medalist of the USSR championship), Vitaly Egorov (world champion among juniors), Tatyana Oleneva (USSR champion), Yuri Ovchinnikov (USSR champion, bronze medalist of the European championship), (Olympic champion, European champion, multiple champion of Russia), Oleg Tataurov (repeated winner of Russian championships), Ruslan Novoseltsev (winner Winter Universiade), Tatyana Basova (bronze medalist of the Russian championship), (Olympic champion, four-time world champion, three-time European champion, multiple medalist of the Russian championships), (two-time Olympic champion, three-time world champion, seven-time European champion and ten-time Russian champion), Andrey Lutai ( multiple winner of the Russian Championships), Ksenia Doronina (two-time Russian champion), Katarina Gerboldt (bronze medalist of the Russian Championship), Artur Gachinsky (bronze medalist of the World Championship, silver medalist of the European Championship), (world champion, European champion, winner of the Grand Prix Final, champion of Russia, champion of the 1st Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck), Alexander Petrov (bronze medalist of the Grand Prix final among juniors), Carolina Kostner (bronze medalist of the Olympic Games, world champion, five-time champion Europe, eight-time champion of Italy), (European champion 2019).

Alexey Mishin himself said about his work: “I myself only realized over time that a strong coach is not one who has very strong sides, but one who has no weaknesses. If there is a gaping hole somewhere in an athlete’s preparation, then in an extreme situation everything that has been accumulated over the years can easily fall into this hole. I have seen examples many times. When I started working myself, the most difficult thing was to weigh the proportional importance of different components: how many lifts, steps, rotations there should be. How much attention should be paid to the purity of edge skating in compulsory figures, and how much to the geometry of the figures themselves. Finding this balance is not so easy... You don’t have to be famous - people intuitively feel if a coach has a spark of God. The students begin to “float” themselves. And only then, in this oversaturated student’s solution, crystals and crystals inevitably begin to appear.”.

He has numerous awards: Order of Friendship of Peoples (April 22, 1994) - for high sporting achievements at the XVII Winter Olympic Games in 1994; Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (2002); Honorary Diploma of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg (2002); Badge of Honor of the Russian Figure Skating Federation (2003); Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (October 21, 2010) - for the successful preparation of athletes who achieved high sporting achievements at the XXI Olympic Games winter games ah 2010 in Vancouver (Canada); Honorary Badge “For Services to St. Petersburg” (2011); Certificate of Honor from the President of the Russian Federation (2011) - for achieved labor successes, many years of conscientious work and active social activities; Honorary title “Best in Sports of St. Petersburg” (2006 and 2012, Government of St. Petersburg); Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (March 24, 2014) - for great contribution to the organization of preparation and conduct XXII Olympic and the XI Paralympic Winter Games 2014 in Sochi and ensuring the successful performance of Russian national teams.

Personal life of Alexey Mishin:

Married. Wife - Tatyana Nikolaevna Mishina (nee Oleneva; born June 16, 1954), figure skater, 1973 USSR champion in women's single skating, Master of Sports of the USSR. She was a student of Mishin. For several years he sought Tatyana's attention. Then they got married. Since 1975 they have been working in tandem.

The marriage produced two sons: Andrei (born in 1977) and Nikolai (born in 1983).

Sports achivments Alexey Mishin:

World Championships: silver (1969) - pair skating
European Championships: silver (1968), bronze (1969) - pair skating
USSR Championships: gold (1969), silver (1967, 1968) - pair skating
Winter Universiade: bronze (1966) - pair skating

Filmography of Alexey Mishin:

1967 - Patterns on Ice (documentary)
1969 - Patterns on Ice (documentary)
1971 - This Amazing Sport (documentary)
1976 - Meetings on Medeo (uncredited)
1977 - The most important moments (documentary)
2007 - Tamara Moskvina’s captivity on ice (documentary)
2011 - Alexey Mishin. Torn between the stars (documentary)

Bibliography of Alexey Mishin:

1971 - Kinematic structure of some skater movements
1972 - Basic elements of the figure skater’s multi-turn jump technique
1973 - On the parameters of the rotational movement of the figure skater’s body
1976 - Jumping in figure skating
1979 - Figure skating school
1981 - Biomechanics of figure skater movements
1985 - Mandatory exercises in figure skating
2007 - Figure skating in Russia. Facts, events, destinies

Alexey Mishin photography

– I hope that the pause will not last long, and in the fourth anniversary that awaits us, I will introduce a bright athlete or athlete to the world of figure skating.

– Even a great athlete finds it difficult without good coach. How does a great coach feel without a great student?

– One Eastern philosopher said: if you want to climb new mountain, you must first go down from the previous one. I descended from the previous peak, but I don’t feel like I’m stuck in a swamp.

– Is the new Plushenko growing up already?

– It would be my mistake to announce. I've never done this. I have guys with whom my wife Tatyana and I work and who can bring a surprise. Why don’t I want to single out anyone? The fact is that I never take one athlete, I take a group of athletes. This is my technique. When you start from scratch, a team is necessary. I once had a group where Urmanov, Yagudin, Novoseltsev, Tataurov, Shashkov trained and then only Plushenko, whom everyone beat, but he stretched, scraped, made his way... It’s the same now. My athletes are quite young, and it’s difficult to say what will come of them. Each of them has some bright side. One takes excellent steps, another rotates well, the third is emotional, the fourth is stronger, the fifth is more psychologically stable... There is one person in the group who accumulates all these strengths in himself. And it just spills out to the top. And if I throw the athlete forward, attach sails to his body and start blowing in them, this will be my biggest mistake in life.

– Is Zhenya himself coming back or not?

– He really wants to return, and if financial support is provided to him, he will begin serious training in July, as all skaters do.

Best of the day

– In other words, Plushenko needs a sponsor?

– You know, one of our very famous synchronized swimmers, Olympic champion said: “To walk this path again is a feat.” But real exploits must be properly reinforced. The president of our federation, Valentin Piseev, says that a member of the national team today receives from three to five thousand rubles. This is not an incentive. Zhenya wants to return, so help him continue his career. Moreover, in this case, Zhenya simply physically will not have time to skate in various kinds of ice shows and do business.

– Do you think it’s right that the champions are returning?

– The champion is a crystal! This is a sample! They learn from it. I think that the presence of those champions who have left but can skate would be desirable for figure skating. And by the way, I believe in our bright future. You just need to transfer from Zaporozhets to Formula 1 cars. Then we will compete on equal terms with today's leaders.

-Will they allow it? One of those who “went very far from everyone” this season, Brian Joubert, said that he absolutely does not care whether Plushenko returns or not.

– All the questions about Zhenya’s return and the past season as a whole gave me one thought. The people who surround us, including you, journalists, are divided into two groups. Some say: “Oh, oh, oh! How good, not a single medal!” I don't like those. They are wrong. After all, it is better to receive medals for forty years and then not receive them for one year, than to never have anything. And others look at this issue constructively and analyze the process. Yes, there are no miracles. The team lost three leaders after the Turin Games. This is a blow. And after such a blow it takes time to recover. As for Joubert... He has one serious argument - two quadruple sheepskin coats and a quadruple Salchow. In all other respects, he can be beaten easily. His steps are devoid of design, his rotations do not contain a single interesting pose.

– If we return to the situation in our figure skating as a whole, then, for example, the head of the federation Valentin Piseev believes: the problem is that the country now has a bad situation with coaches. Not in the sense that there is no one to train, but in the fact that right now we are beginning to reap the benefits of the mass departure of our specialists in previous years. If we take, for example, a dance tournament at last championship world, so out of the 24 best duets, 17 were prepared by our coaches.

– Yes, our coaches left, but what else could they do? Tell me, could Rostropovich not leave? Or should Fetisov not play in the NHL? Or should Baryshnikov not dance? When the country went downhill, figure skating went up in price sharply. And the people who decided to take this step in order to survive managed to place their knowledge acquired here and there at a very high financial and organizational level. Therefore, now all our prospects can become real only if we create a federal target program to support figure skating. We cannot survive today without her. Boys and girls who come to figure skating schools should learn from the example of others. Ideally, every school should have a card index of recordings of the performances or training of the greats. There will be a need to analyze every step on the ice - go and look. Nobody sees anything here. You need a lounge to learn jumps. And I wear it at 66 years old to a guy who weighs over 60 kilograms. And if I drag, that means I’m not training. If I stand on the ice with a camera, I don’t train again. You need someone to film, “drag”, suggest... By the way, all this happened before. And now we simply need to organize this entire educational and training process at the school level. Because everything is born at the school level.

– To summarize, it’s not only Plushenko who needs a good sponsor.

– The production costs ten thousand dollars today. free program. If you don’t have that kind of money, you can put it in for three thousand rubles. Invite a tutor from school... But then the program will cost three thousand rubles. My student Alexey Urmanov is the father of three children. To support his family and prepare his own students, he must dance with the stars, in other various shows protrude. I can provide for myself so that I can work again later, training children. Where has this been seen? So it turns out that coaches in Russia “sell” their name, earn money on the side in order to educate athletes. For example, no matter how many people I transported abroad, I paid myself, my name paid. But this is not a solution. I invited a plumber from the Yubileiny Sports Palace, where I work, to my home; I needed to fix something. In between, he told me that he receives 15 thousand rubles a month. The salary of the honored coach who is now in front of you is 14 thousand 100 rubles. Draw your own conclusions.