Biography of Ulanova Alexei

Born on November 4 in Moscow. Soviet skater who performed in pair skating. Olympic champion paired with Irina Rodnina. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR Alexei Ulanov was born on November 4 in Moscow. From the age of seven, he began to engage in figure skating at the stadium of young pioneers in Moscow. In parallel from an early age, for 10 years he was engaged in music in the Bayan class, and graduated from the Gnesin Musical School.

At first, he rode like a loneliness, as well as paired with his sister Elena. He invited him to go to CSKA, where the training conditions were better: there was the only modern standard rink with artificial ice in the USSR, which allowed to train year -round. There was another important circumstance: Ulanov was seriously engaged in music, finished Gnesinka, and after the school, having received the distribution to the Artek pioneer camp, he had to work there for three years there.

I would have to forget about figure skating. Therefore, the transition to CSKA allowed him to stay in sports and in Moscow, in addition, in the same place he was serving in the army. However, the transition to the beetle resulted in a family scandal: he had to leave his sister Elena, with whom they rode in a couple. Alexey Ulanov recalled: "Lena was offended, my mother too. The scandal broke out.

I collected things and left the house. For two years, then my mother and I did not communicate." At the first European Championship after a short program - others, but the arbitrary is unsuccessful 5th place. The beetle more and more complicates their program, including a parallel jump for the first time in the history of parallel skiing and a combination of jumping. At the Moscow skates tournament, the couple is the second, and at the USSR championship in January, in the acute struggle, takes 3 place.

At the European Championship, the couple came without a coach to the bug, but it makes a sensation and, despite the 2nd place in the mandatory program where the couple lost to Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov, ultimately occupies the first place thanks to the more complex elements and high pace of execution of the arbitrary program, and 8 judges out of 9 were given the first place.

At the World Rodnin and Ulans Championship, they have already won for obvious The advantage, having won both types of competitions, having received all the first places from judges. However, in the next year, at the USSR championship in Kyiv, Rodnina and Ulanov is extremely unsuccessful in the mandatory program, with two gross errors, taking only 8th place in this form. Nevertheless, after a pure arbitrary program, they won Belousov - Protopopov, who were the first, but in the end only 4, subsequently declared judicial conspiracy.

Alexey Ulanov and Irina Rodnina Irina and Alexei were the only couple in the world at that time, in the arsenal of which a parallel double axel and a combination of jumps appeared. Their skating was overwhelmed by a vortex pace, complex supports, intricate paths. Further, Rodnina and Ulanov continued to win all the competitions in which they participated, but Rivalry with the second Soviet pair Lyudmila Smirnov, Andrei Suraykin, becomes increasingly acute.

At the Olympics of the year in Sapporo in a short program of Ulanov, instead of a compulsory double Salkhov, made a single, in an arbitrary Rodin, he made a mistake at the cascade of jumps, as a result, Suraykin, Suraikin, was ahead of only two voices of the judges. After Sapporo, Rodnina and Ulanova had only one joint start - the World Cup in Kalgary. There was a terrible one.

The day before, Irina fell with support and received a serious concussion with intracranial hematoma. But the couple still went out on the ice and won another gold. The couple rolled the short program cleanly, having received grades up to 6.0, in arbitrary Irina felt bad, completed the program in a half -fainting state. Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov after the World Cup, the couple broke up.

Alexei Ulanov married Lyudmila Smirnova and formed a couple with her. Ulanov wanted to ride with Smirnova for a long time. Irina Rodnina said: “Despite the fact that Ulanov and I spent a lot of time together, we did not have a romantic relationship at all. Whatever the people spoke there. In the sixty -eighth year, a funny situation arose. Leshka calls me and says:“ You know, I’m leaving for Leningrad.

I will ride with Luda Smirnova. ”I have reacted to him:“ Well, I have reacted to him calmly. Our first European Championship has just passed, at which we did not particularly noted. I can’t say that I was pleased to hear this, but the fact that for me his act could become a tragedy - I didn’t have such a thought. That year, my parents just tuned me to study well at a special school and prepare at the institute.

And for me, studying seemed the most important thing in life. In no way figure skating. The only thing I asked: “Does Lyuda know about it? I only said: “Well, well. Just two days later, and it was too late, which was a big surprise for our family, no one called us so late, - Ulanov appeared again.And he said in a very nervous voice: “How do you look at the fact that I will offer you again to ride a couple?

Ulanov himself said like this: “I wanted to ride with Lyudmila Smirnova for a long time and for a long time invited her to unite in a couple. I wrote a letter to Leningrad, but he was intercepted by her then partner Andrei Suraykin. Apparently, Smirnova wrote a response letter to me under which she refused me. I think she was convinced that out of envy I want to break their successful pair.

But I did not step back - I bought a plane ticket to Leningrad. Knowing the address, I found Lyudmila’s apartment. There again invited her to choose between me and her partner. And this time Lyudmila preferred Andrei. After that, we did not talk for four years. "But in M ​​they still began to ride together. Lyudmila Smirnova and Alexei Ulanov had to make a lot of effort to refute the famous axiom:“ You can’t harness a horse and a reverent doe.

”After all, the style of a pair of Rodnin - Ulanov was fundamentally opposite to their closest rivals. But, as already mentioned, Alexei dreamed of Alexei. It was a pair of other harmony that the dream of Alexei about the harmonious elegant pair is close to implementation, but the lyric-dramatic style that these skaters professed did not bring them to the peaks that they were not without the basis of the only victory of this duet.

All their other awards were silver and bronze dignity. After the season of the year, Lyudmila and Alexei left amateur sport and for a short time performed in the Moscow ballet on ice, and in the year they became soloists of the Leningrad ensemble “Ballet on Ice”, where they worked for 15 years. Alexei Ulanov also graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory at the choreographer. In the year, they and their children, who followed in the footsteps of their parents and also became skaters, left for the USA, where they worked in the Rey of Holid On Ice for up to a year.

Then they switched to coaching. In the year, Alexei Ulanov returned to Russia. Lives in Moscow. He began to give master classes in various cities of the country and actively work out the idea of ​​creating a school for figure skating on plastic ice. Growth by Alexei Ulanov: centimeters. We got married in the year.

Divorced the year. In marriage, two children were born - the son of Nikolai and the daughter Irina. Son Nikolai Ulanov is a master of sports in figure skating. For ten years, he was the soloist of the ice show "Holid on Ice" and "Disney On Ice". Then he founded the Dynasty figure skating school in St. Petersburg. The daughter of Irina Ulanova - a master of sports in figure skating, tried her strength in paired skating with Alexander Smirnov and Maxim Trankov.

Not having achieved great success in sports, Irina ended her career and for six years performed in the show “Disney On Ice”. Alexey Ulanov and Lyudmila Smirnova Alexei Ulanov and Lyudmila Smirnova with the children with Alexei Ulanova during his sports career was an affair with the East German skater Gabi Zeiphart Gabriele Seyfert, who performed in a female single -solitary category, a silver medalist European champion.

In a second marriage, a son was born. When quoting and using materials, a link to Stuki-Druki-Druki pits. When quoting and using Hyperlink Hyperlink Hyperlink on the Internet or Stuki-Druki.