Galina Zmievskaya

[4] She began coaching American skater and three-time U.S. national champion Johnny Weir in the summer of 2007.

[5] Another one of her students is Dave Lease, cofounder and host of The Skating Lesson, who is the 2021 US Adult Bronze I/III Champion.

Following Baiul's win at the 1994 Winter Olympics, Zmievskaya accepted an invitation to go to the United States to coach at the International Skating Center of Connecticut, in Simsbury.

After a decade working there,[6] she relocated to Wayne, New Jersey in 2005, along with her daughter Nina and son-in-law Viktor Petrenko.

In January 2015, Oksana Baiul publicly accused her former coach Galina Zmievskaya, along with Viktor Petrenko and their manager, Joseph Lemire, of fraud, claiming they 'have been stealing money' from her for more than a decade.