Nelli Alexeyevna Chervotkina, later surname Pylkina (Russian: Нелли Алексеевна Червоткина Пылькина) is a former pair skater for the Soviet Union.
With Viktor Teslia, she is the 1979 Prague Skate champion, 1982 Skate America bronze medalist, and 1983 Winter Universiade champion.
[1][2] Their coaches were Ludmila Velikova and Aleksandr Vlasov.
She was based in Lidköping and Linköping before moving to the Stockholm region.
[4] In August 1990, she gave birth in Saint Petersburg to her daughter Angelika Pylkina, who would become a pair skater for Sweden.