Rafael Arutyunyan[1][2] (Armenian: Ռաֆայել Հարությունյան, Harutyunyan; Russian: Рафаэль Владимирович (Гургенович) Арутюнян; born July 5, 1957)[3] is an Armenian-American[4] figure skating coach.

Soviet officials then invited Arutyunyan to Mo, where he worked on his teaching certification and became an assistant to Tatiana Tarasova.

[5] Around 2000 or 2001, Arutyunyan joined the Ice Castle International Training Center, in Lake Arrowhead, California.

[5][2][4] In August 2013, he relocated to the East West Ice Palace in Artesia, California.

[13] In 2019, he took on the role of Head Coach for Higher Performance Team at Great Park Ice & Fivepoint Arena in Irvine, California.