Tatiana Tarasova

Tatiana Anatolyevna Tarasova (Russian: Татьяна Анатольевна Тарасоваⓘ; born 13 February 1947) is a Russian figure skating coach and national figure skating team adviser.

Tatiana Tarasova is the daughter of Anatoly Tarasov, a famed ice hockey coach, who introduced her to figure skating at the age of five.

Tarasova competed in pair skating with Aleksandr Tikhomirov[2] and Georgi Proskurin.

Her most notable students have been Alexei Yagudin, Ilia Kulik, Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin, Oksana Grishuk / Evgeni Platov, Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov, Marina Klimova / Sergey Ponomarenko, and Irina Rodnina / Alexander Zaitsev.

A notorious chain smoker, Tarasova was known for smoking cigarettes during her coaching sessions.