Viktor Ivanovich Teslia (Russian: Виктор Иванович Тесля) is a former pair skater for the Soviet Union.
With Nelli Chervotkina, he is the 1979 Prague Skate champion, 1982 Skate America bronze medalist, and 1983 Winter Universiade champion.
[3] Teslia moved to England in the 1990s after being hired as a skating coach in Chelmsford.
[4][5] In the 1998–99 season, he coached British men's champion Clive Shorten and the pairs' silver and bronze medalists, Katie Wenger / Daniel Thomas and Sarah Kemp / Michael Aldred.
[5] As of August 2016, he is a Level 3 coach in the U.K.[6] His son, Kiril, was born in the late 1980s.