Gala concert of Tatyana Tarasova. Ice show by I. Averbukh "Tatyana Tarasova

In the centuries-old history of the Russian state, everyone knows Catherine the Great, who significantly strengthened our Empire on the world stage! The twentieth century gave us a Woman who rightfully deserved the title of Great - her achievements in significance can be put on a par with the sovereign ruler of the 18th century! This is an outstanding figure skating coach who brought up a record number of Olympic champions, victors of the World Championships, Europe and many other competitions - Tatyana Anatolyevna Tarasova!

For decades, Tarasova's students have won victories in various competitions, and many, after the end of their sports career, have become coaches themselves, educate the younger generation, continuing the traditions laid down by their wise Teacher, sensitive Mentor and kind Friend!

Tarasova for her students is more than just a coach, she is like a second mother for them, strict and demanding, but loyal and fair, always ready to help and lend a strong shoulder.

On February 13, Tatyana Anatolyevna turned 70 years old, and on February 17-18 at the Rossiya State Central Concert Hall in Luzhniki, the anniversary of the Great Tarasova was celebrated on a grand scale with a large-scale show!

The director and inspirer of the Tatyana Tarasova 7.0 gala concert was Ilya Averbukh, who has long established himself not only as a talented figure skater who has achieved a worldwide calling, but also as a virtuoso director, choreographer, organizer and producer. Ilya Averbukh is the undisputed leader in the genre of ice performances, his projects always attract the attention of the public, winning hearts and souls!

Tarasova's anniversary show, staged by Averbukh, was a surprise both for herself and for the thousands of spectators who were lucky enough to be in the stands these days!

The original concept of a virtuoso choreographer combined the worlds of figure skating, music, vocals, choreography, ballet and many other arts.

According to the finely crafted scenography of a skilled director The action took place on several levels at once. On huge screens, a pre-prepared and thought-out video sequence with archive footage and recordings was shown, step by step reflecting the creative and personal path of Tatyana Anatolyevna and her students. On one part of the stage, impromptu furnished as a birthday girl's apartment, the hospitable hostess received congratulations, shared her innermost memories, and thanked her friends and colleagues. An orchestra was located on the other half of the stage, the best musicians and singers performed, to the compositions of which skaters from different eras and generations presented amazing numbers on the ice arena, like soaring birds that flew from all over the world to Tarasova's holiday!

At the beginning of the holiday, a congratulatory telegram was read from the President of Russia Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.

Tarasova's student, the 2002 Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin, acted as the host of the anniversary show. For Alexei, this is not the first experience of hosting major events, for several seasons he has been a permanent host of the popular show on Channel One "Ice Age", in addition, in Yagudin's creative baggage - roles in cinema, theater and many other achievements! It is no coincidence that Tatyana Anatolyevna always says about Alexei: “Lyosha, everything can!” And it is true!

Of course, one of the favorite students of Tatyana Anatolyevna, presented his performances to the birthday girl and the public that evening. Yagudin presented a new number for Philip Kirkorov's song "About Love" and performed the legendary program "Winter", with which he won the Olympic Games 15 years ago! "Winter" is a reference program in the entire history of men's single skating, in which the most complex technical elements are surprisingly synchronized with deep dramaturgy and excellent artistry.

For the public that evening, both athletes, who are the pride of the country, and young athletes, Russia's main hopes at international competitions, performed.

The whole color of figure skating gathered in these two days at Luzhniki: Alexei Yagudin, Adelina Sotnikova, Ilya Kulik, Ekaterina Gordeeva, Natalya Bestemyanova - Andrey Bukin, Tatiana Navka - Roman Kostomarov, Tatiana Totmyanina - Maxim Marinin, Oksana Domnina - Maxim Shabalin, Maria Petrova - Alexei Tikhonov, Margarita Drobyazko - Povilas Vanagas, Albena Denkova - Maxim Stavisky, Elena Leonova - Andrey Khvalko, Yuko Kawaguchi - Alexander Smirnov, ice acrobats Alexey Polishchuk - Vladimir Besedin and many others.

We found time in a busy training schedule and our main hopes for Olympic gold in 2018 performed at the festival: Evgenia Medvedeva, Elena Radionova, Maxima Kovtun, Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Solovyov, Ivan Bukin - Alexandra Stepanova, Nikita Katsalapov - Victoria Sinitsyna.

All skaters presented new numbers to the accompaniment of live music and vocalists: Lev Leshchenko, Philip Kirkorov, Khibla Gerzmava, Zara, Ekaterina Guseva, Kristina Orbakaite, Denis Matsuev, Ekaterina Skanavi, Sergei Lazarev, Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Vladimir Presnyakov, Diana Gurtskaya, Natalia Podolskaya, the Moscow Virtuosi State Chamber Orchestra conducted by maestro Vladimir Spivakov and others.

By the way, many of the artists are connected with Tarasova and the world of figure skating by personal friendship, and some of them have behind them the already mentioned above television project “Ice Age”, which has been one of the most rated and loved by viewers of the First Channel show for more than 10 years.

Ilya Kulik flew in specially from America to congratulate his coach, the first "single skater" from Tarasova's team, who won the 1998 Nagano Olympics, thanks to which Tatyana Anatolyevna proved to the whole world that she was able to lead not only greenhouses to Triumph, but also representatives of single figure skating. Together with her husband (Ilya Kulik) flew from the USA Ekaterina Gordeeva, two-time Olympic Champion. The second gold of the Olympics, paired with Sergei Grinkov, Gordeeva won in 1994 under the leadership of Tatyana Anatolyevna!

Ilya Kulik performed to the music of Rachmaninov to the accompaniment of Denis Matsuev, Ekaterina Gordeeva to the philosophical romance performed by Vladimir Presnyakov “There is no me there”, Adelina Sotnikova skated to the incendiary hit of Kristina Orbakaite “Gloves”, Margarita Drobyazko and Povilas Vanagas embodied a mini-performance on ice to the opera vocals of Khibla Gezrmava, Tatyana Totmyan Ina and Maxim Marinin chose the poignant song "Let's Pray for Parents" as musical accompaniment. The 1988 Olympic champions - Natalya Bestemyanova and Andrey Bukin presented the unshakable "Carmen", Andrey's son and partner Alexandra Stepanova took part in the show - participants in the 2017 European Championship. Here it is the continuity of generations!

We will not list All the numbers of this inspired show - it is impossible to convey emotions, it must be seen!

The air of the show "Tatyana Tarasova 7.0" will be shown in the near future on Channel One!

Came to congratulate Tarasova and colleagues in the difficult work of the coach - Tamara Moskvina, Alexander Zhulin, Pyotr Chernyshov, Alexei Mishin.

During the evening, Tatyana Anatolyevna repeatedly recalled facts from her biography, the legendary father - Anatoly Tarasov, the great hockey coach who has gone down in world history forever, spoke about her wife, pianist Vladimir Krainev. Tarasova lived soul to soul with Krainev for many years, his untimely death was a huge blow to Tatyana Anatolyevna.

Her whole life is by no means like an easy serene holiday.

On the contrary, this is an everyday battle - with circumstances, obstacles, and sometimes with yourself!

Tarasova's path to the heights was thorny and difficult, she had to overcome the harsh trials of fate, the intrigues of competitors and officials, but she never betrayed herself and her firm principles, did not deviate from the moral guidelines laid down in childhood by a strict but fair father!

I remembered the lines from the legendary song of Vladimir Vysotsky:

“And the heart is ready to run from the chest to the top.
The whole world in the palm of your hand - you are happy and dumb
And just a little jealous of those
Others - for whom the peak is yet to come ... "

Tatyana Anatolyevna never rested on her laurels, she always looked ahead, taking into account the accumulated experience and, despite all the obstacles, together with her students conquered more and more Peaks!

Even now, at the age of 70, she leads an active, rich life - she advises athletes, is the permanent chairman of the Ice Age jury, comments on sports and manages many other things. And of course, she does not forget to keep up with the dynamic times - as Yagudin said during the concert, Tarasova is an advanced user of modern gadgets, keeps in touch with many friends on Facebook. Tatyana Anatolyevna manages to follow theatrical and musical news, regularly attends the premieres of new productions. For example, Tarasova said many compliments to Ekaterina Guseva, who spoke at the evening, regarding the new role of the actress - in the musical Anna Karenina, and the legendary coach admitted that she respects rap music!

In a word, this is the person who is constantly on the move, never stops learning, working, discovering new horizons!

For Tarasova's catchphrases, you can already publish a separate booklet, calling it "Phraseologists of the Great Coach!" For example, Tatyana Anatolyevna (we noticed this from the first seasons of the Ice Age) periodically, when she is in special admiration, uses the epithets “Masterpiece!” and "Cantileno!"

With these terms, I would like to summarize the overall impression of the holiday - it was “Masterpiece!”, Musically, deep, large-scale, bright, amazing!

Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov skated a number to a song based on poems by Veronika Tushnova "One Hundred Hours of Happiness". This name can be safely applied to the emotions of the anniversary show of Tatyana Tarasova!

The performance lasted almost 4 hours, everything that happened was really absolute Happiness for those present!

We thank Ilya Averbukh and his entire team for a kaleidoscope of emotions! Happy Anniversary, Great Tatyana Anatolyevna Tarasova!!!

The legend of Russian figure skating Tatyana Tarasova celebrated her 70th birthday. And not in any restaurant (although it could not have done without it) or at the premiere of an ice show, accompanied by dozens of congratulatory speeches. The renowned coach brought together the secular and business elite of Moscow in its very heart - at the GUM skating rink, which was opened on Red Square 11 years ago precisely with her light hand.

Vladislav Tretyak, Vladimir Pozner, Tatyana and Valentin Yumashev, Mikhail Kusnirovich, Vyacheslav Zaitsev, pupils of Tatyana Anatolyevna and many other guests came to congratulate the woman who raised a good half of the Olympic champions in our country.

An hour before the gathering of guests, the hero of the occasion gave a grandiose press conference. The reason was the premiere of Tarasova's holiday show called "7.0 Anniversary with Friends", which will be held at Luzhniki on February 17 and 18. However, official statements from the very first minutes gave way to friendly speeches and warm memories. The coach even remembered a sad story about how she received an unfortunate injury, due to which she was forced to end her sports career forever.

I then “knocked out” my arm, broke my shoulder and left the race forever. After that, from the age of 19 she began to train, - said the birthday girl.

A series of sports memories of Tatyana Tarasova and kind words addressed to her by Ilya Averbukh and Alexei Yagudin was interrupted by Vyacheslav Zaitsev. The designer rarely appears in public lately, but he could not help congratulating his close friend on her 70th birthday.

Slavochka, my handsome! My genius! After all, in my youth I endured all his dresses and coats, all fur coats! I still have all of his collections, but I can’t wear them anymore - the size is not the same, - Tarasova joked.

By the end of the press conference, dozens of guests had already gathered at the fountain in GUM. With piles of gifts and flowers, the invitees tried in vain to break through to the hero of the day, surrounded by a ring of reporters and those who wanted to be photographed as a keepsake for fans.

When the crowd subsided, the guests left GUM to the skating rink, where an open-air winter cafe was organized. The birthday girl treated the audience with pickles, pies and sandwiches. And so that the audience would not freeze, waiters constantly cruised around the perimeter, carrying glasses of mulled wine and homemade liquor. To the delight of the lightly dressed ladies, the heavy snowfall had ended by that time, and rare snowflakes gave the events a special fairy-tale atmosphere.

On the occasion of the anniversary of Tatiana Tarasova, an ice sculpture with an abbreviation of the initial letters of the name - TAT was installed in the courtyard of GUM. Friends of the birthday girl staged more than one impromptu photo shoot against her background.

Physical education hello! I see that you are already cold, so we will not perform for a long time! - Tatyana Tarasova reassured the guests who were blushing in the cold.

The program was really short. It was opened by Maria Petrova and Alexei Tikhonov, who passed the baton to Tatyana Totmianina and Maxim Marinin. Olympic champion Tatyana Navka, who went on the ice in a pair with Roman Kostomarov, danced her program in a light dress with an open back. The athlete looked spectacular, as always, but it was cold to look at her.

Here she is, my Tanya: winter, frost, and she has an open back! The real champion! Strong-willed, with character, smart. For this I love her, - Tarasova praised her student.

By the time the Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin stepped on the ice (gesturing that he was very cold), there were noticeably fewer guests - many moved inside the shopping center. Returning from the skating rink, Tatyana Tarasova led her friends to continue the celebration - the tables on the third floor were already waiting for them.

Colleagues and friends of the famous coach came to congratulate Tatyana Anatolyevna on her 70th birthday.

A grand celebration in honor of the 70th anniversary was held in GUM. Several dozen star guests came to congratulate the greatest Soviet and Russian coach on his birthday.

After talking with journalists, Tarasova invited everyone to the GUM Skating Rink, where demonstration performances of famous Russian figure skaters took place.

The host of the evening, Ilya Averbukh, promised that this is only a small part of the grandiose anniversary show that awaits everyone on February 17 and 18 at Luzhniki: skaters from all over the world will come for the sake of their beloved coach.

GUM turned into a huge flower meadow - a separate table was allocated for bouquets, but the place on it quickly ran out. In honor of the anniversary, the birthday girl put on all her awards, as she herself admitted, for the first time in her life. “I have one special medal,” said Tatyana Anatolyevna, “I won it at the Winter Universiade and fell at the awards ceremony, hit a rubber track, knocked out my arm, broke my shoulder and left the race forever.

And from the age of nineteen I began to teach. And all the other awards - two orders of the Red Banner of Labor, the Order of the Badge of Honor, Friendship of Peoples, For Services to the Fatherland - I received for the victories of my pupils at the Olympic Games.

Vladimir Pozner Vladislav Tretyak

Answering a question about unusual birthday gifts, the coach of the champions recalled the ice festival, which Ilya Averbukh organized for her sixtieth birthday.

“It seemed that all the people in the stands, the whole stadium were my friends.” When it came to gifts, Averbukh took out a toy skating rink from the bins, which actually turned out to be a box with a book inside. This is an incredible book "About Tanya ...", which contains memories and congratulations from close friends of the great Tarasova.

Of course, such an anniversary cannot be imagined without figure skating: despite the snow and cold weather, the famous Russian Olympic champions Tatyana Totmyanina and Maxim Marinin, Maria Petrova and Alexei Tikhonov, Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov, as well as Alexei Yagudin performed at the GUM skating rink.

Ilya Averbukh prepared this surprise for six months!

“It's been 10 years since our first show and we've been together all those years,” he said. - And Tatyana Anatolyevna inspired us for new productions. This year we are again doing a big gala program dedicated to the anniversary, and there were so many people who wanted to perform that we had to do three shows at once.

Several generations of athletes will be presented at once, this is the past, present and future of national figure skating, the parade of champions.”

Alexei Yagudin and Tatyana Totmyanina gave the birthday girl a fur coat right on the ice!

“You have always, all these years, warmed us with your warmth and were for us a real wall that can hide from all adversity. We really want this gift to warm you and give you our warmth and love, ”said Tarasova’s beloved student.

Mikhail Kusnirovich and Tatyana Tarasova

One of the first to congratulate Tarasova came Vyacheslav Zaitsev: “I got along very close with Tanya in 78, I sewed costumes for performances,” he said. “She is a completely work-obsessed person.”

Festive gala shows will take place on February 17 and 18 at the Luzhniki Sports Palace with the participation of Natalia Bestemyanova and Andrey Bukin, Ilya Kulik and Ekaterina Gordeeva, Tatiana Navka and Roman Kostomarov and other eminent athletes, as well as our modern team represented by Evgenia Medvedeva, Adelina Sotnikova and Maxim Kovtun. Vladimir Spivakov and Denis Matsuev will play for the hero of the day, Philip Kirkorov, Alla Pugacheva, Vladimir Presnyakov, Kristina Orbokaite will sing their hits.

On February 17 and 18, 2017, a gala concert on ice “Tatyana Tarasova. Anniversary with friends. 7:0”, which is dedicated to the anniversary of the famous coach. The director of the gala concert Ilya Averbukh is the world and European champion. Tarasova's student, the 2002 Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin, will act as the host of the ice show.

Her name is forever inscribed in the history of world sports. "Velikaya Tarasova" - she created and continues to create real professionals, champions of world renown. The daughter of the famous hockey coach Anatoly Tarasov, the "father of Russian hockey", an outstanding mentor Tatyana Tarasova, has trained and educated a record number of Olympic champions in her professional career.

Among her "golden" students are Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev (couples - 1976 and 1980), Natalia Bestemyanova and Andrey Bukin (dancing - 1988), Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko (dancing - 1992), Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergey Grinkov (couples - 1994), Ilya Kulik (men - 1998), Oksana Gri pike and Evgeny Platov (dance - 1998), Alexei Yagudin (men - 2002), as well as more than 40 winners of the world's largest competitions. Tatyana Tarasova is called a person who lives by her profession. Her students are the real pride of figure skating, they climbed to the highest pedestals. Since 2006, Tatyana Tarasova has been the chairman of the jury for the Stars on Ice and Ice Age programs on Channel One.

The main guests of the holiday and the participants of the show on February 17-18, 2017 will be the stars of world figure skating. Ilya Averbukh, director of the show: “Only around such a large-scale personality as Tatyana Tarasova, such a number of stars can gather - from Natalia Bestemyanova and Andrey Bukin, Olympic champions in 1988 in Sarajevo, to Adelina Sotnikova, Sochi Olympic champion in 2014. The show presents the golden age of our figure skating: Ekaterina Gordeeva, Ilya Kulik, Alexei Yagudin, Tatyana Navka, Roman Kostomarov, Tatyana Totmyanina, Maxim Marinin, Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, Maria Petrova and Alexei Tikhonov, Margarita Drobyazko, Povilas Vanagas, Albena Denkova, Maxim Stavisky, and also current champions - Evgenia Medvedeva - the main hope for Olympic gold in 2018, Maxim Kovtun, Elena Radionova, Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitry Solovyov, Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin. This great dream team will form the backbone of our three shows.”

Famous politicians and athletes, artists and cultural figures, theater, stage and film stars will also come to congratulate Tatyana Anatolyevna, many of whom will take part in the anniversary gala concert: Alla Pugacheva, Philip Kirkorov, Kristina Orbakaite, Khibla Gerzmava, Denis Matsuev, Ekaterina Skanavi, Sergey Lazarev, Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Lev Leshchenko, Vladimir Presnyakov, Diana Gurtskaya, Turetsky Choir, Zara, State Chamber Orchestra "Moscow Virtuosi" conducted by Vladimir Spivakov and many others.

Ilya Averbukh, director of the show: “The second component of our show is the guests. The fact is that Tatyana Anatolyevna is a very open and hospitable person, there are legends about her hospitality, and since her house cannot accommodate those wishing to congratulate her on her anniversary, we decided to move the celebration to the main ice palace of the country, where her main coaching career took place - the Lenin Ice Palace, now it is the Luzhniki Sports Palace. Famous people and just fans of Tatyana Anatolyevna come, as it were, to her home, where Lesha Yagudin, the host of the gala evening, meets and introduces everyone. Exclusive numbers performed by eminent skaters who will be shown only once, performances by pop stars, many nostalgic numbers and incredible guests.

It will be a real celebration of love, respect and reverence for a person, coach, master and woman who has made a great contribution not only to the development of figure skating, but also to the development of Soviet and Russian sports in general.

It will be an anniversary in the circle of Friends, in which you, our dear Spectator, can also take part!”

Dear viewers! Please note that the organizers reserve the right to make changes and additions to the composition of the Show participants.

Ilya Averbukh, stage director of the gala concert, is a world and European champion. Tarasova's student, the 2002 Olympic champion Alexei Yagudin, will act as the host of the ice show.

The main guests of the holiday and the participants of the show will be the stars of world figure skating. Ilya Averbukh, director of the show: “Only around such a large-scale personality as Tarasova, such a number of stars can gather - from Natalia Bestemyanova and Andrey Bukin, Olympic champions in 1988 in Sarajevo, to Adelina Sotnikova, Olympic champion in Sochi 2014. The show presents the golden age of our figure skating: Katya Gordeeva, Ilya Kulik, Alexei Yagudin, Tatyana Navka, Roman Kostomarov, Tatyana Totmyanina, Maxim Marinin, Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, Maria Petrova and Alexei Tikhonov, Margarita Drobyazko, Povilas Vanagas, Albena Denkova, Maxim Stavisky - to the current champions, Zhenya Medvedeva - the main hope for the Olympic gold 2018, Maxim Kovtun, Elena Radionova, Katya Bobrova and Dmitry Solovyov, Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin. This great dream team will form the backbone of our three shows.”

Famous politicians and athletes, figures of art and culture, theater, stage and film stars will also come to congratulate Tatyana Anatolyevna, many of whom will take part in the anniversary gala concert: Alla Pugacheva, Philip Kirkorov, Kristina Orbakaite, Khibla Gerzmava, Denis Matsuev, Ekaterina Skanava, Sergey Lazarev, Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Lev Leshchenko, Vladimir Presnyakov, Diana Gurtskaya, Turetsky Choir, Zara, Moscow Virtuosi State Chamber Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Spivakov and many others.

Ilya Averbukh, director of the show: “The second component of our show is the guests. The fact is that Tatyana Anatolyevna is a very open and hospitable person, there are legends about her hospitality, and since her house cannot accommodate those wishing to congratulate her on her anniversary, we decided to move the celebration to the main ice palace of the country, where her main coaching career took place - the Lenin Ice Palace, now it is the Luzhniki Sports Palace. Famous people and just fans of Tatyana Anatolyevna come, as it were, to her home, where Lesha Yagudin, the host of the gala evening, meets and introduces everyone. Exclusive numbers performed by famous skaters who will be shown only once, performances by pop stars, many nostalgic numbers and incredible guests. It will be a real celebration of love, respect and reverence for a person, coach, master and woman who has made a great contribution not only to the development of figure skating, but also to the development of Soviet and Russian sports in general. It will be an anniversary in the circle of Friends, in which you, our dear viewer, can also take part!”

Her name is forever inscribed in the history of world sports. "Velikaya Tarasova" - she created and continues to create real professionals, champions of world renown. The daughter of the famous hockey coach Anatoly Tarasov, the "father of Russian hockey", an outstanding mentor Tatyana Tarasova, has trained and educated a record number of Olympic champions in her professional career.

Among her "golden" students are Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev (couples - 1976 and 1980), Natalia Bestemyanova and Andrey Bukin (dancing - 1988), Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko (dancing - 1992), Ekaterina Gordeeva and Sergey Grinkov (couples - 1994), Ilya Kulik (men - 1998), Oksana Gri pike and Evgeny Platov (dance - 1998), Alexei Yagudin (men - 2002), as well as more than 40 winners of the world's largest competitions. Tatyana Tarasova is called a person who lives by her profession. Her students are the real pride of figure skating, they climbed to the highest pedestals. Since 2006, Tatyana Tarasova has been the chairman of the jury for the Stars on Ice and Ice Age programs on Channel One.

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