About the book: 2014 / The popularity of figure skating in our country has been and remains phenomenally huge. Fantastic fame came to our skaters in the early 60s of the last century, when the stars of two outstanding representatives of Soviet pair skating rose on world skating rinks: Oleg Protopopov and Lyudmila Belousova. And then began the triumphal march across the planet of our star couples: Irina Rodnina and Alexander Zaitsev, Lyudmila Pakhomova and Alexander Gorshkov, Irina Moiseeva and Andrei Minenkov. When these couples took to the ice, millions of people around the world were glued to their televisions in anticipation of a unique spectacle. Their expectations were always met as soon as the first bars of the melodies began to sound. The performances of our skaters to the playful “Kalinka” or the graceful “Kumparsita” made the audience roar with delight and the judges give the highest marks. How this happened, who forged the glory of domestic figure skating in the “golden” 60s - 80s of the twentieth century is described in this book.