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Understanding 9/11tv Yurii Nikulin 1TV December 23, 2023 1:10pm-2:07pm MSK
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not just the close grandson of the famous artist, he is a representative of the third generation of nikulins in the circus. yura told us how he once entered the arena in the guise of his grandfather. we celebrated the sixtieth birthday of maxim yuryevich nikolin, artistic director and director of the moscow circus on tsvetnoy boulevard. i put on this suit, hat, suit and went out into the arena, well... yuri nikulin, yes, i can afford it, just as thin, just as long, just as lop-eared, thin, long, lop-eared, with a beaming smile from ear to ear eyes, nikulin appeared at an audition before film director leonid gaidai, this was in 1961. he says this
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, he says, come on, he says, turn your back, he turned like that , he said, that’s it, you don’t need to look for anyone else, he’s a dunce, i admit, i’m frankly very glad to lie under this electronic unit, a coward, a dunce and experienced, the legends about unlucky swindlers produced the effect of a bomb exploding, the audience lay laughing, they had never seen anything funnier before, to live, as they say, is good, to live well is even better, exactly! the prototype of the dunce was undoubtedly the clown yurik: running around, absurd situations and alcoholic suffering, it was the wonderful spectators who tore off young nikulin’s hand, why all this, thank god, is being restored, yura nikulin, traveling with us around the circus.
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probably for the first time i so sincerely and openly recalled my childhood with my famous grandfather, until the age of three or four, until my brother and i began to call things by their proper names, he was simply not interested in us, then yes, then when you begin to formulate thoughts, desires, then well, i can talk to you now, you you became a man, congratulations. oh, great, guys , how is life, of course, nikulin was in great demand and as it seemed then, the grandchildren got all the most interesting things from the public, and not from them, however, popular love, such that the children would go to their grandfather’s circus, then, like he’s doing, children, vladimirovich is being photographed today, i need you to be there too, bring him, put him in prison, you can see from my tightness.
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smiles, how glad i was, happy, and you are also going abroad, for the first time, no, i ’m not going anywhere, we’re seeing off dad, no one forced the son of nikulin’s grandchildren dedicate his life to the circus, when difficult times came for the circus in the nineties, maxim nikulin left television to help his father, his father came home from work with something black, completely lost, and i offered him, i say, let me come by...
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we moved to moscow, didn’t you really have any other choice, we went through all the options. the mystery of the parents' move remained unsolved, no versions, except that vladimir nikolin's grandfather could have had trouble with the local authorities, his character he was complex, unyielding, but yuri vladimirovich himself was softer and kinder. trainer yuri kuklachev told us about nikolin's amazing sense of justice, you will hear this story for the first time. in the late
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eighties, the circus and cash prizes were supposed to be donated to the bins of the homeland. a special person in uniform came and took the currency. threw into the abyss, the abyss, now it’s clear , broke, two bottles, three, write three, only
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later in different authorities nikulin not only proved that he was right, but also forced the officials cancel these extortions, he is ours... this is the people's, this is the people, this is the people's soul, this is a front-line soldier, a man who went through the war, an artilleryman. it was difficult for nikulin to be frightened by anything; as a simple soldier, an anti-aircraft gunner, he went through two wars, first the soviet-finnish war, later the great patriotic war, he defended leningrad, and for the rest of his life he remembered hunger, frost, and that mixture of horror and courage that he experienced when he attacked an anti-aircraft battery german tanks were coming.
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survived, which means everything should come true, he will hug his father and mother, propose to him vgik, he dreamed of becoming an artist, when his father called home from the belorussian station, i returned, i came, he was gone for 7 years, two wars, and his grandfather said, great, you know,
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i now have a ticket to football, spartak is playing with dynamo , and then we, my father says , then i’ll run home and arrive at the stadium for the second half, you did it well, that’s it , yuri nikulin , who returned from the front, had a lot of expectations, but not everything came true, the girl he loved, i couldn’t wait to marry a handsome pilot, it was the first a serious blow to pride, parting with the idea of starting a family with a loved one , the goal of becoming an actor appeared, yuri decided to enroll in vgik, well, in general, i learned ba...
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i came across an advertisement: clowns needed, and the clumsy, unathletic nikulin began to study somersaults, in forty studio, he studied, will there be karabatic classes there? in the clown room of the old moscow circus , you and i find ourselves directly in tsvetnoy boulevard, these wooden shutters , soviet lattice. metal, yes, it’s clear that there is a double-glazed window behind it. the clown room was included in the projects and was
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completely recreated by order of yuri nikulin when the new circus building was being built. where can you find one like this now? nick, where? in exactly the same room, nikolin himself, his partner mikhail shuidin and the famous pencil clown did their makeup. nikulin began as a decoy in pencil reprises. he introduced nikulin to tanya. tanya liked his smile and kind eyes. what are you doing? - she asked. “come to the show, you’ll find out,” he answered. the number was like this, he tried climb on a horse to show something." some kind of horse riding, well, they put a longue on him, it’s like a safety belt, at first
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he couldn’t get it going, they lifted him up, he jumped over it, in general, the audience was crying with laughter, in what -for a moment, tanya , sitting in the first row, saw how the free end of longi got under the horse’s hooves, she got confused, got scared, threw yura off, he lost consciousness, at this performance the horse hit him with its hoof. and it’s good that it wasn’t in the temple, he woke up already in the hospital, and tanya was nearby, since then they were together. nikulin recalled how he waited for her arrival every day, in a white robe and cap she appeared in the long corridor on the floor, and the neighbors in the ward joked, “your boss is coming. ” a house in nashchekinsky lane on the former furmanov street 4, here tatyana’s parents learned about their daughter’s chosen one. when my mother came, the first time i said that i had met the artist, everyone just gasped from
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the circus, can you imagine, he’s a clone, it was clear that bam went backwards, but then it turned out that the last time she saw plovna was in 912, somewhere in a booth on the market, he was drunk, the red-haired one shouted oooh all the time, but tanya had already decided everything for herself, and i said that yura, write me wishes for the new year and... the next date he gave me those for now, read it, the contents of this note in the family are still classified as secret, but everyone understands without words, it’s about love, amazing, january 13 , 1950, we got married in may, we got married in may, i won’t read it, in same. one day, for a reprise, they needed an assistant,
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a boy. tanya was short, fragile, nikulin offered her this role. with a new reprise they went on tour. and since then , tatyana nikulina began working as a clown with her husband. what did you do? what did you do? i ask you, what did you do? quiet, quiet, quiet, quiet, this is my unreal love. these are feelings that cannot be described, on the one hand there are two completely different people, but that is why, probably, they have always been together, like a minus plus in a magnet, so they connected once, that’s it, it is impossible to separate them. 1957, nikulin and shuedin is preparing reprises for a new circus program. passes by. film playwright vladimir polyakov, suddenly he
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stops like that, as if he’s seeing nikolina for the first time, so he looked him over and said: listen, don’t you want to act in a movie? right now, musfilm is launching a film about a girl with a guitar, there is a character there that is absolutely yours, right for you. nikulin, coming home, said to his wife: what an eccentric, he invited me, she reacted instantly, don’t even hesitate, go, they’ll definitely take you. no well tatania this is this is so in one second no you say, this is, let's say, strict, but fair. incredibly patient, incredibly intelligent, one hell of a loving person. yuv, as everyone close to nikulin called him, was sharp, almost invisible, and did not know how to present himself. semyon semyonovich, what are you, calm and
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gentle, trying to help everyone. please everyone, and tanya is tough, at the same time kind, with a cool head, she will calculate everything, think it over, change her mind 10 times. in 1961, in addition to the legendary short films of gaidai, another film with nikulin in the title role was released, directed by lev kulejanov, when the trees
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he was not taught how to express this or that emotion, every episode from the life of his hero kuzma iordanov, nikulin lived at the expense of the resources of his own soul, clown skills only got in the way, he told me, call it fright. play exhausted, he says, let’s try to make it so that there’s just nothing here, just look, in the eyes, let it be exhausted, it can be done, after this difficult work, nikulin again played a dunce and other swindlers for several years, and his mother was very worried, you're such a good son, why you
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how do you deal with housing? yes , my situation is great, i have three rooms in a communal apartment, the four of us live there beautifully, then i looked around, a strange idiot, and the most beloved soviet film actor got his first and last separate apartment, we’re going there! on the way , maxim nikulin remembers how once, as a child, he was in intensive care, a kidney infarction, then there was an unsuccessful operation, the son literally died in front of his mother, tatyana got a job at the clinic a nanny, to be close, and nikola was on tour in leningrad, performances in moscow , there in the department, well, mom was called to the phone, and
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he just asked how he was alive, and mom answered, bye... and he again went to make people laugh people, how did nikolin stand it, didn’t give up everything, didn’t come to his child, the one who today is extremely rare to meet pathetically, in the circus it’s impossible otherwise, it’s impossible to let down your partners in the act, no matter how strong your personal pain is, you have to smile, they don’t serve in the circus, they live here. came at 7:00 am, they they work, you leave after the performance, you leave, they also work, everyone’s children are born, the stroller is there, they’re already walking on the wire there, you know? nikulin was a circus performer, he understood all this when he was little with his dad, he is also a circus performer, he went to his office, well, it was incomprehensible to me then, dad was very worried, roma,
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let’s go to nikulin, i still small , now i understand, of course, one day we came to the buffet, there was a line there, i was still working as an artist, well, we’re standing in line, they’re coming, well, it’s natural to let him all pass pass, he says: guys, guys, i have time , you have time to work, let's get in line, i was very impressed, 10 years ago, before filming, we rehearsed these reprises, with the orchestra, in the manege, in the rehearsal hall, but it seemed , we do everything the same as them,
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there was no such success, it’s scary that being a clown is not so easy. despite the fact that popov was a people 's artist of the soviet union with world fame, it does not matter, but he envied nikulin, and until the end of his days he could not calm down that
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nikulin became the director of the circus, that not he, but nikulin took his amazing fame calmly, lived among people, like among good neighbors in a communal apartment, everyone knows him, greets everyone, calls acquaintances and strangers easily... for nikulin , any person could be an interlocutor, but at the same time it could be a parrot, and pelican, anyone , hello, boy, hello, boy, he is the one, you might not know who he is talking to, the pelican or the deputy minister of culture, the son of the writer konstantin simonov. scriptwriter for the film 20 days without war good remembers how director alexei german suggested simonov as an actor for the role of front-line correspondent lopatin,
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who was to play in a duet with lyudmila gurchenko. we were thinking of one artist for the main role, which means in twenty days, well , we don’t know, we have to try, he says, who is he - says semnov, and nikulin, what...
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i have a circus in the evening, in the afternoon i play this lopatin , and it’s as heavy as a circus, i have to wear a cap, these same pants, hold it, you’ll help me, help me, yes, he made everyone laugh, he didn’t play in the bed scene, and yes, there were many wonderful actors in the country, by the way, they tried for this role... bronislav brondukov and anatoly solonitsin, something came out in nikulin, the country saw a different nikulin, restrained, confident, and
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attractive in a masculine way. with a clear facial contour and a masculine chin. nikulino was a war soldier, he didn’t have to invent anything, that’s what he was. but what words are the right ones and what are the wrong ones? i want to understand, i see you don’t like the prose. then , it’s not easy for me to reach you, but to death, four steps. these are the words. in my opinion, a rare acting gift, to be credible in any role, from comedy to drama, he had such an organic quality that he could turn into any person, a loved one, a neighbor, and the children’s favorite clown, and a military man who returned from
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the war, that is, this is unique... so is it an actor or a clown? we need to put an end to this dispute, because each of those with whom we talked about nikulin has his own opinion. he is a great clown, you can approach him in close- up, just his eyes, lead and hold him correctly yourself in the frame. probably, yuri vladimirovich nikulin is the perfect personification of the old russian name for this profession in general. definitely a buffoon, that's all, in a buffoon there is a clown, and a jester, and an actor, a poet, our guest is the godmother of figure skating of the entire commentary department, tatyana anatolyevna tarasova, and there will be a voice now our girls will tear everyone up like a tuzik rag, make something from which we will come to the east, an amazing program, i want it to win, i
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generally believe that emotions are... the main thing component of sports reporting, and if we are absolutely impartial, we will be, well, like robots, i will never forget how tatyana anatolyevna stood up in front of the whole hall, wagging her finger, and said, i’m sitting behind myself, i’m not jumping up, podcast lab, today on the first, bourbon steersman. product of steller group. but nikole could have played yuri detochkin in ildar ryazanov’s film beware of the car. the script of the film rezanov's name is yuri. rezanov was sure that it was not kulin who should be cast in this role, which prevented the circus from touring. another of the films where yoi nikulin could have played the main role was georgy daneli’s film 33. sergei bondarchuk invited him to
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two of his films. after all, he was supposed to play captain tusha in war and peace, not much, not little, but this is not the most interesting thing, the most interesting thing is that it was yuri vladimirovich nikulin who was considered for the bunshi, the script was written for him, and nikulin, in general, gave his consent, he passed the photo test, but then somehow he refused outright, the reason is always the same, a tour game, he goes out to wear this funny hat.
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oh, how well he plays, how naturally, it turns out that he was a bass voice, and everything was filmed in the middle shot, his nails are not visible, hot diesel fuel was dripping from this torch. right on his feet. on his day, nikulin decided so long ago, he was convinced that it was indecent to laugh at old people, although what an old age at 60, a new role awaited him, the director of the circus. patriarch's ponds, also one of those undoubted places where i spent some time in those years, here, thank god, nothing has changed, everything around, of course, is completely different
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life, other. at the patriarch's house, 27 years old, ordinary, brick, non-mansion, they asked maxim, why there isn't even a memorial plaque on the house that yuri nikulin is here. lived not yet, we are opening now sasha rukovichnikov has already done it, now for the centenary we were allowed, before that they were not allowed, there was so much wording, in 1983 nikulin played his last serious role in rolan bekov’s film stuffed animals, the most complex filming in terms of psychological intensity. i began to cool down on you, i even hid in the gateway when i saw you. listen, grandpa, maybe have you noticed how i hide from you? no, no, i didn't notice. he played the grandfather of the main character of the film, lena bessoltseva. lena was kristina arbakaite; being a grandfather was not easy.
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it’s good that nikolin was her partner. he treated me with such warmth, with such kindness, truly like a native person. and without thinking at all, my grandfather told him. into place, well, that is, he could defuse any difficult situation. in the fall of 1985 , the dilapidated circus building was demolished, i went to the authorities, looking for money for construction. many of those who were nearby
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have given up over the years. only nikulin believed that his old, new circus would be revived forever in the same place, only renewed. and this unique chronicle was filmed later.
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already on a stretcher on the way to the operating room, nikulin wanted to cheer up the doctors and told them this anecdote that it is impossible to reproduce from the screen kulin in a coma for 16 days , the country is on... on the house where yuri nikolin lived, there is now a memorial plaque, a bright and cheerful memory about him, embodied in stone, everything went in nikulin’s style, songs in his performance sounds like you, music , nothing memorial except the plaque, and even that, he loved to give joy, and if a unit of measurement of joy was needed, then we would measure it in non-kulins, now the performance is over, i’m there
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program, i’m maxim tronkov, our guest , good afternoon, hello, tamara nikolaevna, we’re very glad to see you, thank you for finding time in your busy schedule and coming to our studio, i watched some programs and thought it was actually interesting for lovers, and i would also be in my place if i participated in this program, my dream finally came true.
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career in single skating, igor borirovich moskvin invited him to skate with me in pairs. igor borisovich moskvin taught me how not to contradict igor borisovich moskvin and not to contradict alexei nikolaevich mishin, because i knew everything. no, no, you know, i ’ll show you this approach. such and such an element, i deliberately did this approach, and since it was not very interesting or uncomfortable, i fell, then silently stepped aside and did what the men suggested to me, then lesha and igor borievich moskvit, and alexey said: “listen, tamar, let the coach, let’s listen, let him, well, what if it’s inconvenient, but the coach himself is our coach.” those who train olympic champions, he himself will say, guys,
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well, it was unsuccessful, so, to be honest, alexey and i skated very quickly in a businesslike manner, because we worked, because i had just married igor borisevich, alexey just got married, we we had to train faster and run home, where our beloved husbands and wives were waiting for us, but... then i have a question, what was it like to marry your coach, that is, it’s a constant job at the skating rink, and then also at home, that is, how did you separate it all? there was nothing so complicated here, but first of all, igor boris looked after me , probably we were just doing household chores at home, then let ’s talk about your legendary rivalry with lyudmila beluusova and oleg, we didn’t have there is never any confrontation, because
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even weight-height ratios. such a perfect performance by a sports couple who also competed at the ussr, european and world championships, and we trained with the same coach igor mariyevich moskvin, so it was
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almost impossible to surpass mila and oleg, but we already knew then, as they know now, that there are two sides to our sport. this is technical and artistic, then, so to speak, our creative union of alexei, igor and moi, decided to think about how we can still have to win them, but by that time mila and oleg, they could no longer perform complex elements, well, in particular throws or difficult jumps, alexey and i, because... it was quite difficult, because i was a single skater, the first in soviet union, who did a double lutz at the competition, that’s the first thing in everything , yes, that means alex and i, well, we decided that we would go for a more complicated program, we had
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a more complex one, this jumping, jumping combination, then since that that i was a student... at the institute of physical education sports named after lezgovt, and we went through gymnastics, acrobatics, everything, that is, we also had acrobatic elements, so we managed to win the russian and ussr championship competition against milye and oleg, only due to the fact that we had a more complex technical component , an example of this, that is, you cannot give up, you cannot raise your hands. you should always, even if you see that your competitor is much stronger than you to some extent, or has great talent, has musicality or more complex elements, if you are in sports, you must do everything just think about how you can
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win against this competitor of yours, look for, this is a train. athletes, and now russian ones, of course , use more artistic techniques, artistic design of programs, this includes musical accompaniment, this includes choreographic design, these are costumes, people talk about the excessive theatricality
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of the programs of russian figure skaters, but they criticize only because they themselves can't do it. well, this is how our joint work went together in the same group with mila and oleg, we trained on the same ice, an area that contributed to them, their prolongation of their life in sports, our, so to speak, growth, and you and alexei nikolaevich, when you skated together, you were friends, you... you went to the cinemas, then we lived in st. petersburg quite close to each other, and oleg and
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mila, we went to visit them, well, of course, these were guests, of course, discussing programs, discussing skating, which ones, what we watched in the theater, went to ballet performances, favorite word. soviet union, i remember her witch, and what an episode, beware of the car , oh, brilliant, when she looks at this grundik, 50, well, pull yourself together, she was leaving somewhere and said, i laid out the money for denis so that he wouldn’t spend it all at once, write it down, there are hundreds of vases, he said where i can get the next hundred, i’m worried about some.
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honored trainer of russia, the legendary tamara nikolaevna moskvyana. in your time , our dancing was ahead of the rest. pairs too, but singles skating was somehow second echelon. why was this? yes, they were lit some bright stars, but in terms of results on the international stage, it was not so medal-intensive. and it's very simple. at that time, during soviet times, it was not in our country. a lot, or rather there were several, very few, one or two rinks with artificial ice, and for single skating
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more ice was needed, because then there were these mandatory exercises, and for complex ice, it was 3 months or 4 months a year , while the ice was natural, it was impossible to teach these... exercises, difficult jumps, and pair skating and ice dancing were quite possible, because for pairs, pairs and dances you could practice a lot in the hall, invent elements, learn elements, lifts, figures, dances, you could practice ballroom dancing in the hall and invent or...
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single sculler, single sculler, my last question is about the past and let’s move on to your coaching activities, and this is my personal one, i asked myself this a very long time ago, because once i had from biellmann from switzerland, and tamara bratus from the soviet union, well, that’s also already well-known story, but my question is not about whether it’s true or not, i have a question about what it was called at the time when it was... invented by moskvina, zaklon, it was called just zaklon, what is it, well, now , in my opinion, there is, there is a bow, there is
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a bow, but it was simply called a leg bend, and since then it was not necessary for the judges to write the contents of the program in advance, but what the judge saw during the performance during the competition, but he also assessed the judge, which is why we call it a tilt. leg, where did this leg come from? i was a student institute of physical education, we didn’t just have to come to the teacher with a record book to get a grade, we had to go to all the classes, and this was just great for me for pair skating, because gymnastic exercises, acrobatic exercises, we did it all, i i saw acrobats training in one of the halls; they were girls. but what’s interesting
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is that back in 1960, at the first european championships, where tamara bratus went as part of the team, i took there, well, 20 first, second, third, fourth here is the place, but in the german newspaper, i have a clipping where tamara baratus, it is written, and a photograph of this this this rotation, but who remembers who pays attention to the figure skater taking twentieth place, no one, but the coach of this one, she too she was very flexible, because her mother was a gymnast, he said, i remember one
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