# Prize of Moscow News

The Prize of Moscow News (Russian: Приз газеты «Московские новости»), also known as the Moscow Skate, Nouvelles de Moscou, and the Moscow News Trophy, was an international, senior-level figure skating competition held in the Soviet Union from 1966 to 1990 (excluding 1989, in 1990 was an international competition for the Prizes of the Gosteleradio USSR in Odessa, which became the legal successor of Prize of Moscow News competition). It was held annually in Moscow in December and effectively was the predecessor to the Cup of Russia ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating event. The winners received a "Crystal Skate" statuette.

## Medalists
### Men

Men's medalists :
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Refs |
| 1966 | Ondrej Nepela | Günter Zöller | Vladimir Kurenbin | |
| 1967 | Marian Filc | Sergei Volkov | Alexander Vedenin | |
| 1968 | Sergei Chetverukhin | Sergei Volkov | Vladimir Kurenbin | |
| 1969 | Sergei Volkov | Vladimir Kovalev | Yuri Ovchinnikov | |
| 1970 | Sergei Chetverukhin | Sergei Volkov | Vladimir Kovalev | |
| 1971 | Sergei Chetverukhin | Vladimir Kovalev | Sergei Volkov | |
| 1972 | Sergei Chetverukhin | Sergei Volgushev | Bernd Wunderlich | |
| 1973 | Vladimir Kovalev | Ron Shaver | Igor Bobrin | |
| 1974 | Vladimir Kovalev | Sergei Volkov | Minoru Sano | |
| 1975 | Vladimir Kovalev | Sergei Volkov | Konstantin Kokora | |
| 1976 | Vladimir Kovalev | Yuri Ovchinnikov | Sergei Volkov | |
| 1977 | Yuri Ovchinnikov | Sergei Volkov | Igor Bobrin | |
| 1978 | Konstantin Kokora | Igor Bobrin | Mario Liebers | |
| 1979 | Igor Bobrin | Vladimir Kotin | Vladimir Raschetnov | |
| 1980 | Igor Bobrin | Konstantin Kokora | Vladimir Kotin | |
| 1981 | Vladimir Kotin | Igor Bobrin | Vitali Egorov | |
| 1982 | Alexander Fadeev | Vladimir Kotin | Jozef Sabovčík | |
| 1983 | Vladimir Kotin | Gary Beacom | Alexander Fadeev | |
| 1984 | Alexander Fadeev | Vladimir Kotin | Viktor Petrenko | |
| 1985 | Alexander Fadeev | Vladimir Kotin | Vitali Egorov | |
| 1986 | Vladimir Kotin | Vitali Egorov | Vladimir Petrenko | |
| 1987 | Alexander Fadeev | Daniel Doran | Vladimir Petrenko | |
| 1988 | Vladimir Petrenko | Yuriy Tsymbalyuk | Alexander Fadeev | |
| 1989 | not held | not held | not held | not held |
| 1990 | Alexei Urmanov | Mikhail Shmerkin | Oleg Tataurov | |

### Ladies

Ladies' medalists :
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Refs |
| 1966 | Martina Clausner | Zsuzsa Szentmiklossy | Sybille Stolfig | |
| 1967 | Zsuzsa Almássy | Elena Shcheglova | Galina Grzhibovskaya | |
| 1968 | Elena Shcheglova | Galina Grzhibovskaya | Sonja Morgenstern | |
| 1969 | Elena Shcheglova | Elena Alexandrova | Simone Gräfe | |
| 1970 | Marina Titova | Simone Gräfe | Gundi Niesen | |
| 1971 | Marina Titova | Elena Kotova | Steffi Knoll | |
| 1972 | Cathy-Lee Irwin | Isabel de Navarre | Tatiana Oleneva | |
| 1973 | Gerti Schanderl | Liudmila Bakonina | Marion Weber | |
| 1974 | Lynn Nightingale | Liudmila Bakonina | Petra Wagner | |
| 1975 | Elena Vodorezova | Wendy Burge | Karin Enke | |
| 1976 | Elena Vodorezova | Liudmila Bakonina | Zhanna Ilina | |
| 1977 | Natalia Strelkova | Zhanna Ilina | Marina Ignatova | |
| 1978 | Carola Weißenberg | Kira Ivanova | Marina Ignatova | |
| 1979 | Kira Ivanova | Natalia Strelkova | Renata Baierová | |
| 1980 | Svetlana Frantsuzova | Janina Wirth | Anna Kondrashova | |
| 1981 | Kay Thomson | Kira Ivanova | Kerstin Wolf | |
| 1982 | Kira Ivanova | Anna Kondrashova | Anna Antonova | |
| 1983 | Kira Ivanova | Anna Kondrashova | Natalia Lebedeva | |
| 1984 | Kira Ivanova | Natalia Lebedeva | Anna Kondrashova | |
| 1985 | Caryn Kadavy | Anna Kondrashova | Natalia Lebedeva | |
| 1986 | Kira Ivanova | Jill Trenary | Anna Kondrashova | |
| 1987 | Cindy Bortz | Natalia Gorbenko | Natalia Skrabnevskaya | |
| 1988 | Tonya Harding | Natalia Lebedeva | Natalia Gorbenko | |
| 1989 | not held | not held | not held | not held |
| 1990 | Olga Markova | Staci Rutkowski | Liudmila Ivanova | |

### Pairs

Pairs medalists :
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Refs |
| 1966 | Tamara Moskvina / Alexei Mishin | Tatiana Sharanova / Anatoli Evdokimov | Liudmila Smirnova / Andrei Suraikin | |
| 1967 | Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov | Lyudmila Suslina / Alexander Tikhomirov | Galina Karelina / Georgi Proskurin | |
| 1968 | Tamara Moskvina / Alexei Mishin | Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov | Galina Karelina / Georgi Proskurin | |
| 1969 | Irina Rodnina / Alexei Ulanov | Liudmila Smirnova / Andrei Suraikin | Tatiana Sharanova / Anatoli Evdokimov | |
| 1970 | Liudmila Smirnova / Andrei Suraikin | Galina Karelina / Georgi Proskurin | Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov | |
| 1971 | Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov | Liudmila Smirnova / Andrei Suraikin | Galina Karelina / Georgi Proskurin | |
| 1972 | Irina Vorobieva / Alexander Vlasov | Ludmila Belousova / Oleg Protopopov | Marina Leonidova / Vladimir Bogolyubov | |
| 1973 | Liudmila Smirnova / Alexei Ulanov | Natalia Dongauzer / Vasili Blagov | Marina Leonidova / Vladimir Bogolyubov | |
| 1974 | Nadezhda Gorshkova / Evgeni Shevalovski | Kerstin Stolfig / Veit Kempe | Katia Schubert / Knut Schubert | |
| 1975 | Nadezhda Gorshkova / Evgeni Shevalovski | Irina Vorobieva / Alexander Vlasov | Marina Leonidova / Vladimir Bogolyubov | |
| 1976 | Marina Cherkasova / Sergei Shakhrai | Nadezhda Gorshkova / Evgeni Shevalovski | Manuela Mager / Uwe Bewersdorf | |
| 1977 | Marina Cherkasova / Sergei Shakhrai | Nadezhda Gorshkova / Evgeni Shevalovski | Marina Pestova / Stanislav Leonovich | |
| 1978 | Marina Pestova / Stanislav Leonovich | Nelli Chervotkina / Viktor Teslia | Irina Vorobieva / Igor Lisovski | |
| 1979 | Irina Vorobieva / Igor Lisovski | Veronika Pershina / Marat Akbarov | Zhanna Ilina / Alexander Vlasov | |
| 1980 | Irina Vorobieva / Igor Lisovski | Nelli Chervotkina / Viktor Teslia | Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev | |
| 1981 | Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov | Veronika Pershina / Marat Akbarov | Lorri Baier / Lloyd Eisler | |
| 1982 | Veronika Pershina / Marat Akbarov | Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov | Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev | |
| 1983 | Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov | Veronika Pershina / Marat Akbarov | Elena Bechke / Valeri Kornienko | |
| 1984 | Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov | Veronika Pershina / Marat Akbarov | Elena Bechke / Valeri Kornienko | |
| 1985 | Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov | Veronika Pershina / Marat Akbarov | Elena Bechke / Valeri Kornienko | |
| 1986 | Elena Kvitchenko / Rashid Kadyrkaev | Elena Bechke / Valeri Kornienko | Lyudmila Koblova / Andrei Kalitin | |
| 1987 | Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov | Elena Valova / Oleg Vasiliev | Larisa Selezneva / Oleg Makarov | |
| 1988 | Natalia Mishkutenok / Artur Dmitriev | Elena Bechke / Denis Petrov | Marina Eltsova / Sergei Zaitsev | |
| 1989 | not held | not held | not held | not held |
| 1990 | Evgenia Shishkova / Vadim Naumov | Elena Leonova / Sergei Petrovskii | Yulia Borisova & Valery Artiukhov | |

### Ice dancing

Ice dancing medalists :
| Year | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Refs |
| 1966 | Irina Grishkova / Viktor Ryzhkin | Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger | Dana Novotná / Jaroslav Hainz | |
| 1967 | Irina Grishkova / Viktor Ryzhkin | Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov | Dana Novotná / Jaromír Holan | |
| 1968 | Annerose Baier / Eberhard Rüger | Tatiana Voitiuk / Viacheslav Zhigalin | Elena Zharkova / Gennadi Karponosov | |
| 1969 | Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov | Elena Zharkova / Gennadi Karponosov | Tatiana Voitiuk / Viacheslav Zhigalin | |
| 1970 | Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov | Tatiana Voitiuk / Viacheslav Zhigalin | Elena Zharkova / Gennadi Karponosov | |
| 1971 | Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov | Tatiana Voitiuk / Viacheslav Zhigalin | Elena Zharkova / Gennadi Karponosov | |
| 1972 | Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov | Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov | Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov | |
| 1973 | Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov | Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov | Svetlana Alexeeva / Alexander Boichuk | |
| 1974 | Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov | Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov | Teresa Weyna / Piotr Bojanczyk | |
| 1975 | Liudmila Pakhomova / Alexander Gorshkov | Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov | Lilia Karavaeva / Viacheslav Zhigalin | |
| 1976 | Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov | Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov | Marina Zueva / Andrei Vitman | |
| 1977 | Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov | Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov | Marina Zueva / Andrei Vitman | |
| 1978 | Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov | Elena Garanina / Igor Zavozin | Marina Zueva / Andrei Vitman | |
| 1979 | Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | Natalia Karamysheva / Rostislav Sinitsyn | |
| 1980 | Natalia Linichuk / Gennadi Karponosov | Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | |
| 1981 | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | Irina Moiseeva / Andrei Minenkov | Olga Volozhinskaya / Alexander Svinin | |
| 1982 | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | Olga Volozhinskaya / Alexander Svinin | Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko | |
| 1983 | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko | Olga Volozhinskaya / Alexander Svinin | |
| 1984 | Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | Olga Volozhinskaya / Alexander Svinin | |
| 1985 | Natalia Bestemianova / Andrei Bukin | Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko | Natalia Annenko / Genrikh Sretenski | |
| 1986 | Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko | Natalia Annenko / Genrikh Sretenski | Maya Usova / Alexander Zhulin | |
| 1987 | Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko | Maya Usova / Alexander Zhulin | Natalia Annenko / Genrikh Sretenski | |
| 1988 | Marina Klimova / Sergei Ponomarenko | Larisa Fedorinova / Evgeni Platov | Ilona Melnichenko / Gennadi Kaskov | |
| 1989 | not held | not held | not held | not held |
| 1990 | Ilona Melnichenko / Gennadi Kaskov | Irina Anciferova & Oleg Granenov | Natalia Linets & Aleksei Kislitsin | |