# 2015 Russian Figure Skating Championships

The 2015 Russian Figure Skating Championships (Russian: Чемпионат России по фигурному катанию на коньках 2015) was held from 24 to 28 December 2014 in Sochi. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The results were among the criteria used to select Russia's teams sent to the 2015 World Championships and 2015 European Championships.

## Competitions

| Date | Event | Type | Location | Details |
| 9–13 September 2014 | 1st stage of Russian Cup | Qualifier | Samara, Samara Oblast | Details |
| 6–10 October 2014 | 2nd stage of Russian Cup | Qualifier | Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El | Details |
| 27–31 October 2014 | 3rd stage of Russian Cup | Qualifier | Sochi, Krasnodar Krai | Details |
| 18–22 November 2014 | 4th stage of Russian Cup | Qualifier | Kazan, Tatarstan | Details |
| 2–6 December 2014 | 5th stage of Russian Cup | Qualifier | Moscow | Details |
| 24–28 December 2014 | 2015 Russian Championships | Final | Sochi, Krasnodar Krai | Details |
| 4–7 February 2015 | 2015 Russian Junior Championships | Final | Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El | Details |
| 24–28 February 2015 | 2015 Russian Cup Final | Final | Saransk, Mordovia | Details |
| 19–23 March 2015 | 2015 Russian Youth Championships – Younger Age | Final | Veliky Novgorod, Novgorod Oblast | Details |
| 28–31 March 2015 | 2015 Russian Youth Championships – Elder Age | Final | Stary Oskol, Belgorod Oblast | Details |

## Medalists of most important competitions

Senior Championships :
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Maxim Kovtun | Sergei Voronov | Adian Pitkeev |
| Ladies | Elena Radionova | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Evgenia Medvedeva |
| Pairs | Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov |
| Ice dancing | Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin | Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin |
| Junior Championships ||||
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Alexander Petrov | Alexander Samarin | Dmitri Aliev |
| Ladies | Evgenia Medvedeva | Maria Sotskova | Serafima Sakhanovich |
| Pairs | Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev | Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin | Anastasia A. Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov |
| Ice dancing | Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov | Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko | Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin |
| Cup Final ||||
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Gordei Gorshkov | Anton Shulepov | Andrei Lazukin |
| Ladies | Alexandra Proklova | Elizaveta Iushenko | Alena Leonova |
| Pairs | Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov | Vasilisa Davankova / Alexander Enbert | Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat |
| Ice dancing | Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin | Liudmila Sosnitskaia / Pavel Golovishnikov | Margarita Belyakova / Dmitry Volkov |
| Junior men | Vladislav Tarasenko | Evgeni Ilyn | Ilia Skirda |
| Junior ladies | Polina Tsurskaya | Anastasiia Gubanova | Alisa Fedichkina |
| Junior pairs | Daria Beklemisheva / Maxim Bobrov | Alina Solovieva / Viktor Kudriavtsev | Anastasia Poluianova / Stepan Korotkov |
| Junior ice dancing | Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd | Ksenia Konkina / Georgy Reviya | Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov |
| Youth Championships – Elder Age ||||
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Evgeni Semenenko | Ilia Skirda | Georgy Kunitsa |
| Ladies | Polina Tsurskaya | Alisa Fedichkina | Alina Solovyeva |
| Pairs | Apollinaria Panfilova / Maksim Selkin | Elena Ivanova / Tahir Khakimov | Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot |
| Ice dancing | Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin | Daria Shirokhova / Nikita Nazarov | Yulia Dolgikh / Dmitry Mikhailov |
| Youth Championships – Younger Age ||||
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Petr Gumennik | Evgeni Semenenko | Ilia Skirda |
| Ladies | Anastasiia Gubanova | Alina Solovyeva | Ekaterina Mitrofanova |
| Pairs | No pairs' discipline | No pairs' discipline | No pairs' discipline |
| Ice dancing | No Ice dancing discipline | No Ice dancing discipline | No Ice dancing discipline |

## Senior Championships

The senior Championships was held in Sochi for the third year in a row. Competitors qualified through international success or by competing in the Russian Cup series' senior-level events. 2014 national champions Adelina Sotnikova and Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev were absent from the entry list, which featured 18 men, 18 ladies, 11 pairs, and 10 dance teams.

### Schedule

* Thursday, December 25
** 14:00–16:30 Men's short
** 16:45–17:30 Opening ceremony
** 17:45–19:45 Pairs' short
** 20:00–21:30 Short dance
* Friday, December 26
** 14:00–16:30 Ladies' short
** 16:45–19:45 Men's free
** 20:00–21:45 Free dance
* Saturday, December 27
** 15:00–17:15 Pairs' free
** 17:30–20:20 Ladies' free
* Sunday, December 28
** 13:00–13:45 Medal ceremonies
** 14:00–16:30 Exhibitions

### Results
#### Men

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Maxim Kovtun | 271.52 | 1 | 98.14 | 2 | 173.38 |
| 2 | Sergei Voronov | 270.53 | 3 | 91.24 | 1 | 179.29 |
| 3 | Adian Pitkeev | 240.96 | 4 | 87.36 | 3 | 153.60 |
| 4 | Konstantin Menshov | 237.27 | 2 | 92.37 | 5 | 144.90 |
| 5 | Gordei Gorshkov | 228.56 | 7 | 75.29 | 4 | 153.27 |
| 6 | Artur Gachinski | 222.07 | 5 | 80.69 | 7 | 141.38 |
| 7 | Anton Shulepov | 208.34 | 11 | 66.48 | 6 | 141.86 |
| 8 | Moris Kvitelashvili | 207.40 | 8 | 74.37 | 9 | 133.03 |
| 9 | Alexander Petrov | 205.87 | 6 | 76.87 | 10 | 129.00 |
| 10 | Dmitri Aliev | 204.46 | 12 | 64.36 | 8 | 140.10 |
| 11 | Alexander Samarin | 187.87 | 9 | 72.05 | 14 | 115.82 |
| 12 | Artem Lezheev | 186.25 | 13 | 63.01 | 11 | 123.24 |
| 13 | Andrei Lazukin | 181.66 | 10 | 70.92 | 17 | 110.74 |
| 14 | Daniil Bernadiner | 177.40 | 16 | 59.21 | 12 | 118.19 |
| 15 | Roman Galkin | 175.42 | 14 | 61.47 | 15 | 113.95 |
| 16 | Vladislav Kainov | 175.25 | 17 | 57.54 | 13 | 117.71 |
| 17 | Evgeni Vlasov | 163.37 | 18 | 50.70 | 16 | 112.67 |
| WD | Artur Dmitriev Jr. | withdrew | 15 | 60.82 | withdrew from competition | withdrew from competition |

#### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Elena Radionova | 217.45 | 1 | 74.13 | 1 | 143.32 |
| 2 | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | 212.35 | 2 | 73.62 | 2 | 138.73 |
| 3 | Evgenia Medvedeva | 209.81 | 3 | 72.57 | 3 | 137.24 |
| 4 | Anna Pogorilaya | 204.51 | 4 | 71.17 | 4 | 133.34 |
| 5 | Serafima Sakhanovich | 191.84 | 11 | 59.21 | 5 | 132.63 |
| 6 | Maria Sotskova | 186.06 | 8 | 61.66 | 6 | 124.40 |
| 7 | Alena Leonova | 184.33 | 5 | 67.99 | 7 | 116.34 |
| 8 | Maria Artemieva | 175.33 | 9 | 60.59 | 8 | 114.74 |
| 9 | Yulia Lipnitskaya | 169.70 | 6 | 66.90 | 11 | 102.80 |
| 10 | Natalia Ogoreltseva | 160.92 | 7 | 62.98 | 14 | 97.94 |
| 11 | Maria Stavitskaia | 160.85 | 12 | 58.09 | 12 | 102.76 |
| 12 | Alexandra Proklova | 160.08 | 15 | 51.85 | 9 | 108.23 |
| 13 | Diana Pervushkina | 152.67 | 16 | 50.17 | 13 | 102.50 |
| 14 | Ekaterina Bayanova | 151.25 | 14 | 53.70 | 15 | 97.55 |
| 15 | Alsu Kaiumova | 148.76 | 18 | 44.86 | 10 | 103.90 |
| 16 | Elizaveta Iushenko | 145.04 | 10 | 60.11 | 17 | 84.93 |
| 17 | Maria Gorokhova | 142.31 | 17 | 45.51 | 16 | 96.80 |
| 18 | Polina Korobeynikova | 141.39 | 13 | 57.68 | 18 | 83.71 |

#### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov | 212.10 | 1 | 75.72 | 2 | 136.38 |
| 2 | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | 208.23 | 3 | 70.29 | 1 | 137.94 |
| 3 | Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov | 207.68 | 2 | 71.81 | 3 | 135.87 |
| 4 | Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov | 174.52 | 6 | 57.63 | 4 | 116.89 |
| 5 | Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat | 172.73 | 4 | 60.98 | 6 | 111.75 |
| 6 | Vasilisa Davankova / Alexander Enbert | 171.60 | 7 | 54.84 | 5 | 116.76 |
| 7 | Natalja Zabijako / Yuri Larionov | 166.03 | 5 | 59.96 | 7 | 106.07 |
| 8 | Arina Cherniavskaia / Antonio Souza-Kordeyru | 155.10 | 8 | 52.22 | 8 | 102.88 |
| 9 | Anastasia A. Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov | 149.39 | 9 | 51.13 | 10 | 98.26 |
| 10 | Tatiana Kuznetsova / Semen Stepanov | 142.96 | 10 | 43.89 | 9 | 99.07 |

#### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin | 171.41 | 1 | 70.35 | 2 | 101.06 |
| 2 | Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin | 167.19 | 3 | 65.72 | 1 | 101.47 |
| 3 | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | 166.19 | 2 | 66.37 | 3 | 99.82 |
| 4 | Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov | 158.57 | 4 | 60.79 | 4 | 97.78 |
| 5 | Tiffany Zahorski / Jonathan Guerreiro | 145.13 | 5 | 59.62 | 5 | 85.51 |
| 6 | Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin | 132.84 | 6 | 52.76 | 6 | 80.08 |
| 7 | Liudmila Sosnitskaia / Pavel Golovishnikov | 112.19 | 7 | 43.58 | 7 | 68.61 |
| 8 | Margarita Belyakova / Dmitry Volkov | 95.77 | 8 | 37.12 | 9 | 58.65 |
| 9 | Anastasia Safronova / Ilia Zimin | 92.13 | 9 | 32.61 | 8 | 59.52 |
| 10 | Anzhelika Kanivets / Alexei Chizhov | 83.49 | 10 | 29.95 | 10 | 53.54 |

## Junior Championships

The 2015 Russian Junior Championships (Russian: Первенство России) were held in Yoshkar-Ola from 4 to 7 February 2015. Competitors qualified by competing in the Russian Cup series' junior-level events. There were 18 qualifiers in the men's event, 18 ladies, 12 pairs, and 15 ice dancing teams. The results of the February competition was part of the selection criteria for the 2015 World Junior Championships.

### Results
#### Men

| Rank | Name | Region | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Alexander Petrov | SPB | 218.07 | 1 | 77.89 | 2 | 140.18 |
| 2 | Alexander Samarin | MOS | 209.37 | 2 | 76.04 | 3 | 133.33 |
| 3 | Dmitri Aliev | C/K | 206.15 | 11 | 59.83 | 1 | 146.32 |
| 4 | Vladimir Samoilov | MOS | 197.91 | 5 | 66.03 | 4 | 131.88 |
| 5 | Petr Gumennik | SPB | 196.29 | 6 | 65.65 | 5 | 130.64 |
| 6 | Andrei Lazukin | SPB | 192.25 | 3 | 69.74 | 7 | 122.51 |
| 7 | Ilia Skirda | MOS | 189.23 | 10 | 61.57 | 6 | 127.66 |
| 8 | Daniil Bernadiner | MOS | 179.54 | 8 | 62.25 | 10 | 117.29 |
| 9 | Murad Kurbanov | MOS | 179.15 | 9 | 61.87 | 11 | 117.28 |
| 10 | Nikolai Gerasimov | MOS | 179.09 | 12 | 59.67 | 8 | 119.42 |
| 11 | Vladislav Tarasenko | MOS | 176.38 | 7 | 64.36 | 14 | 112.02 |
| 12 | Igor Efimchuk | SPB | 175.51 | 4 | 67.65 | 15 | 107.86 |
| 13 | Georgy Kunitsa | MOS | 174.52 | 13 | 58.62 | 12 | 115.90 |
| 14 | Matvei Vetlugin | MOS | 174.43 | 16 | 55.73 | 9 | 118.70 |
| 15 | Evgeni Ilyn | Kazan | 168.54 | 15 | 56.21 | 13 | 112.33 |
| 16 | Evgeni Semenenko | SPB | 163.25 | 14 | 57.88 | 18 | 105.37 |
| 17 | Kirill Sokolov | MOS | 160.97 | 17 | 54.27 | 16 | 106.70 |
| 18 | Dmitry Shutkov | SPB | 155.56 | 18 | 49.26 | 17 | 106.30 |

#### Ladies

| Rank | Name | Region | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Evgenia Medvedeva | MOS | 205.05 | 1 | 70.95 | 1 | 134.10 |
| 2 | Maria Sotskova | MOS | 186.30 | 2 | 65.93 | 3 | 120.37 |
| 3 | Serafima Sakhanovich | M / S | 185.96 | 4 | 62.60 | 2 | 123.36 |
| 4 | Polina Tsurskaya | MOS | 182.83 | 3 | 64.07 | 4 | 118.76 |
| 5 | Elizaveta Nugumanova | SPB | 178.45 | 5 | 62.23 | 6 | 116.22 |
| 6 | Anastasiia Gubanova | SPB | 178.44 | 7 | 60.77 | 5 | 117.67 |
| 7 | Elizaveta Iushenko | MOS | 175.33 | 6 | 61.26 | 7 | 114.07 |
| 8 | Alisa Fedichkina | SPB | 161.27 | 15 | 52.18 | 8 | 109.09 |
| 9 | Valeria Mikhailova | MOS | 154.78 | 13 | 53.22 | 9 | 101.56 |
| 10 | Diana Pervushkina | TOL | 152.27 | 11 | 53.71 | 10 | 98.56 |
| 11 | Ekaterina Mitrofanova | MOS | 151.91 | 9 | 55.20 | 11 | 96.71 |
| 12 | Anna Tarusina | MOS | 147.74 | 14 | 52.71 | 12 | 95.03 |
| 13 | Anastasia Mukhortova | MOS | 145.83 | 12 | 53.69 | 14 | 92.14 |
| 14 | Alsu Kaiumova | MOS | 144.43 | 10 | 55.08 | 15 | 89.35 |
| 15 | Maria Perederova | SPB | 139.89 | 16 | 52.00 | 16 | 87.89 |
| 16 | Sofia Samodurova | SPB | 136.06 | 17 | 43.54 | 13 | 92.52 |
| 17 | Stanislava Konstantinova | SPB | 132.68 | 8 | 58.40 | 17 | 74.28 |
| WD | Alexandra Proklova | MOS | | | | | |

#### Pairs

| Rank | Name | Region | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev | Perm | 171.57 | 2 | 60.29 | 1 | 111.28 |
| 2 | Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin | MOS | 164.80 | 1 | 61.48 | 2 | 103.32 |
| 3 | Anastasia A. Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov | Perm | 152.04 | 3 | 54.23 | 3 | 97.81 |
| 4 | Alina Solovieva / Viktor Kudriavtsev | MOS | 147.32 | 5 | 52.02 | 4 | 95.30 |
| 5 | Daria Beklemisheva / Maxim Bobrov | MOS | 146.12 | 4 | 53.18 | 5 | 92.94 |
| 6 | Anastasia Poluianova / Stepan Korotkov | Perm | 138.33 | 8 | 48.30 | 6 | 90.03 |
| 7 | Maria Chuzhanova / Denis Mintsev | MOS | 134.22 | 7 | 49.89 | 8 | 84.33 |
| 8 | Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot | Perm | 133.69 | 6 | 50.98 | 11 | 82.71 |
| 9 | Elena Ivanova / Tahir Khakimov | Perm | 130.70 | 11 | 44.63 | 7 | 86.07 |
| 10 | Daria Foka / Evgeniy Kostarev | MOS | 130.40 | 9 | 47.23 | 10 | 83.17 |
| 11 | Kamilla Gainetdinova / Sergei Alexeev | MOS | 130.37 | 10 | 47.00 | 9 | 83.37 |
| 12 | Vlada Mishina / Vadim Ivanov | M/K | 112.28 | 12 | 42.88 | 12 | 69.40 |

#### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | Region | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov | MOS | 163.59 | 1 | 65.24 | 1 | 98.35 |
| 2 | Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko | MOS | 147.99 | 3 | 58.06 | 2 | 89.93 |
| 3 | Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin | Togliatti | 140.56 | 5 | 54.53 | 3 | 86.03 |
| 4 | Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd | MOS | 140.37 | 2 | 61.84 | 5 | 78.53 |
| 5 | Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov | M/H | 139.86 | 4 | 55.47 | 4 | 84.39 |
| 6 | Eva Khachaturian / Andrei Bagin | MOS | 123.79 | 6 | 53.14 | 10 | 70.65 |
| 7 | Sofia Shevchenko / Igor Eremenko | MOS | 120.32 | 7 | 49.39 | 9 | 70.93 |
| 8 | Daria Shirokhova / Nikita Nazarov | MOB | 120.06 | 8 | 47.05 | 8 | 73.01 |
| 9 | Anastasia Skoptsova / Kirill Aleshin | MOS | 120.01 | 9 | 46.79 | 7 | 73.22 |
| 10 | Sofia Polishchuk / Alexander Vakhnov | MOS | 116.45 | 12 | 40.61 | 6 | 75.84 |
| 11 | Yulia Dolgikh / Dmitry Mikhailov | MOS | 111.20 | 10 | 44.17 | 11 | 67.03 |
| 12 | Daria Rumiantseva / Dmitri Riabchenko | MOS | 108.62 | 11 | 41.73 | 12 | 66.89 |
| 13 | Karolina Klikich / Daniil Ragimov | Togliatti | 100.26 | 13 | 38.96 | 13 | 61.30 |
| 14 | Polina Ivanenko / Daniil Karpov | Orenburg | 94.11 | 14 | 37.38 | 14 | 56.73 |
| WD | Ksenia Konkina / Georgy Reviya | MOB | | | | | |

## International team selections
### Winter Universiade

The team for the 2015 Winter Universiade was announced as follows:
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Artur Gachinski | Maria Artemieva | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov |
| 2 | Gordei Gorshkov | Alena Leonova | Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat | Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin |
| 3 | Moris Kvitelashvili | | Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov | |
| 1st alt. | | Adelina Sotnikova | | |

### European Championships

The team for the 2015 European Championships was announced on 28 December 2014:
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Maxim Kovtun | Anna Pogorilaya | Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov | Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin |
| 2 | Adian Pitkeev | Elena Radionova | Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov | Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin |
| 3 | Sergei Voronov | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin |
| 1st alt. | Konstantin Menshov | Adelina Sotnikova | Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov | Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov |
| 2nd alt. | Gordei Gorshkov | Alena Leonova | Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev |
| 3rd alt. | Artur Gachinski | Maria Artemieva | Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov | |

### World Junior Championships

The team for the 2015 World Junior Championships was announced on 12 February 2015 in no particular order:
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| | Alexander Petrov | Evgenia Medvedeva | Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev | Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin |
| | Adian Pitkeev | Serafima Sakhanovich | Anastasia A. Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov | Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko |
| | Alexander Samarin | Maria Sotskova | Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin | Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov |
| Alt. | Dmitri Aliev | Elizaveta Iushenko | Daria Beklemisheva / Maxim Bobrov (added) | Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd |
| Alt. | Vladimir Samoilov | Alexandra Proklova | | Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov |
| Alt. | Andrei Lazukin | Diana Pervushkina | | Eva Khachaturian / Andrei Bagin |

### World Championships

The team for the 2015 World Championships was announced as follows:
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Maxim Kovtun | Anna Pogorilaya | Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov | Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin |
| 2 | Sergei Voronov | Elena Radionova | Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov | Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin |
| 3 | | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin |
| 1st alt. | Konstantin Menshov | Alena Leonova | Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat | |
| 2nd alt. | Adian Pitkeev | | | |