# 2011 Russian Figure Skating Championships

The 2011 Russian Figure Skating Championships (Russian: Чемпионат России по фигурному катанию на коньках 2011) was held on 26–29 December 2010 in Saransk. The junior competition was held on 2–4 February 2011 in Kazan. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
The results could be used to help determine the teams for the 2011 World Championships and the 2011 European Championships.

## Competitions

| Date | Event | Type | Location |
| 25–29 December 2010 | 2011 Russian Championships | Final | Saransk, Mordovia |
| 1–4 February 2011 | 2011 Russian Junior Championships | Final | Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan |
| 23–26 February 2011 | 2011 Russian Cup Final | Final | Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El |
| 15–19 March 2011 | 2011 Russian Youth Championships – Younger Age | Final | Tver, Tver Oblast |
| 29 March – 1 April 2011 | 2011 Russian Youth Championships – Elder Age | Final | Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast |

## Medalists of most important competitions

Senior Championships :
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Konstantin Menshov | Artur Gachinski | Zhan Bush |
| Ladies | Adelina Sotnikova | Alena Leonova | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva |
| Pairs | Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov | Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov | Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov |
| Ice dancing | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev | Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko | Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov |
| Junior Championships ||||
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Artur Dmitriev Jr. | Zhan Bush | Gordei Gorshkov |
| Ladies | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Polina Shelepen | Rosa Sheveleva |
| Pairs | Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov | Alexandra Vasilieva / Yuri Shevchuk | Kristina Astakhova / Nikita Bochkov |
| Ice dancing | Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin | Ekaterina Pushkash / Jonathan Guerreiro | Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin |
| Cup Final ||||
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Konstantin Menshov | Sergei Voronov | Mark Shakhmatov |
| Ladies | Rosa Sheveleva | Ksenia Makarova | Yulia Lipnitskaya |
| Pairs | Katarina Gerboldt / Alexander Enbert | Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov | Evgenia Tarasova / Egor Chudin |
| Ice dancing | Anastasia Kabanova / Nikolai Babin | Evgenia Surkova / Denis Kozlov | |
| Junior men | Feodosiy Efremenkov | Alexei Genya | Artemiy Punin |
| Junior ladies | Alsu Kayumova | Evgenia Medvedeva | Polina Korobeinikova |
| Junior pairs | Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurdiukov | Elizaveta Semenova / Maxim Petukhov | Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev |
| Junior ice dancing | Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin | Anna Yanovskaya / Egor Koshcheev | Tatiana Baturintseva / Sergei Mozgov |
| Youth Championships – Elder Age ||||
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Feodosiy Efremenkov | Ilya Petrov | Murad Kurbanov |
| Ladies | Evgenia Gerasimova | Polina Korobeinikova | Ekaterina Frolova |
| Pairs | Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin | Maria Vygalova / Egor Zakroev | Ekaterina Sergeantova / Yaroslav Maslov |
| Ice dancing | Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin | Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin | Anna Yanovskaya / Egor Koshcheev |
| Youth Championships – Younger Age ||||
| Discipline | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men | Alexander Samarin | Andrei Zuber | Adyan Pitkeev |
| Ladies | Elena Radionova | Evgenia Medvedeva | Anna Shershak |
| 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
### Schedule

(All times GMT+3)
* Sunday 26 December 2010
** 14:00–14:30 Opening ceremony
** 14:45–16:15 Ice dancing – Short dance
** 16:30–18:30 Pairs – Short programs
** 18:45–21:15 Men – Short skating
* Monday, December 27
** 14:00–16:30 Ladies – Short programs
** 16:45–19:05 Pairs – Free skating
** 19:20–22:20 Men – Free skating
* Tuesday, December 28
** 14:00–16:50 Ladies – Free skating
** 17:05–19:05 Ice dancing – Free dance
* Wednesday, December 29
** 16:00–16:30 Award ceremonies
** 16:45–19:15 Exhibition skates

### Results
#### Men

| Rank | Name | City or region | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Konstantin Menshov | Saint Petersburg | 225.17 | 1 | 78.42 | 1 | 146.75 |
| 2 | Artur Gachinski | Saint Petersburg | 211.28 | 9 | 64.75 | 2 | 146.53 |
| 3 | Zhan Bush | Chelyabinsk | 204.98 | 5 | 69.05 | 4 | 135.93 |
| 4 | Sergei Voronov | Moscow | 204.71 | 13 | 60.14 | 3 | 144.57 |
| 5 | Ivan Tretiakov | Moscow | 204.54 | 3 | 72.05 | 6 | 132.49 |
| 6 | Gordei Gorshkov | Saint Petersburg | 203.50 | 4 | 69.98 | 5 | 133.52 |
| 7 | Artur Dmitriev Jr. | Saint Petersburg | 202.72 | 2 | 77.65 | 9 | 125.07 |
| 8 | Denis Leushin | Moscow | 196.17 | 8 | 66.51 | 8 | 129.66 |
| 9 | Ivan Bariev | Moscow | 193.61 | 12 | 62.67 | 7 | 130.94 |
| 10 | Vladislav Sezganov | Saint Petersburg | 190.37 | 7 | 66.85 | 10 | 123.52 |
| 11 | Maxim Kovtun | Ekaterinburg | 188.50 | 6 | 67.63 | 12 | 120.87 |
| 12 | Mark Shakhmatov | Moscow | 185.02 | 11 | 63.84 | 11 | 121.18 |
| 13 | Stanislav Samokhin | Moscow | 184.36 | 10 | 64.58 | 13 | 119.78 |
| 14 | Alexandr Nikolaev | Moscow | 164.58 | 14 | 58.74 | 14 | 105.84 |
| 15 | Konstantin Milyukov | Kazan | 154.53 | 15 | 57.46 | 16 | 97.07 |
| 16 | Feodosiy Efremenkov | Moscow | 149.93 | 17 | 44.23 | 15 | 105.70 |
| 17 | Nikita Mikhailov | Moscow | 141.50 | 16 | 53.07 | 17 | 88.43 |

#### Ladies

| Rank | Name | City or region | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Adelina Sotnikova | Moscow | 197.44 | 2 | 63.79 | 1 | 133.65 |
| 2 | Alena Leonova | Saint Petersburg | 187.68 | 3 | 60.14 | 2 | 127.54 |
| 3 | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Saint Petersburg | 180.71 | 7 | 56.30 | 3 | 124.41 |
| 4 | Yulia Lipnitskaya | Moscow | 176.27 | 5 | 59.13 | 4 | 117.14 |
| 5 | Ksenia Makarova | Saint Petersburg | 173.91 | 1 | 64.16 | 6 | 109.75 |
| 6 | Sofia Biryukova | Moscow | 159.14 | 4 | 59.49 | 8 | 99.65 |
| 7 | Polina Shelepen | Moscow | 159.03 | 9 | 53.89 | 7 | 105.14 |
| 8 | Rosa Sheveleva | Moscow Oblast | 156.81 | 13 | 46.33 | 5 | 110.48 |
| 9 | Polina Agafonova | Saint Petersburg | 154.48 | 6 | 58.42 | 10 | 96.06 |
| 10 | Polina Korobeinikova | Moscow | 152.15 | 10 | 53.62 | 9 | 98.53 |
| 11 | Alexandra Deeva | Moscow | 144.07 | 11 | 51.23 | 11 | 92.84 |
| 12 | Maria Artemieva | Saint Petersburg | 139.35 | 8 | 54.63 | 13 | 84.72 |
| 13 | Anna Novichkina | Moscow | 126.90 | 14 | 45.84 | 14 | 81.06 |
| 14 | Sofia Mishina | Moscow | 124.22 | 16 | 39.13 | 12 | 85.09 |
| 15 | Anna Afonkina | Moscow | 122.24 | 12 | 46.89 | 15 | 75.35 |
| 16 | Evgenia Pochufarova | Moscow Oblast | 109.85 | 15 | 39.66 | 16 | 70.19 |

#### Pairs

| Rank | Name | City or region | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov | Moscow | 214.66 | 1 | 72.71 | 1 | 141.95 |
| 2 | Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov | Saint Petersburg | 201.44 | 2 | 68.15 | 2 | 133.29 |
| 3 | Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov | Perm | 195.77 | 3 | 67.83 | 3 | 127.94 |
| 4 | Katarina Gerboldt / Alexander Enbert | Saint Petersburg | 182.77 | 4 | 61.99 | 5 | 120.78 |
| 5 | Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze | Moscow | 179.49 | 6 | 58.68 | 4 | 120.81 |
| 6 | Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov | Saint Petersburg | 168.08 | 5 | 61.03 | 6 | 107.05 |
| 7 | Maria Mukhortova / Jérôme Blanchard | Saint Petersburg | 148.63 | 7 | 53.78 | 8 | 94.85 |
| 8 | Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurdiukov | Moscow | 145.74 | 8 | 51.34 | 9 | 94.40 |
| 9 | Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov | Moscow | 143.49 | 9 | 47.38 | 7 | 96.11 |
| 10 | Sabina Imaikina / Konstantin Bezmaternikh | Saint Petersburg | 139.20 | 10 | 47.33 | 10 | 91.87 |
| 11 | Ksenia Ozerova / Denis Golubev | Saint Petersburg | 98.75 | 11 | 39.22 | 11 | 59.53 |

#### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | City or region | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev | Moscow | 164.93 | 1 | 65.34 | 1 | 99.59 |
| 2 | Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko | Moscow Oblast | 160.45 | 3 | 62.17 | 2 | 98.28 |
| 3 | Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov | Moscow | 149.72 | 2 | 62.30 | 4 | 87.42 |
| 4 | Jana Khokhlova / Fedor Andreev | Moscow | 145.74 | 5 | 53.74 | 3 | 92.00 |
| 5 | Kristina Gorshkova / Vitali Butikov | Moscow | 142.83 | 4 | 57.30 | 5 | 85.53 |
| 6 | Angelina Telegina / Valentin Molotov | Mordovia | 123.83 | 6 | 47.06 | 6 | 76.77 |
| 7 | Valeria Starygina / Ivan Volobuyev | Moscow | 113.57 | 7 | 43.32 | 7 | 70.25 |
| 8 | Anastasia Kabanova / Nikolai Babin | Moscow Oblast | 99.52 | 8 | 35.60 | 8 | 63.92 |
| 9 | Evgenia Shakhtarina / Denis Kozlov | Kirov | 77.83 | 9 | 28.95 | 9 | 48.88 |

## Junior Championships

The 2011 Russian Junior Figure Skating Championships were held in Kazan on 2–4 February 2011.

### Schedule

(All times GMT+3)
* February 2
** 14:00 Men – Short program
** 17:30 Pairs – Short program
** 19:45 Ice dancing – Short dance
* February 3
** 12:00 Ladies – Short program

### Results
#### Men

| Rank | Name | City or region | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Artur Dmitriev Jr. | Saint Petersburg | 206.85 | 1 | 72.30 | 2 | 134.55 |
| 2 | Zhan Bush | Chelyabinsk | 206.14 | 3 | 70.25 | 1 | 135.89 |
| 3 | Gordei Gorshkov | Saint Petersburg | 205.26 | 2 | 71.14 | 3 | 134.12 |
| 4 | Mark Shakhmatov | Moscow | 192.41 | 5 | 62.95 | 4 | 129.46 |
| 5 | Maxim Kovtun | Ekaterinburg | 182.57 | 4 | 63.32 | 6 | 119.25 |
| 6 | Konstantin Milyukov | Kazan | 175.94 | 6 | 59.45 | 7 | 116.49 |
| 7 | Mikhail Kolyada | Saint Petersburg | 172.35 | 18 | 50.22 | 5 | 122.13 |
| 8 | Ilya Petrov | Moscow | 164.35 | 9 | 55.40 | 9 | 108.95 |
| 9 | Vladislav Tarasenko | Saint Petersburg | 163.93 | 7 | 56.05 | 10 | 107.88 |
| 10 | Alexei Genya | Moscow | 160.86 | 10 | 54.33 | 12 | 106.53 |
| 11 | Murad Kurbanov | Moscow | 159.40 | 15 | 52.36 | 11 | 107.04 |
| 12 | Alexander Samarin | Moscow | 157.83 | 20 | 48.57 | 8 | 109.26 |
| 13 | Feodosiy Efremenkov | Moscow | 157.42 | 13 | 52.64 | 13 | 104.78 |
| 14 | Moris Kvitelashvili | Moscow | 154.91 | 12 | 53.66 | 15 | 101.25 |
| 15 | Sergei Alexeev | Moscow | 154.81 | 14 | 52.44 | 14 | 102.37 |
| 16 | Andrei Zuber | Saint Petersburg | 149.28 | 11 | 54.00 | 18 | 95.28 |
| 17 | Sergei Borodulin | Moscow | 148.42 | 16 | 52.32 | 16 | 96.10 |
| 18 | Adyan Pitkeev | Moscow | 148.18 | 8 | 55.46 | 19 | 92.72 |
| 19 | Artemiy Punin | Moscow | 146.64 | 17 | 51.04 | 17 | 95.60 |
| 20 | Artem Lezheev | Saint Petersburg | 131.80 | 19 | 49.56 | 20 | 82.24 |

#### Ladies

| Rank | Name | City or region | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Saint Petersburg | 193.56 | 1 | 60.96 | 1 | 132.60 |
| 2 | Polina Shelepen | Moscow | 174.33 | 2 | 60.31 | 3 | 114.02 |
| 3 | Rosa Sheveleva | Moscow Oblast | 173.58 | 3 | 57.30 | 2 | 116.28 |
| 4 | Elena Radionova | Moscow | 158.97 | 5 | 54.75 | 4 | 104.22 |
| 5 | Natalia Ogoreltseva | | 154.71 | 6 | 53.31 | 5 | 101.40 |
| 6 | Sofia Biryukova | Moscow | 153.77 | 4 | 56.99 | 6 | 96.78 |
| 7 | Polina Agafonova | Saint Petersburg | 145.61 | 8 | 50.99 | 7 | 94.62 |
| 8 | Kristina Zaseeva | Moscow | 139.38 | 9 | 48.21 | 11 | 91.17 |
| 9 | Daria Medvedeva | Saint Petersburg | 139.00 | 12 | 45.68 | 8 | 93.32 |
| 10 | Ekaterina Frolova | Moscow | 137.30 | 11 | 45.76 | 10 | 91.54 |
| 11 | Polina Korobeinikova | Moscow | 132.26 | 17 | 40.29 | 9 | 91.97 |
| 12 | Evgenia Medvedeva | Moscow | 131.50 | 13 | 42.57 | 12 | 88.93 |
| 13 | Valentina Chernysheva | Saint Petersburg | 125.25 | 16 | 40.42 | 13 | 84.83 |
| 14 | Arina Petrova | Saint Petersburg | 124.95 | 14 | 41.79 | 14 | 83.16 |
| 15 | Anna Pogorilaya | Moscow | 121.96 | 15 | 41.26 | 15 | 80.70 |
| 16 | Alexandra Deeva | Moscow | 117.42 | 18 | 37.21 | 16 | 80.21 |
| 17 | Daria Afanasieva | | 117.30 | 10 | 47.77 | 17 | 69.53 |
| WD | Yulia Lipnitskaya | Moscow | | 7 | 51.75 | | |

#### Pairs

| Rank | Name | City or region | Total points | SP | SP | FS | FS |
| 1 | Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov | Saint Petersburg | 177.96 | 1 | 62.63 | 1 | 115.33 |
| 2 | Alexandra Vasilieva / Yuri Shevchuk | Saint Petersburg | 149.26 | 2 | 51.54 | 2 | 97.72 |
| 3 | Kristina Astakhova / Nikita Bochkov | Moscow | 143.84 | 3 | 51.05 | 5 | 92.79 |
| 4 | Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurdiukov | Moscow | 142.21 | 5 | 46.67 | 3 | 95.54 |
| 5 | Anna Silaeva / Artur Minchuk | Saint Petersburg | 142.08 | 4 | 49.21 | 4 | 92.87 |
| 6 | Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev | Perm | 128.05 | 7 | 43.41 | 6 | 84.64 |
| 7 | Valeria Grechukhina / Andrei Filonov | Moscow | 125.98 | 6 | 44.67 | 8 | 81.31 |
| 8 | Elizaveta Semenova / Maxim Petukhov | Perm | 124.18 | 9 | 40.53 | 7 | 83.65 |
| 9 | Anastasia Dolidze / Igor Chudin | Moscow | 120.19 | 8 | 40.81 | 9 | 79.38 |
| 10 | Yana Volkova / Alexei Petryanin | Perm | 107.67 | 10 | 38.42 | 11 | 69.25 |
| 11 | Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin | Moscow | 106.48 | 11 | 36.94 | 10 | 69.54 |

#### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | City or region | Total points | SD | SD | FD | FD |
| 1 | Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin | Moscow | 158.64 | 1 | 65.33 | 1 | 93.31 |
| 2 | Ekaterina Pushkash / Jonathan Guerreiro | Moscow | 147.09 | 3 | 58.13 | 2 | 88.96 |
| 3 | Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin | Moscow Oblast | 142.81 | 2 | 59.43 | 3 | 83.38 |
| 4 | Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin | Moscow | 139.57 | 4 | 57.69 | 5 | 81.88 |
| 5 | Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin | Moscow | 138.73 | 5 | 56.17 | 4 | 82.56 |
| 6 | Valeria Loseva / Denis Lunin | Moscow | 123.69 | 6 | 50.02 | 6 | 73.67 |
| 7 | Anna Yanovskaya / Egor Koshcheev | Moscow | 118.17 | 8 | 46.93 | 7 | 71.24 |
| 8 | Maria Simonova / Dmitri Dragun | Tolyatti | 116.86 | 9 | 46.72 | 8 | 70.14 |
| 9 | Tatiana Baturintseva / Sergei Mozgov | Moscow | 113.99 | 7 | 48.55 | 11 | 65.44 |
| 10 | Daria Morozova / Mikhail Zhirnov | Moscow | 111.27 | 10 | 48.55 | 9 | 68.61 |
| 11 | Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin | Tolyatti | 105.46 | 12 | 37.83 | 10 | 67.63 |
| 12 | Elizaveta Tretiakova / Alexandr Savin | Moscow | 100.55 | 11 | 40.14 | 13 | 60.41 |
| 13 | Kristina Baklanova / Andrei Bagin | Moscow | 99.17 | 14 | 35.31 | 12 | 63.86 |
| 14 | Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko | Moscow | 95.24 | 13 | 36.61 | 14 | 58.63 |

## International team selections
### European Championships

The team to the 2011 European Championships was announced as follows:
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Konstantin Menshov | Alena Leonova | Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev |
| 2 | Artur Gachinski | Ksenia Makarova | Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov | Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko |
| 3 | | | Katarina Gerboldt / Alexander Enbert | Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov |
| 1st alternate | Sergei Voronov | Sofia Biryukova | Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze | Jana Khokhlova / Fedor Andreev |
| 2nd alternate | Zhan Bush | | Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov | Kristina Gorshkova / Vitali Butikov |
* At the previous European Championships, Russia earned three spots each in pair skating and ice dancing and two spots each in the singles events.
* Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov were ineligible due to a nationality change.
* Adelina Sotnikova and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva were ineligible due to age.

### Winter Universiade

The team for the 2011 Winter Universiade was announced as follows:
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Sergei Voronov | Maria Artemieva | Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze | Kristina Gorshkova / Vitali Butikov |
| 2 | Ivan Bariev | Ekaterina Kozyreva | Sabina Imaikina / Konstantin Bezmaternikh | Angelina Telegina / Valentin Molotov |
| 3 | Denis Leushin | | Ksenia Ozerova / Denis Golubev | |

### World Championships

The team to the 2011 World Championships was announced following the results of the European Championships.
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Artur Gachinski | Alena Leonova | Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov | Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev |
| 2 | | Ksenia Makarova | Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov | Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov |
| 3 | | | Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov | |
| 1st alternate | Konstantin Menshov | | | Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko |
| 2nd alternate | | | | Jana Khokhlova / Fedor Andreev |
* At the previous World Championships, Russia earned three berths in pair skating, two in ladies and ice dance, and one in men's skating.
* Tatiana Volosozhar and Maxim Trankov become eligible after completing their one-year disqualification period due to a nationality change.
* Adelina Sotnikova and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva remain ineligible due to age.

### World Junior Championships

The team to the 2011 World Junior Championships was announced as follows:
| | Men | Ladies | Pairs | Ice dancing |
| 1 | Artur Dmitriev Jr. | Adelina Sotnikova | Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov | Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin |
| 2 | Zhan Bush | Elizaveta Tuktamysheva | Alexandra Vasilieva / Yuri Shevchuk | Ekaterina Pushkash / Jonathan Guerreiro |
| 3 | Gordei Gorshkov | Polina Shelepen | Kristina Astakhova / Nikita Bochkov | Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin |