page_title: Votkinsk
section_title: Notable people
hierarchical_section_title: Votkinsk / Notable people
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Внутренний двор Музея-Усадьбы
context_page_description: Votkinsk is an industrial town in the Udmurt Republic, Russia. Population: 99,022; 99,441; 103,509.
context_section_description: The town is the birthplace of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a Russian composer who spent the first eight years of his life here. Today, the house of his birth is home to the Tchaikovsky Museum.
  Also the high jumper Rudolf Povarnitsyn was born in Votkinsk. His greatest achievement was a bronze medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics for the USSR. His personal best jump of 2.40 metres, set in Donetsk, was also the world record from August 11 to September 4, 1985, when Igor Paklin beat it by one centimetre. Rudolf's record is unique in that his personal best preceding his record setting competition was 2.26 m.
caption: Inner courtyard of Tchaikovsky's Museum Estate
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