Russian Figure Skating Championships

For the junior-level championships, see Russian Junior Figure Skating Championships.

The Russian Figure Skating Championships (Russian: Чемпионат России по фигурному катанию) are an annual figure skating competition organized by the Figure Skating Federation of Russia (Russian: Федерация фигурного катания на коньках России) to crown the national champions of Russia. The first Russian Championships were held in 1897 in Saint Petersburg, open only to men and featuring both figure skating and speed skating. A separate competition for women debuted in 1911. The last championships prior to the Russian Revolution took place in 1915. During the period when Russia was part of the Soviet Union, Russian skaters competed in the Soviet Figure Skating Championships. After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, separate Russian Championships resumed, and have been held without interruption since.

Russian Figure Skating Championships
Status	Active
Genre	National championships
Frequency	Annual
Country	Russia
Previous event	2025 Russian Championships
Next event	2026 Russian Championships
Organized by	Figure Skating Federation of Russia

Medals are awarded in men's singles, women's singles, pair skating, and ice dance at the senior, junior, and novice levels. Evgeni Plushenko holds the record for winning the most Russian Championship titles in men's singles (with ten), while Maria Butyrskaya holds the record in women's singles (with six). Two teams are tied for winning the most titles in pair skating (with four each): Marina Eltsova and Andrei Bushkov; and Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze. Additionally, Maxim Trankov won four titles in pair skating, but not with the same partner. Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev hold the record in ice dance (with seven).

History

Figure skating was first introduced in Russia by Peter the Great when he brought ice skates from Western Europe. The first ice rink in Russia was opened in 1865 in the Yusupov Gardens in Saint Petersburg, and Saint Petersburg hosted the first figure skating competition in Russia in 1878.^[1] The first official Russian Championships were held in 1897; Aleksandr Panshin became the first official Russian national champion.^[2] No men's competitions were held between 1914 and 1915 due to World War I and no competitions were held at all between 1916 and 1919 due to the Russian Revolution. The Revolution was followed by a period of Soviet control in Russia, and in 1922, the establishment of the Soviet Union.^[3] Russian skaters competed at the Soviet Figure Skating Championships between 1920 and 1992. The last installment of the Soviet Championships were held in Kyiv, in what was then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, in December 1991.^[4]

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the Russian Federation emerged as an independent nation.^[5] The first championships of the newly independent Russia took place in Chelyabinsk in 1993. Alexei Urmanov won the men's event, Maria Butyrskaya won the women's event, Marina Eltsova and Andrei Bushkov won the pairs event, and Anjelika Krylova and Vladimir Fedorov won the ice dance event.^[6] Selection criteria for competing in the Russian Championships are vague. Skaters compete in a series of events known as the Russian Grand Prix in order to advance to the Russian Championships.^[7] The competitions' results were among the criteria used to determine Russia's teams sent to the European Figure Skating Championships,^[7] although Russian athletes have been banned from all international competitions since the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[8]

Senior medalists

The reigning Russian figure skating champions (from left to right): Petr Gumennik (men's singles); Adeliia Petrosian (women's singles); Aleksandra Boikova and Dmitrii Kozlovskii (pair skating); and Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin (ice dance)

Men's singles

Men's event medalists

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1897	Saint Petersburg	Alexander Panshin	No other competitors		[2]
1898					[9]
1899					[10]
1900					[11]
1901		Nikolai Panin			[12]
1902					[13]
1903					[14]
1904					[15]
1905			Fyodor Datlin	Karl Ollo	[16]
1906		Fyodor Datlin	No other competitors		[17]
1907	No competition held
1908	Saint Petersburg	Fyodor Datlin	No other competitors		[18]
1909	No competition held
1910	Saint Petersburg	Karl Ollo	No other competitors		[19]
1911					[20]
1912					[21]
1913		Ivan Malinin	Igor Krevin	No other competitors	[22]
1914–15		No men's competitions due to World War I
1916–19	No competitions due to the Russian Revolution
1920–92	See Soviet Figure Skating Championships
1993	Chelyabinsk	Alexei Urmanov	Oleg Tataurov	Roman Ekimov	[6]
1994	Saint Petersburg			Igor Pashkevich	[23]
1995	Moscow		Ilia Kulik	Oleg Tataurov	[24]
1996	Samara			Igor Pashkevich	[25]
1997	Moscow	Ilia Kulik	Alexei Urmanov	Alexei Yagudin	[26]
1998			Alexei Yagudin	Evgeni Plushenko	[27]
1999		Evgeni Plushenko		Alexei Urmanov	[28]
2000				Alexander Abt	[29]
2001					[30]
2002			Alexander Abt	Ilia Klimkin	[31]
2003	Kazan	Alexander Abt	Ilia Klimkin	Stanislav Timchenko	[32]
2004	Saint Petersburg	Evgeni Plushenko		Andrei Griazev	[33]
2005			Andrei Griazev	Andrei Lezin	[34]
2006	Kazan		Ilia Klimkin	Sergei Dobrin	[35]
2007	Mytishchi	Andrei Griazev	Andrei Lutai		[36]
2008	Saint Petersburg	Sergei Voronov		Andrei Griazev	[37]
2009	Kazan		Artem Borodulin	Andrei Lutai	[38]
2010	Saint Petersburg	Evgeni Plushenko	Sergei Voronov	Artem Borodulin	[39]
2011	Saransk	Konstantin Menshov	Artur Gachinski	Zhan Bush	[40]
2012		Evgeni Plushenko		Sergei Voronov	[41]
2013	Sochi		Sergei Voronov	Konstantin Menshov	[42]
2014		Maxim Kovtun	Evgeni Plushenko	Sergei Voronov	[43]
2015			Sergei Voronov	Adian Pitkeev	[44]
2016	Yekaterinburg		Mikhail Kolyada	Alexander Petrov	[45]
2017	Chelyabinsk	Mikhail Kolyada	Alexander Samarin	Maxim Kovtun	[46]
2018	Saint Petersburg			Dmitri Aliev	[47]
2019	Saransk	Maxim Kovtun	Mikhail Kolyada	Alexander Samarin	[48]
2020	Krasnoyarsk	Dmitri Aliev	Artur Danielian		[49]
2021	Chelyabinsk	Mikhail Kolyada	Makar Ignatov	Mark Kondratiuk	[50]
2022	Saint Petersburg	Mark Kondratiuk	Mikhail Kolyada	Andrei Mozalev	[51]
2023	Krasnoyarsk	Evgeni Semenenko	Petr Gumennik	Alexander Samarin	[52]
2024	Chelyabinsk		Vladislav Dikidzhi	Petr Gumennik	[53]
2025	Omsk	Vladislav Dikidzhi	Gleb Lutfullin	Evgeni Semenenko	[54]
2026	Saint Petersburg	Petr Gumennik	Evgeni Semenenko	Mark Kondratiuk	[55]

Women's singles

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1911	Saint Petersburg	Ksenia Caesar	Lidia Popova	No other competitors	[20]
1912			No other competitors		[21]
1913					[22]
1914					[56]
1915					[57]
1916–19	No competitions due to the Russian Revolution
1920–92	See Soviet Figure Skating Championships
1993	Chelyabinsk	Maria Butyrskaya	Julia Vorobieva	Tatiana Rachkova	[6]
1994	Saint Petersburg	Olga Markova	Maria Butyrskaya	Irina Slutskaya	[23]
1995	Moscow	Maria Butyrskaya	Olga Markova		[24]
1996	Samara		Irina Slutskaya	Olga Markova	[25]
1997	Moscow		Olga Markova	Irina Slutskaya	[26]
1998			Julia Soldatova	Elena Sokolova	[27]
1999				Viktoria Volchkova	[58]
2000		Irina Slutskaya	Maria Butyrskaya		[29]
2001			Viktoria Volchkova	Maria Butyrskaya	[59]
2002			Maria Butyrskaya	Viktoria Volchkova	[31]
2003	Kazan	Elena Sokolova	Irina Slutskaya	Tatiana Basova	[32]
2004	Saint Petersburg		Julia Soldatova	Kristina Oblasova	[33]
2005		Irina Slutskaya	Elena Sokolova	Lilia Biktagirova	[34]
2006	Kazan	Elena Sokolova	Viktoria Volchkova		[35]
2007	Mytishchi	Ksenia Doronina	Alexandra Ievleva	Elena Sokolova	[36]
2008	Saint Petersburg		Nina Petushkova	Olga Naidenova	[37]
2009	Kazan	Adelina Sotnikova	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Katarina Gerboldt	[38]
2010	Saint Petersburg	Ksenia Makarova	Alena Leonova	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	[39]
2011	Saransk	Adelina Sotnikova			[40]
2012			Yulia Lipnitskaya	Alena Leonova	[41]
2013	Sochi	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Elena Radionova	Adelina Sotnikova	[42]
2014		Adelina Sotnikova	Yulia Lipnitskaya	Elena Radionova	[43]
2015		Elena Radionova	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Evgenia Medvedeva	[44]
2016	Yekaterinburg	Evgenia Medvedeva	Elena Radionova	Anna Pogorilaya	[45]
2017	Chelyabinsk		Alina Zagitova	Maria Sotskova	[46]
2018	Saint Petersburg	Alina Zagitova	Maria Sotskova	Alena Kostornaia	[47]
2019	Saransk	Anna Shcherbakova	Alexandra Trusova		[48]
2020	Krasnoyarsk		Alena Kostornaia	Alexandra Trusova	[49]
2021	Chelyabinsk		Kamila Valieva		[50]
2022	Saint Petersburg	Alexandra Trusova	Anna Shcherbakova	Adeliia Petrosian	[51]
2023	Krasnoyarsk	Sofia Akateva	Elizaveta Tuktamysheva	Sofia Muravieva	[52]
2024	Chelyabinsk	Adeliia Petrosian	Sofia Muravieva	Kseniia Sinitsyna	[53]
2025	Omsk		Daria Sadkova	Alina Gorbacheva	[54]
2026	Saint Petersburg		Alisa Dvoeglazova	Maria Zakharova	[55]

Pair skating

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1920–92	See Soviet Figure Skating Championships
1993	Chelyabinsk	Marina Eltsova Andrei Bushkov	Elena Tobiash Sergei Smirnov	Natalia Krestianinova Alexei Torchinski	[60]
1994	Saint Petersburg	Ekaterina Gordeeva Sergei Grinkov	Natalia Mishkutionok Artur Dmitriev	Evgenia Shishkova Vadim Naumov	[23]
1995	Moscow	Marina Eltsova Andrei Bushkov	Maria Petrova Anton Sikharulidze	Natalia Krestianinova Alexei Torchinski	[24]
1996	Samara	Evgenia Shishkova Vadim Naumov	Marina Eltsova Andrei Bushkov	Oksana Kazakova Artur Dmitriev	[25]
1997	Moscow	Marina Eltsova Andrei Bushkov	Elena Berezhnaya Anton Sikharulidze	Evgenia Shishkova Vadim Naumov	[26]
1998				Oksana Kazakova Artur Dmitriev	[27]
1999		Elena Berezhnaya Anton Sikharulidze	Maria Petrova Alexei Tikhonov	Tatiana Totmianina Maxim Marinin	[28]
2000					[29]
2001					[59]
2002			Tatiana Totmianina Maxim Marinin	Maria Petrova Alexei Tikhonov	[31]
2003	Kazan	Tatiana Totmianina Maxim Marinin	Maria Petrova Alexei Tikhonov	Julia Obertas Alexei Sokolov	[32]
2004	Saint Petersburg				[33]
2005					[34]
2006	Kazan	Maria Petrova Alexei Tikhonov	Julia Obertas Sergei Slavnov	Maria Mukhortova Maxim Trankov	[35]
2007	Mytishchi	Maria Mukhortova Maxim Trankov		Elena Efaeva Alexei Menshikov	[36]
2008	Saint Petersburg	Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov	Maria Mukhortova Maxim Trankov	Arina Ushakova Sergei Karev	[37]
2009	Kazan			Lubov Iliushechkina Nodari Maisuradze	[38]
2010	Saint Petersburg			Vera Bazarova Yuri Larionov	[39]
2011	Saransk	Tatiana Volosozhar Maxim Trankov	Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov		[40]
2012		Vera Bazarova Yuri Larionov	Ksenia Stolbova Fedor Klimov	Anastasia Martiusheva Alexei Rogonov	[41]
2013	Sochi	Tatiana Volosozhar Maxim Trankov	Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov	Ksenia Stolbova Fedor Klimov	[42]
2014		Ksenia Stolbova Fedor Klimov	Vera Bazarova Yuri Larionov	Maria Vigalova Egor Zakroev	[43]
2015			Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov	[44]
2016	Yekaterinburg	Tatiana Volosozhar Maxim Trankov	Yuko Kavaguti Alexander Smirnov	Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	[45]
2017	Chelyabinsk	Ksenia Stolbova Fedor Klimov	Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	Natalia Zabiiako Alexander Enbert	[46]
2018	Saint Petersburg	Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	Ksenia Stolbova Fedor Klimov	Natalia Zabiiako Alexander Enbert	[47]
2019	Saransk		Natalia Zabiiako Alexander Enbert	Aleksandra Boikova Dmitrii Kozlovskii	[48]
2020	Krasnoyarsk	Aleksandra Boikova Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	Daria Pavliuchenko Denis Khodykin	[49]
2021	Chelyabinsk	Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	Aleksandra Boikova Dmitrii Kozlovskii		[50]
2022	Saint Petersburg	Anastasia Mishina Aleksandr Galliamov		Evgenia Tarasova Vladimir Morozov	[51]
2023	Krasnoyarsk	Aleksandra Boikova Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Anastasia Mishina Aleksandr Galliamov		[52]
2024	Chelyabinsk	Anastasia Mishina Aleksandr Galliamov	Aleksandra Boikova Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Ekaterina Chikmareva Matvei Ianchenkov	[53]
2025	Omsk			Natalia Khabibullina Ilya Knyazhuk	[54]
2026	Saint Petersburg	Aleksandra Boikova Dmitrii Kozlovskii	Anastasia Mishina Aleksandr Galliamov	Ekaterina Chikmareva Matvei Ianchenkov	[55]

Ice dance

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Ref.
1958–92	See Soviet Figure Skating Championships
1993	Chelyabinsk	Anjelika Krylova Vladimir Fedorov	Elena Kustarova Oleg Ovsyannikov	Olga Ganicheva Maksim Kachanov	[6]
1994	Saint Petersburg			Irina Lobacheva Ilia Averbukh	[61]
1995	Moscow	Anjelika Krylova Oleg Ovsyannikov	Elena Kustarova Vazgen Azrojan		[24]
1996	Samara	Oksana Grishuk Evgeni Platov	Anjelika Krylova Oleg Ovsyannikov		[25]
1997	Moscow	Irina Lobacheva Ilia Averbukh	Olga Sharutenko Dmitri Naumkin	Ekaterina Davydova Roman Kostomarov	[26]
1998		Anjelika Krylova Oleg Ovsyannikov	Irina Lobacheva Ilia Averbukh	Anna Semenovich Vladimir Fedorov	[27]
1999				Tatiana Navka Roman Kostomarov	[28]
2000		Irina Lobacheva Ilia Averbukh	Anna Semenovich Roman Kostomarov	Oksana Potdykova Denis Petukhov	[29]
2001			Tatiana Navka Roman Kostomarov	Natalia Romaniuta Daniil Barantsev	[59]
2002					[31]
2003	Kazan	Tatiana Navka Roman Kostomarov	Svetlana Kulikova Arseni Markov	Oksana Domnina Maxim Shabalin	[32]
2004	Saint Petersburg		Oksana Domnina Maxim Shabalin	Svetlana Kulikova Vitali Novikov	[33]
2005		Oksana Domnina Maxim Shabalin	Svetlana Kulikova Vitali Novikov	Jana Khokhlova Sergei Novitski	[34]
2006	Kazan	Tatiana Navka Roman Kostomarov	Oksana Domnina Maxim Shabalin		[35]
2007	Mytishchi	Oksana Domnina Maxim Shabalin	Jana Khokhlova Sergei Novitski	Ekaterina Rubleva Ivan Shefer	[36]
2008	Saint Petersburg	Jana Khokhlova Sergei Novitski	Ekaterina Rubleva Ivan Shefer	Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev	[37]
2009	Kazan			Kristina Gorshkova Vitali Butikov	[38]
2010	Saint Petersburg	Oksana Domnina Maxim Shabalin	Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev	Ekaterina Rubleva Ivan Shefer	[39]
2011	Saransk	Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev	Ekaterina Riazanova Ilia Tkachenko	Elena Ilinykh Nikita Katsalapov	[40]
2012	Saransk		Elena Ilinykh Nikita Katsalapov	Ekaterina Riazanova Ilia Tkachenko	[41]
2013	Sochi				[42]
2014	Sochi			Victoria Sinitsina Ruslan Zhiganshin	[43]
2015	Sochi	Elena Ilinykh Ruslan Zhiganshin	Ksenia Monko Kirill Khaliavin	Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin	[44]
2016	Yekaterinburg	Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev	Victoria Sinitsina Nikita Katsalapov		[45]
2017	Chelyabinsk		Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin	Victoria Sinitsina Nikita Katsalapov	[46]
2018	Saint Petersburg			Tiffany Zahorski Jonathan Guerreiro	[47]
2019	Saransk	Victoria Sinitsina Nikita Katsalapov		Sofia Evdokimova Egor Bazin	[48]
2020	Krasnoyarsk			Tiffany Zahorski Jonathan Guerreiro	[49]
2021	Chelyabinsk	Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin	Tiffany Zahorski Jonathan Guerreiro	Anastasia Skoptsova Kirill Aleshin	[50]
2022	Saint Petersburg		Diana Davis Gleb Smolkin	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva Egor Bazin	[51]
2023	Krasnoyarsk	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva Egor Bazin	Elizaveta Shanaeva Pavel Drozd	Elizaveta Pasechnik Maxim Nekrasov	[52]
2024	Chelyabinsk	Alexandra Stepanova Ivan Bukin	Elizaveta Khudaiberdieva Egor Bazin	Irina Khavronina Devid Naryzhnyy	[53]
2025	Omsk				[54]
2026	Saint Petersburg		Vasilisa Kaganovskaia Maxim Nekrasov	Elizaveta Pasechnik Dario Cirisano	[55]

Records

From left to right: Evgeni Plushenko has won ten Russian Championship titles in men's singles; Ekaterina Bobrova and Dmitri Soloviev have won seven Russian Championship titles in ice dance; and Maxim Trankov has won four Russian Championship titles in pair skating, three of which were with Tatiana Volosozhar.

Records

Discipline	Most championship titles
	Skater(s)	No.	Years	Ref.
Men's singles	Evgeni Plushenko	10	1999–2002; 2004–06; 2010; 2012–13	[62]
Women's singles	Maria Butyrskaya	6	1993; 1995–99	[63]
Pairs	Elena Berezhnaya Anton Sikharulidze	4	1999–2002	[64]
	Marina Eltsova Andrei Bushkov		1993; 1995; 1997–98	[60][65]
	Maxim Trankov [a]		2007; 2011; 2013; 2016	[66][67]
Ice dance	Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev	7	2011–14; 2016–18	[68]

Note

1. Maxim Trankov has won one championship title while partnered with Maria Mukhortova (2007) and three with Tatiana Volosozhar (2011, 2013, 2016).