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Edouard Pliner is a figure skating coaching, who is currently living in Acton, Massachusetts, USA. He was born in June 13, 1936 in Yekaterinburg, Russia. He started skating at 14 years old. He was a master of figure skating USSR, from 1953 to 1961. He was a member of the USSR national team.

His experience:


 * Winner of the Kirov Cup, named after Panin the champion of Moscow.
 * Repeated silver medalist in Russia.
 * Participant of many international competitions.
 * 1959: graduated from the State Central Institute of Physical Culture (GTSOLIFK) and was appointed coach of the USSR State
 * 1960-1991: Over the years he has trained many champions of the USSR and the winners of many international competitions. The best known of them:
 * Natalia Bestemianova – champion of the Olympic Winter Games in 1988
 * Kira Ivanova – Bronze medalist in 1984 Winter Olimpiyski Game
 * Anna Kondrasheva – World championship silver medalist in 1984
 * Natalia Lebedeva – Twice the European championship silver medalist
 * Yuriy Bureika – World silver medalist Junior Championship
 * Konstantin Kostin – World silver medalist Junior championship in 1980

Since 1991, he worked as a visiting skating coach in Austria, Holland, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, Germany, and many other countries.

He was awarded honorary IPSU (International Professional Skating Union). Since 1993, he has been working in the USA at the Colonial Figure Skating Club (CFSC) in Acton, Massachusetts, USA. Several of his students competed in sectional, national, and world championship.