“Of course, he is a great skater who made a great contribution to the development of figure skating, he and Lyudmila (Belousova) devoted their lives to the ice and focused their destinies on each other.
They did not become great coaches or great parents, they decided to skate always and everywhere, and there is a certain complicity there too. I don’t know exactly when they retired, but I do know that at age 70 they continued to perform at a pretty good level and loved performing in ice shows.
Legendary figure skater Protopopov has died at the age of 92.
It is especially valuable for me that I was the only one who managed to persuade them, they were quite complex people, they did not want to come to Russia, but I literally persuaded them to come and perform in my show. It was the only time after the Soviet period when they returned to Russia and performed,” Averbukh was quoted as saying by TASS.
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