Sofia Akatieva is not included in the list of participants of the Russian Figure Skating Championship, published on the website of the Russian Figure Skating Federation.
Akatieva is the current Russian champion. reported in November that doctors had banned the skater from putting weight on her leg for three months due to chronic pain and also asked her to rule out any competitive skating.
World champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva is also missing from the list, as she is missing the season.
The full list of participants is as follows:
women: Maria Agayeva, Ekaterina Anisimova, Sofya Vazhnova, Kamila Valieva, Alina Gorbacheva, Ksenia Gushchina, Sofia Zakharova, Elizaveta Kulikova, Arina Kshetskaya, Sofia Muravyova, Adelia Petrosyan, Daria Sadkova, Ksenia Sinitsyna, Maria Talalaikina, Anna Frolova, Lyudmila Fursova, Maya Khromykh , Veronika Yametova;
Men: Dmitry Aliev, Matvey Vetlugin, Pyotr Gumennik, Vladislav Dikidzhi, Alexey Erokhov, Fedor Zonov, Makar Ignatov, Mark Kondratyuk, Gleb Lutfullin, Andrey Mozalev, Daniil Postarnakov, Roman Savosin, Alexander Samarin, Daniil Samsonov, Evgeniy Semenenko, Semyon Solovyov, Grigory Fedorov , Ilya Yablokov;
sports couples: Yulia Artemyeva/Alexei Bryukhanov, Alexandra Boykova/Dmitry Kozlovsky, Yasmina Kadyrova/Valery Kolesov, Alena Kostornaya/Georgy Kunitsa, Elizaveta Kuleshova/Vladimir Sled, Anastasia Mishina/Alexander Gallyamov, Anastasia Mukhortova/Dmitry Evgeniev, Elizaveta Osokina/Artem Gritsaen ko, Nat alya Khabibullina/Ilya Knyazhuk, Ekaterina Chikmareva/Matvey Yanchenkov, Maya Shegai/Igor Shamshurov;
dancing on ice: Varvara Zhdanova/Timur Babaev-Smirnov, Sofia Kachushkina/Mark Volkov, Ksenia Krausova/Daniil Korochkin, Varvara Kurnosenko/Fedor Varlamov, Sofia Leontyeva/Daniil Gorelkin, Ekaterina Mironova/Evgeniy Ustenko, Alexandra Prokopets/Alexander Vaskovich, Daria Savkina/Alexander Vakhnov, Alexandra Stepanova/Ivan Bukin, Sofya Tyutyunina/Matvey Grachev, Polina Usova/Mikhail Antonov, Irina Khavronina/David Narizhny, Elizaveta Khudayberdieva/Egor Bazin, Elizaveta Shanaeva/Pavel Drozd, Sofia Shevchenko/Andrey Yezhlov.
The Russian Championship will take place in Chelyabinsk from December 20 to 24.
Source : MatchTV

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