Figure skater Baranova: “I gave Kondratyuk a vinyl record of Vivaldi for his birthday, we sat at his house and listened”

Figure skater Sofya Baranova said in an interview with that after finishing her professional career, she remained on good terms with a number of athletes.

Baranova trained under Svetlana Sokolovskaya at CSKA from 2010 to 2021. The last major tournament for the figure skater was the Russian Junior Championships in 2020, where she took 19th place. Today, 19-year-old Baranova no longer competes among professionals.

“Sport gave me experience, knowledge, friends. Good contact with Anya Frolova, Masha Levushkina. I always communicate with Mark Kondratyuk, he is wonderful and versatile. For his birthday I gave him a vinyl record of Vivaldi – “The Seasons”, we sat at his house and listened. You can discuss absolutely anything with him, the person has an opinion on various subjects.

I finished the sport on time. I came out and told everyone straight up that I wasn’t having fun anymore, I was tired of proving it. Lots of tears and nerves. After finishing her career as a figure skater, she took up curling and was even invited to join the national team, but that year there was the Unified State Exam and she dropped out this adventure. I started dancing. She graduated with a third-class junior nursing diploma in year ten. I tried to work – in a jewelry company, as a waitress. Now I am studying at a financial university to become a psychologist. I started training at the age of 15, I still work with children, but later I decided not to connect my life with sports. This is an outdated stage. “I want to move on,” Baranova told .