Honored Coach of the USSR in Figure Skating Tatiana Tarasova told that she would definitely visit the graves of Oleg Protopopov and Lyudmila Belousova in St. Petersburg.
Figure skaters Oleg Protopopov and Lyudmila Belousova will be farewelled in St. Petersburg on Wednesday. Protopopov’s ashes were flown to Russia from Switzerland, where he died on October 31, 2023, at the age of 91. The skater’s will stated that he should be buried with Belousova in St. Petersburg; she died in September 2017. Protopopov kept Lyudmila Evgenievna’s ashes at his home.
— Are you upset that you were unable to attend Protopopov and Belousova’s farewell?
– We have a skate show in St. Petersburg the day after tomorrow, we’re going there only tomorrow. I don’t know why this wasn’t agreed with the national team… A girl does that.
Thank God, they are buried here, in Russia, in the city they glorified. They were happy there. They wanted it that way, I am very happy. [исполнению их воли]. These are our first Olympic champions, we must have memory. “I will come to St. Petersburg and go to their cemetery,” Tarasova told .
The duo won the USSR championships six times, the world and European championships four times, and won gold at the 1964 and 1968 Olympic Games. Belousova and Protopopov were invited to Switzerland for demonstrations in 1979, where they remained. In August 1995, they were granted Swiss citizenship.
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