Pyotr Orlov
Full namePyotr Petrovich Orlov
Born(1912-07-11)11 July 1912
Kurganovo, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire
Died1989
Figure skating career
Country Russia →  Soviet Union
CoachFyodor Datlin
Nikolai Panin
Ksenia Caesar
Skating clubDynamo, Leningrad

Pyotr Petrovich Orlov (Russian: Пётр Петрович Орлов; 1912 – 1989) was a Soviet figure skater and pair skating coach.[1] He was a three-time champion of the USSR (1946, 1947, 1951) and bronze medalist of the USSR championship (1938) in pair skating[2] and Master of Sports of the USSR in (1938) and Honored Coach of the USSR (1958).

Biography

Pyotr was born on 11 July 1912 in the village of Kurganovo, Tver Governorate. He was involved in figure skating as part of the Dynamo Sports Club in Leningrad. In 1938 he graduated from the Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health.

Figure skating classes continued until 1946. After World War II, Orlov was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War second class (1985). In the post-war years, he sought out Leningrad skaters, and resumed the work of the figure skating section.

He was judge of the Republican category of the RSFSR figure skating (1958). In 1960 he moved from Leningrad to Kiev to work as a coach of the Ukrainian artistic and sports ensemble.

Among his famous wards are Igor Moskvin, Maya Belenkaya,[3] Lyudmila Belousova, Oleg Protopopov, Nina Zhuk, Stanislav Zhuk,[4] and Nina Mozer.[5]

He died in 1989. He is buried in Kiev.

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