Ilya Averbuh

Ilya Izyaslavich Averbukh is a figure skating star of the USSR and Russia, Honored Master of Sports and multiple champion of sports ice dancing, silver medalist of the Winter Olympic Games in the American Salt Lake City. After completing his sports career, he used his talent by creating his own ice show.

Ilya Averbukh, an outstanding athlete of Russia and the USSR, was born into an intelligent Moscow family in December 1973. He is Jewish by nationality, which he has always been proud of. At the age of 15, at the suggestion of one of the coaches to change his surname, Ilya said that he was born Averbukh and would remain him.

His parents were far from sports: father Izyaslav Naumovich Averbukh is an engineer, mother Yulia Markovna Burdo is a microbiologist by training. She became her son's guide to the world of figure skating.

For the first time, Ilya Averbukh set foot on the ice at the Avangard stadium at the age of 5, but was soon expelled as unpromising. At the insistence of his mother, Ilya again got into the section a year later. After another failure, the woman did not give up, but found a suitable coach for her son. Zhanna Gromova became her.

From childhood, Averbukh was preparing for a solo career, but physiology interfered: having gained 12 cm in height in one year, the guy stopped jumping without mistakes. After 13 years, Ilya switched to pair dancing, where he stayed. Later, his growth stopped at around 177 cm, and his weight - 70 kg.

In 1995, Ilya Averbukh married his figure skating partner Irina Lobacheva. In March 2004, in the United States, where the couple moved after the wedding, the couple had a son, Martin. They lived together for 12 years. In 2007, Ilya and Irina decided to part ways.

After going through a difficult divorce procedure, as they themselves claim, both breathed a sigh of relief. Ilya took over the full support of his ex-wife and son. Averbukh refused to share the jointly acquired property - everything remained with his ex-wife and their son Martin. At that time he was 3.5 years old. The former married couple remained with normal friendships. Martin often sees his dad.

After parting with Irina Lobacheva, the personal life of Ilya Averbukh was under the scrutiny of the press. For all the women who appeared next to the skater and producer, the paparazzi watched especially closely and soon managed to unearth the information of interest, although one cannot be sure of its reliability. Ilya Averbukh was "caught" in an affair with Alisa Grebenshchikova, who first took part in the Ice Age project in 2007.

In 2008, Alice gave birth to a son, and journalists attributed paternity to Ilya. It is noteworthy that Grebenshchikova broke up with her common-law husband Sergei Danduryan even before the birth of the boy. There is no weighty evidence of Averbukh's paternity, and Alice herself is silent on this topic.

In 2009, rumors flared up in the world of show business: the VIP-party started talking about the romance of Ilya Averbukh with the star of the series "Princess of the Circus" Valeria Lanskaya. Allegedly, a service romance between them arose during the "Ice Age". The star couple spent their free time together, but the romance ended as soon as the show ended.

Later, the director of the Ice Symphony company Ekaterina Tsanava, as well as Daria Gartung, whom Ilya accused of financial fraud at the end of the relationship, was recorded as the figure skater's chosen one.

In an interview, Ilya admitted that since the divorce he has been living as a convinced bachelor, and all the rumors that arise around his relationship with the opposite sex have nothing to do with reality. In his life, the main place is occupied by a career, as well as raising a son. Martin has been living with his father since adolescence, so the skater is responsible for the education of the child.

According to Averbukh, he never managed to become a dictatorial father. He maintains friendly relations with his son, maintaining a positive mood in communication. Nevertheless, Ilya manages to follow Martin's development. The guy will not become a professional skater, but sport is present in his life on an ongoing basis.

The baton from coach Zhanna Gromova was taken over by the famous figure skater and coach Natalya Linichuk. In his early youth, the athlete managed to join the ranks of the Russian national team.

In 1990 and 1992, Averbukh's sports biography was marked by a long-awaited victory: together with Marina Anisina in the junior league, Ilya Averbukh becomes a two-time world champion. Soon the creative duet broke up.

Since 1992, Ilya Averbukh began to skate in tandem with figure skater Irina Lobacheva. The skater was familiar with his partner since childhood.

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In 1995, Averbukh and Lobacheva moved to the United States, where they lived and trained until the 2000 Olympic Games. Due to Irina's injury, the 2001/2002 season and all stages of the Grand Prix were missed: Lobacheva injured her knee in training in September 2001.

The sports biography of Ilya Averbukh did not end there: already in the next season, the Averbukh-Lobachev tandem performed successfully, winning silver medals at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, America. In an interview, Ilya admitted that since the divorce he has been living as a convinced bachelor, and all the rumors that arise around his relationship with the opposite sex have nothing to do with reality. In his life, the main place is occupied by a career, as well as raising a son. Martin has been living with his father since adolescence, so the skater is responsible for the education of the child.

According to Averbukh, he never managed to become a dictatorial father. He maintains friendly relations with his son, maintaining a positive mood in communication. Nevertheless, Ilya manages to follow Martin's development. The guy will not become a professional skater, but sport is present in his life on an ongoing basis.

The figure skaters stayed in amateur sports for another year. They won the European Championship and finished 2nd in the World Championship.

In 2004, the Olympic couple Averbukh and Lobacheva returned from the United States to Russia, deciding to end the amateur career of athletes and no longer compete. As Ilya later recalled, he prepared for leaving the sport for a long time and thoroughly. In America, the man did not want to stay, since the road to big show business was closed for emigrants. All that awaited a sports couple was coaching, and of a lower order.

Saying goodbye to professional sports, Ilya Averbukh was not going to part with figure skating: in 2004 he organized his own show "Ice Symphony", which he had dreamed of for a long time. This project was a magnificent theatrical ice show, in which the stars of the world figure skating took part: the champions of the world, Europe and the Olympic Games.

In his artistic preferences, Averbukh relied on the experience of Tatyana Tarasova and her All Stars Theater, as well as the Theater of Ice Miniatures by Igor Bobrin, which existed in Soviet times. The first performances of the skater troupe were similar in form to the Tom Collins show. Gala concerts at that time were not yet united by the script, but were a show of bright numbers of a different nature.

In 2006, Ilya Averbukh's Ice Symphony company presented the Stars on Ice show to television viewers for the first time on Channel One, in which celebrities from the world of cinema and stage, as well as athletes, participate. Ilya Averbukh acted as the producer and choreographer of the show.

The project was an overwhelming success, and subsequently similar ones were created: from 2007 to 2009 - "Ice Age", "Ice Age - 2", "Ice Age. Global warming". Marat Basharov, Irina Slutskaya, Alexey Yagudin, Alla Mikheeva and others acted as TV presenters of the program at different times.

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And from 2010 to 2012, the projects “Ice and Fire”, “Bolero”, “Ice Age. Professional Cup ". The popularity of the programs was so great that at the end of each season, the participants arranged tours of the cities of Russia, near and far abroad.

In 2014, Ilya Averbukh became the producer and director of the new season of the television project "Cup of Professionals" on Channel One. Competitions are divided into 2 stages - team and individual, as at the Olympic Games in Sochi. And the participants were divided into the "Russian national team" and the "world team".

Later, Averbukh begins work on staging the musical "City Lights", which premiered at the Moscow State Central Concert Hall "Russia" in Luzhniki on October 14, 2010. Later, the children's play "Morozko" and the show "Carmen" appeared in the collective's repertoire.

The geography of the implemented projects of the entrepreneur's company is amazing: in 2016 alone, more than 100 cities hosted several performances staged by the famous coach: "Favorite films about the main thing", "Classmates", "12 months", "Mom", "Kid and Carlson" ...

Averbukh calls Tatyana Navka one of the main stars of the ice show sphere. According to him, the skater has the charisma that is necessary for prima status. Spectators of different age categories rush to the performances with the participation of the athlete. Evgeni Plushenko remains another competitor on the ice for the renowned choreographer. The champion got into show business later Averbukh, but his team, according to the choreographer, is a strong competitor.

The production of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King brought success to the Averbukh production company on New Year's 2017 holidays. According to Ilya, the members of his team showed a story that is interesting not only for children. The performance turned out to be multifaceted, its script differed from the libretto of the ballet, known to many music lovers of Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

In addition to working on stage and television projects, Averbukh remains one of the coveted choreographers in Russian figure skating. He gave numbers to Yulia Lipnitskaya, Evgenia Medvedeva and other athletes.

In 2016, Averbukh presented the Buratino drive show to the public, the premiere of which took place as part of the Moscow Jam. Gifts of Nature ". In this performance, the director used elements of acrobatics, extreme sports and street dancing. The show involved the European and Russian champion in the discipline Freestyle Slalom Sofia Bogdanova.

Averbukh calls the TV show Ice Age. Children ”, which was launched on the First Channel in 2018. The program received high ratings of views and at the TEFI awards ceremony was awarded in the nomination "Television project about sports".

Now Averbukh is engaged in entrepreneurship, is the producer of his own ice show and trains Russian figure skaters. In April 2019, Luzhniki hosted a concert by Ilya's production company - the 15 Years of Success gala show.

2019 was not without a scandal. At the beginning of the year, ice shows from the company of Ilya Averbukh took place in Astrakhan. The skater himself denies his involvement in these tours. The producer expressed indignation at the actions of the swindlers from the page of the personal account on Instagram. He promised to contact the prosecutor's office.

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In 2019, the team of Ilya Averbukh conducted a large tour of Russian cities with productions of Romeo and Juliet and Carmen. The artist generously shares his photo and video materials with his subscribers.

One of the stars with whom Ilya is engaged is two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva. In 2020, despite a difficult training schedule, the figure skater was announced as one of the main performers of the New Year's show "The Wizard of Oz".

In February 2020, Averbukh launched a new ice show "Champions". The tour, designed for 2.5 months, included such cities as Lipetsk, Togliatti, Perm, Saratov. This is a performance created from numbers of different nature, united by a common drama. Many stars of the world figure skating, including Alexey Yagudin, Tatyana Totmianina, Maxim Marinin, took part in the production.

1990, 1992 - two-time world champion among juniors 1997, 2000-2002 - champion of Russia 2002 - medalist of the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City 2002 - world champion 2003 - champion of Europe 2003 - winner of the final of the championship series Grand Prix

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