Eteri Georgievna is a figure skating instructor from Russia who focuses on female single skaters. She is the head coach at the Sambo 70 skating club in Moscow.
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Early Life
Eteri Georgievna Tutberidze was born in Moscow on the 24th of February 1974. She is half Georgian, a quarter Russian, and a quarter Armenian, the youngest of five children. Her father was a foundry worker and taxi driver, while her mother was a senior engineer at the Ministry of Agricultural Construction.
Education
She earned a degree in choreography from the Institute of Contemporary Art after studying at the Malakhovka Academy of Physical Education. She resided in Oklahoma City, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, and San Antonio throughout the course of her six-year stay in the United States.
Personal Life
On January 16, 2003, she had a daughter named Diana who later became a single skater under her supervision until 2016 when she diverted into ice dancing.
Career
She began skating when she was four and a half years old, under the mentorship of Evgenia Zelikova and thereafter Edouard Pliner. She moved from solo to ice dancing after suffering a spine injury. She was taught for two years by Lidia Kabanova before joining Elena Tchaikovskaya, who teamed her with Vyacheslav Chichekin.
Eteri Georgievna trained briefly with Natalia Linichuk before switching to Gennady Akkerman, who has been her instructor for the past decade. She skated with Alexei Kiliakov till he moved to America.
She trained under Tatiana Tarasova throughout the 1991–1992 season before electing to compete in ice shows. She travelled with Ice Capades for several years as an adagio pair skater with Nikolai Apter.
She is currently the head coach of the Moscow-based Sambo 70 skating club. Olympic and World champion Alina Zagitova, two-time World champion and Olympic silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva, team Olympic champion Yulia Lipnitskaya, and 2021 World champion Anna Shcherbakova are among the skaters she has tutored to international success.
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