Ilya Averbukh: personal life, biography, photo

Those viewers who are completely unfamiliar with the kind of activity of such a well-known Russian sportsman as Ilya Averbukh, were able to see personally his talents as a figure skater and trainer in the Ice Age project, which appeared on the First Channel in September 2006 . For any of them this television acquaintance was not in vain. After all, most of the spectators, absorbed in the wonderful action that unfolded on the screen every Saturday night for three autumn months, became fans of figure skating. According to polls conducted at that time, it turned out that a large number of parents wrote their daughters and sons in circles, so that the kids could comprehend the basics of such a difficult but very beautiful sport.

"I was born"!

On December 18, 1973, the intelligent Moscow family increased by one person. Engineer Izyaslav Naumovich Averbukh and microbiologist Yulia Markovna Burdo had their beloved boy, future honored master of sports Ilya Averbukh. Who will be the little Ilyusha, suggested exactly by her mother, who had been dreaming of figure skating since childhood. While still in school, she knew by the names of all the skaters. Therefore, many years before the birth of the baby, his life was very carefully and meticulously built, because Yulia Markovna was sure that when she had a child, he would certainly learn how to skate.

Ilyushka was only five years old, and he already took the first step on the ice of the Avangard stadium. Unfortunately, he was soon expelled from the group, because the coach was confident that the boy was not physically developed enough to start training on ice. Mom did not give up her dream and did not give up trying. A year later she again led him to figure skating. Everything repeated again. However, if Ilya's mother was not so persistent, nothing would have happened.

Hafanana in the kindergarten

When Tatyana Ustinova invited him to her author program "My Hero", Ilya Averbukh told me that my mother, despite the fact that she was very fond of her work (microbiologist), left her and went to a kindergarten at the rate of a musician. She consciously took such a step so that the son was always under supervision. Here are just the main roles on matinees bypassed his side, as a rule, Ilya was decorated with bunnies or snowflakes.

In the kindergarten, he did not want to sleep, prevented his classmates from calming down after dinner. To at least a little to reassure the little ones and try to keep discipline, my mother took him to a separate room where Ilya Averbukh had not been given long. "Private room" - so he called the assembly hall, where he broke off while the rest of the children slept. Under the song "Hafanan" little Ilyusha arranged a real performance.

First coach

So, Julia Markovna still found a trainer who was able to consider that her son is a promising apt pupil. Such a coach was Jeanne Gromova, who immediately took the boy very seriously. Mom took Ilya twice to classes every day. It was decided that Averbukh would become a solitary figure skater of solo skating. But life put everything in its place: when he turned 13, in one month Ilya stretched to 12 centimeters. Now the young skater had problems with coordination of movements (however, they were temporary) - his jumps were not so ideal. In this regard, Ilya Averbukh Was transferred to a pair dance. This option was more interesting for him, and he remained forever here.

Fiddler, football player or skater?

So, despite the fact that my grandmother and grandfather hoped that their beloved granddaughter would learn to play the violin, the boy became a figure skater. Ilya Averbukh, whose biography is studied to the minutia by his fans, recalls that with great pleasure he would play football. He likes to work hard, get a quick enough result, the result of his efforts, but in figure skating it does not work that way, you have to work very long. He did not like to attend all the necessary training. He, frankly bored, monotonously and pedantically practiced the same movements.

Everything changed after the first world championship, held for juniors. Ilya rode in a pair with Marina Anisina. Young people became winners. From that moment Ilya realized that figure skating would always remain in his life.

Anisina and Lobacheva

After Zhanna Gromova Averbukh's coach became a famous figure skater and coach Natalia Linichuk. In 1989, he became one of the members of the Russian national team. Over the next three years, his biography in the sport was decorated with a victory: skating with Marina Anisina in the junior league, figure skater Ilya Averbukh became a two-time world champion. Everyone was sure that the Anisin-Averbukh couple will have a great future. But why did such a pair of couples fall apart? There were frequent quarrels between the partners, and Natalia Linichuk decided to part ways.

When it was 1992, Ilya Averbukh, whose photo often appears on the pages of various publications, became a couple with the figure skater Irina Lobacheva (and he had known her since childhood). And now he looked at her completely differently. Three years later they moved to the United States of America. There they lived and trained before the Olympics, which took place in 2000.

Hello, Salt Lake City!

And here came the significant and important for them both of 2002 year. In February, the tandem of Averbukh-Lobachev performed very successfully: skaters won silver at the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City (USA). Another season the pair stayed in amateur sports. They won the European Championship, where they won a significant victory, taking the prize-winning silver spot at the World Championships. Returning home, to Russia was realized in 2004. The amateur career was over. They decided not to speak any more.

"Ice Symphony" and others

Even leaving professional sports, the world-famous figure skater Ilya Averbukh, whose personal life constantly represents an unquenchable interest for all his admirers, did not allow for a moment the thought that he would say goodbye to figure skating forever. The year 2004 has come. Ilya finally was able to breathe life into his long-standing dream - the show "Ice Symphony", because it is a wonderful theatrical ice show. And celebrities of the world figure skating, to which the world, European and Olympic champions are the heroes of this project.

So, the dream came true. But Averbukh now can not be stopped. Two years later, in 2006, "First Channel" for the first time presented to the audience a completely new show "Stars on Ice". Along with figure skaters stars of a platform, cinema, sportsmen participated. The producer and coach was Ilya Averbukh.

The project had a grandiose success, that's why the clones were created in time: "Ice Age", "Ice and Fire", "Bolero" ... To be enjoyed not only by residents of the capital, at the end of each season in many cities of Russia (also not Was ignored near and far abroad) with great success were touring tours of project participants. The unchanging leader was, of course, Averbukh.

The skater does not deprive his attention and younger audience: in 2014, before the winter holidays, premieres of his ice productions timed to the holidays, "Mama" and "Kid and Carlson" were held.

And Ilya Averbukh's trace remained in the cinema: 2004 - debut in the birthplace of journalist Ilya Gavrilov in the drama "The Time of the Cruel", 2008 - Ilya is the producer of the series "Hot Ice", along with the actors and well-known figure skaters (Alexey Tikhonov, Povilas Vanagas , Irina Slutskaya and others).

To date, the team of Ilya Averbukh has begun rehearsing the "New Bremen Musicians" - another theatrical performance on ice, the release of which "will take place" from December 26, 2015 to January 8, 2016. All, of course, is kept secret. But it was promised that the audience would be subdued and delighted with pyrotechnic effects, circus tricks, original scenery. The central roles are given to the "golden" pair of modern ice: Princess - Tatiana Navka, Troubadour - Roman Kostomarov.

A familiar stranger

Back in 1995, apart from a remarkable pair of figure skaters, the birth of the family took place: Ilya Averbukh and Irina Lobacheva became husband and wife. Nine years later, in 2004, already in America, they had a son, Martin. It seems that everything turned out very well, but after living 12 years together, they in 2007 adopted a mutual decision on parting.

Ilya Averbukh, whose personal life is always under the gaze of the television cameras, fully provides the ex-wife and son. The division of the jointly acquired property did not happen: Averbukh left everything to Irina and Martin, who at that time was only three and a half years old. Now the former spouses keep a warm and friendly relationship, and their son can communicate with the pope quite often.