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She was born on December 28, 1968 in Shchuchinsk, Kokchetav region (Kazakh SSR). Dad is a very athletic man: he worked as a taxi driver and was engaged in figure skating on ice, was the vice-champion of Kazakhstan in this discipline. He exercises and lifts weights every morning. Subsequently, the "steering wheel" of the taxi driver was replaced by the position of the gamekeeper of the Rybokhotnadzor. Mom has worked as a simple worker all her life. In Soviet times, he worked as an accountant at the Industrial Trade base, and then as a gas station operator. I have a wonderful sister Larisa and a brother Oleg. My family always helps and supports me! I love them very much!!!

I followed in my father's footsteps. She was fond of mopeds, motorcycles, and played sports. She defended the honor of the school and the class in all sports events and "Lightning strikes". She ran well for short distances, practiced gymnastics for six years, and fulfilled the standard of a candidate for master of sports. She was invited to the Tselinograd school of the Olympic Reserve, but refused due to the fact that the coach, Larisa Alexandrovna Ruppel-Yeremushkina, was not invited with her.

I adore Larisa Alexandrovna and I am very grateful to her for her big heart, for her love for her students, for the humanity she put into her athletes!!! A lot in the formation of a child depends on the first coach. She instilled in her girls kindness, love for their work, for team members and rivals, willpower and hard work, the desire to win and many other positive qualities...

After the eighth grade, she entered the pharmaceutical department of the Tselinograd Medical School. The windows of the dormitory overlooked the airfield - I watched glider flights almost every day ("they didn't impress me"), but the parachutists were interested in jumping. I wanted to jump with a parachute. I encouraged the girls to do this, and a group of seven or eight people went to the local aero club, but only I managed to pass the medical examination. I didn't go to study alone. Classes are late, it's a long way to go, a women's dormitory, difficult relationships with teachers...

I graduated from medical school. According to the distribution, they were sent to Kurgan, to the pharmacy at the railway hospital. A month later, I found a local flying club... I was walking down the corridor, and then some instructor intercepted and began to strenuously persuade me not to go to the parachute section, but to "sign up for airplanes." Well, I signed up. I've been studying theory for several months- I've never seen an airplane. And when they finally put me on a plane for the first time and "took me for a ride", according to the assignment there was a flight in formation as part of a flight of three planes, then this calm horizontal flight did not impress me.

Having hardly quit the pharmacy (in those days, it was very strict with working out the distribution after graduation), I was going to go home to Shchuchinsk, but then Yevgeny Borovinsky came running (then we flew with him in the same group) and said: "Rukavishnikov asked not to leave for good until you take a ride on aerobatics." Rukavishnikov Alexander Vasilyevich was a coach at the Kurgan Aviation Sports Club (ASK). They said about him: "He will teach a monkey to fly..." Alexander Vasilyevich immediately caught the athletic character of the young girl, added the vestibular apparatus and physical abilities inherited from gymnastics, and really did not want to lose, in his words: "a promising athlete." I am very grateful to him for the persistence with which he urged me to stay!!!

In general, I stayed at home and returned, I thought that for a few days I would respect the coach.

And then Rukavishnikov agreed with the head of the ASK that Leonid Arkadyevich Solodovnikov (he later became my coach) arrange a "real run", and not as they usually do for beginners, so as not to scare them ahead of time.

It was the most incredible flight, I have never experienced such sensations in my life: the amazing steepness, the sky and the earth rotate around the plane at breakneck speed, and even if my head is in bumps from hitting the cockpit lamp - in short, I liked it terribly and determined my whole future fate...

I was immediately registered as a communications electrician at the ASK - and I started flying. Mom, of course, was horrified: "If you stay in this flying club, you're not my daughter anymore!" But I know my mother, and indeed, her anger was only enough for five days. Then she often said: "Even if you go into space, I wouldn't be surprised."

It just so happened that I did not become an athlete A.V. Rukavishnikov, but he helped and supported me in many ways... I really appreciate everything he has done for me.

The first instructor was Nikolai Golubtsov. He was an instructor for the first year, but he was a very experienced athlete and a great person.

Since the second year, I began flying with the wonderful navigator-instructor-trainer Leonid Solodovnikov. This is a man who gave me EVERYTHING in aeronautical sports: aerobatics, handwriting, flying character, charm, the power and beauty of flight, the desire to win... We went through a lot with him: tears and resentments in training, the bitterness of defeats and the joy of winning competitions, a short family life... I grieve that his life ended so early... He is my "guardian angel"!

Since 1991, she has been a member of the Russian national aerobatics team.

To the name of L.A.Solodovnikov, I want to add a few more names of coaches who subsequently helped and continue to help me train and prepare for competitions: K.G.Nazhmudinov, A.G.Shpigovsky, V.N.Chmal.

In 1993, she competed at the first international competitions - the European Championship. Then, competitions began to take place more often - several times a year, and so for more than 20 years.

Since 2000, I have been working at the Sukhoi company as a pilot instructor of the 1st class.

I live in Moscow. I have a wonderful husband, Vladimir, and wonderful children - sonny Peresvet and daughter Yesenia. They are my "GUARDIAN ANGELS" on earth! They always pray for me! And all my victories are for them!!!