Tusi se faʻaauau mo lenei palakalafa - Irina Moiseeva ma Andrei Minenkov na feiloaʻi i le rink ina ua ono o la tausaga ma amata ona faaseʻe faaseʻe faʻatasi i le 1967. Na latou maua lo latou manuia i le vaitau 1974-1975. Na latou tulaga tolu i le Soviet Championships, i tua atu o Lyudmila Pakhomova/Aleksandr Gorshkov ma Natalia Linichuk/Gennadi Karponosov, ma tuu i le pito i tua o le tulaga i le 1975 European Championships
. Peitaʻi, na latou faʻaauau pea ona puʻeina le latou ulutala muamua a le Lalolagi i le World Championships, i le toesea o Pakhomova / Gorshkov ae o loʻo agaʻi i luma o ni nai 'au na maualuga atu nai lo latou i le amataga o le vaitau, e aofia ai Linichuk / Karpanosov.