1997 Russian Figure Skating Championships
# 1997 Russian Figure Skating Championships

The 1997 Russian Figure Skating Championships (Russian: Чемпионат России по фигурному катанию на коньках 1997) took place in Moscow from December 26 to 29, 1996. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The results were one of the criteria used to pick the Russian teams to the 1997 World Championships and the 1997 European Championships.

## Senior results

### Men

| Rank | Name | TFP |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Ilia Kulik | 2.0 |
| 2 | Alexei Urmanov | 2.5 |
| 3 | Alexei Yagudin | 4.5 |
| 4 | Evgeni Plushenko | 6.0 |
| 5 | Ruslan Novoseltsev | 8.5 |
| 6 | Oleg Tataurov | 9.0 |
| 7 | Alexander Abt | 9.5 |
| 8 | Sergei Rylov | 13.5 |
| 9 | Igor Siniutin | 14.0 |
| 10 | Roman Serov | 15.0 |
| 11 | Pavel Kersha | 16.5 |
| 12 | Ilia Klimkin | 18.0 |
| 13 | Sergei Kitov | 18.0 |
| 14 | Valeri Medvedev | 20.5 |
| 15 | Denis Borovikh | 22.5 |

### Ladies

| Rank | Name | TFP | SP |
| - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Maria Butyrskaya | 2.0 | |
| 2 | Olga Markova | 3.5 | |
| 3 | Irina Slutskaya | 4.5 | |
| 4 | Julia Soldatova | 5.0 | |
| 5 | Elena Sokolova | 7.5 | |
| 6 | Elena Pingacheva | 9.5 | |
| 7 | Viktoria Volchkova | 11.0 | |
| 8 | Irina Nikolaeva | 13.0 | |
| 9 | Daria Timoshenko | 13.0 | |
| 10 | Svetlana Bukareva | 13.5 | |
| 11 | Natalia Ryzhova | 17.5 | |
| 12 | Ekaterina Vasina | 17.5 | |
| 13 | Irina Derbina | 19.0 | |
| 14 | Kristina Oblasova | 22.5 | |
| 15 | Irina Tkachuk | 23.0 | |
| 16 | Elena Ivanova | 23.5 | |
| 17 | Julia Razeronova | 26.5 | |
| WD | Anna Zorina | | 14 |
| WD | Julia Lebedeva | | 18 |

### Pairs

| Rank | Name | TFP | SP | FS |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Marina Eltsova / Andrei Bushkov | 1.5 | 1 | 1 |
| 2 | Elena Berezhnaya / Anton Sikharulidze | 3.0 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | Evgenia Shishkova / Vadim Naumov | 4.5 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Oksana Kazakova / Artur Dmitriev | 6.0 | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | Maria Petrova / Temuraz Pulin | 7.5 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 | Tatiana Totmianina / Maxim Marinin | 9.5 | 7 | 6 |
| 7 | Viktoria Maksiuta / Vladislav Zhovnirski | 10.0 | 6 | 7 |
| 8 | Elena Bogospasaeva / Oleg Ponomarenko | 12.0 | 8 | 8 |
| 9 | Alena Maltseva / Oleg Popov | 12.5 | 9 | 9 |
| 10 | Viktoria Shliakhova / Grigori Petrovski | 15.5 | 11 | 10 |
| WD | Olga Semkina / Andrei Chuvilaev | | 10 | |

### Ice dancing

| Rank | Name | TFP |
| - | - | - |
| 1 | Irina Lobacheva / Ilia Averbukh | 2.0 |
| 2 | Olga Sharutenko / Dmitri Naumkin | 4.0 |
| 3 | Ekaterina Davydova / Roman Kostomarov | 6.0 |
| 4 | Anastasia Grebenkina / Vazgen Azroyan | 8.2 |
| 5 | Alisa Sashina / Georgi Kazachinski | 9.8 |
| 6 | Tatiana Evdokimova / Sergei Toporov | 12.0 |
| 7 | Julia Bokova / Dmitri Urvantsev | 14.0 |
| 8 | Ekaterina Baeva / Denis Sintsov | 16.0 |
