The 2012 Russian Figure Skating Championships () was held from December 25–29, 2011 in Saransk. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.
The results were among the criteria used to select the teams sent to the 2012 World Championships, the 2012 European Championships, and the 2012 World Junior Championships.
Competitions Date Event Type Location 24–28 December 2011 2012 Russian Championships Final Saransk, Mordovia 4–7 February 2012 2012 Russian Junior Championships Final Khimki, Moscow Oblast 21–25 February 2012 2012 Russian Cup Final Final Stary Oskol, Belgorod Oblast 13–17 March 2012 2012 Russian Youth Championships – Younger Age Final Tver, Tver Oblast 28–31 March 2012 2012 Russian Youth Championships – Elder Age Final Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast
Medalists of most important competitions Senior Championships Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Evgeni Plushenko Artur Gachinski Sergei Voronov Ladies Adelina Sotnikova Yulia Lipnitskaya Alena Leonova Pairs Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov Ice dancing Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko Junior Championships Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Zhan Bush Artur Dmitriev Jr. Maxim Kovtun Ladies Yulia Lipnitskaya Polina Shelepen Elena Radionova Pairs Vasilisa Davankova / Andrei Deputat Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurdyukov Kamilla Gainetdinova / Ivan Bich Ice dancing Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin Cup Final Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Konstantin Menshov Vladislav Sezganov Gordei Gorshkov Ladies Elena Radionova Anna Shershak Maria Artemieva Pairs Katarina Gerboldt / Alexander Enbert Evgenia Tarasova / Egor Chudin Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev Ice dancing Valeria Starygina / Ivan Volobuiev Anna Polikarpova / Maxim Kirillov Evgenia Surkova / Denis Kozlov Junior men Mikhail Kolyada Alexei Genya Alexander Petrov Junior ladies Serafima Sakhanovich Evgenia Medvedeva Evgenia Gerasimova Junior pairs Anastasia Ragozina / Vladislav Perebatov Ekaterina Pribilova / Arseniy Repkin Junior ice dancing Daria Morozova / Mikhail Zhirnov Кristina Baklanova / Andrei Bagin Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko Youth Championships – Elder Age Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Andrei Lazukin Alexander Petrov Andrei Zuber Ladies Evgenia Medvedeva Alsu Kayumova Anna Pogorilaya Pairs Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin Kristina Bogdanova / Andrei Kositsin Arina Chernyavskaya / António Souza-Cordeiro Ice dancing Sofia Evdokimova / Egor Bazin Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko Anastasia Voronkova / Nikita Trushkov Youth Championships – Younger Age Discipline Gold Silver Bronze Men Alexei Genya Alexander Petrov Alexei Krasnozhon Ladies Serafima Sakhanovich Natalia Ogoreltseva Uliana Titushkina Pairs No pairs' discipline Ice dancing No Ice dancing discipline
Senior Championships Top pairs' teams Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov and Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov appealed to the president of the Russian Figure Skating Federation, Alexander Gorshkov, to release them on medical grounds from participating in the championship, which is part of the selection process for the European and World Championships. Gorshkov said the pairs had earned their berths by virtue of their strong Grand Prix results and granted their exemptions from the Russian Championships. Nikolai Morozov, the coach of Grand Prix Final bronze medalist Alena Leonova, said she had also already earned her place in the team and could have missed the event but she chose to compete.
Evgeni Plushenko placed first in the men's short program, with Artur Gachinski and Zhan Bush in second and third respectively. Plushenko won his ninth national title. Gachinski won silver and Voronov climbed from fifth after the short to take the bronze medal.
Adelina Sotnikova won the ladies' short program, Ksenia Makarova was second, and Yulia Lipnitskaya third. Sotnikova won her third national title, Lipnitskaya won silver, and Leonova took bronze. In the free skate, Lipnitskaya earned the highest TES (technical elements score), followed by 12-year-olds Radionova and Medvedeva, who were ineligible for junior international competitions.
Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov took the lead in the pairs' short program, with Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov and Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov in second and third. Bazarova / Larionov won their first national title, while Stolbova / Klimov won silver and Martiusheva / Rogonov the bronze.
Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev placed first in the short dance, with Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov and Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko in second and third respectively. Bobrova / Soloviev won their second national title, Ilinykh / Katsalapov won silver, and Riazanova / Tkachenko held on for the bronze although Pushkash / Guerreiro were third in the free dance. Riazanova was injured a couple of weeks before the event; she sustained a concussion and a broken nose when her partner accidentally elbowed her in practice.
The team to the European Championships was named on December 28, 2011. The World Championships team was announced on February 23, 2012, but only two ladies were confirmed, with the third lady (Makarova) confirmed on March 14.
Schedule Local time, UTC/GMT +04:00
Sunday, December 25 14:00–14:30 – Opening ceremony 14:45–16:15 – Short dance 16:30–18:30 – Pairs' short 18:45–21:15 – Men's short Monday, December 26 14:00–16:30 – Ladies' short 16:45–19:45 – Men's free 20:00–22:00 – Free dance Tuesday, December 27 16:00–18:25 – Pairs' free 18:40–21:30 – Ladies' free Wednesday, December 28 16:00–16:30 – Medal ceremonies 16:45–19:15 – Exhibitions
Results Men Rank Name Region Total points SP FS 1 Evgeni Plushenko Saint Petersburg 259.67 1 88.24 1 171.43 2 Artur Gachinski Saint Petersburg 249.58 2 83.52 2 166.06 3 Sergei Voronov Moscow 240.79 5 76.35 3 164.44 4 Zhan Bush Saint Petersburg / Chelyabinsk 223.30 3 81.81 6 141.49 5 Artur Dmitriev Jr. Moscow / Saint Petersburg 220.29 4 79.69 7 140.60 6 Ivan Bariev Moscow 219.87 10 69.56 4 150.31 7 Konstantin Menshov Saint Petersburg 219.28 6 74.19 5 145.09 8 Gordei Gorshkov Saint Petersburg 210.28 8 69.84 8 140.44 9 Stanislav Kovalev Moscow 203.33 11 68.10 9 135.23 10 Artem Grigoriev Moscow 201.06 7 72.90 10 128.16 11 Artem Borodulin Moscow 194.81 9 69.76 12 125.05 12 Maxim Kovtun Ekaterinburg 193.93 12 66.11 11 127.82 13 Mark Shakhmatov Moscow 178.35 17 58.20 13 120.15 14 Stanislav Samokhin Moscow 169.73 14 63.45 16 106.28 15 Feodosiy Efremenkov Moscow 166.07 16 59.57 15 106.50 16 Alexander Stepanov Saint Petersburg 165.34 18 54.73 14 110.61 17 Vladislav Sezganov Saint Petersburg 164.19 15 61.10 17 103.09 WD Ivan Tretiakov Moscow 13 64.51
Ladies Rank Name Region Total points SP FS 1 Adelina Sotnikova Moscow 193.71 1 68.65 2 125.06 2 Yulia Lipnitskaya Moscow 191.65 3 63.11 1 128.54 3 Alena Leonova Saint Petersburg 178.15 5 59.95 3 118.20 4 Ksenia Makarova Saint Petersburg 175.49 2 64.30 6 111.19 5 Elena Radionova Moscow 174.81 6 59.10 5 115.71 6 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva Saint Petersburg 174.40 7 58.32 4 116.08 7 Polina Korobeynikova Moscow 165.57 8 57.64 9 107.93 8 Evgenia Medvedeva Moscow 161.74 11 53.21 8 108.53 9 Sofia Biryukova Moscow 156.11 4 60.95 14 95.16 10 Polina Shelepen Moscow 154.78 17 45.44 7 109.34 11 Anna Shershak Moscow 152.11 9 55.29 13 96.82 12 Evgenia Gerasimova Saint Petersburg 152.02 13 52.58 10 99.44 13 Maria Artemieva Saint Petersburg 148.44 10 55.25 15 93.19 14 Polina Agafonova Saint Petersburg 148.14 15 50.30 11 97.84 15 Alexandra Deeva Moscow 144.50 12 53.21 16 91.29 16 Sofia Mishina Moscow 143.74 16 46.55 13 97.19 17 Anna Ovcharova Moscow 134.67 14 52.51 18 82.16 18 Maria Stavitskaia Saint Petersburg 130.72 18 43.10 17 87.62
Pairs Rank Name Region Total points SP FS 1 Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov Saransk 194.86 1 68.83 1 126.03 2 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov Saint Petersburg 182.13 3 58.46 2 123.67 3 Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov Moscow 179.94 2 60.25 3 119.69 4 Katarina Gerboldt / Alexander Enbert Saint Petersburg 174.39 5 56.67 4 117.72 5 Vasilisa Davankova / Andrei Deputat Moscow 168.79 7 53.32 5 115.47 6 Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze Moscow 167.74 4 57.00 6 110.74 7 Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurdyukov Moscow 157.46 8 51.25 7 106.21 8 Tatiana Novik / Andrei Novoselov Moscow 155.96 6 54.09 8 101.87 9 Tatiana Tudvaseva / Sergei Lisiev Saransk 142.78 9 49.00 9 93.78 10 Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev Perm 135.98 11 42.90 10 93.08 11 Oksana Nagalatiy / Konstantin Bezmaternikh Saint Petersburg 122.98 10 45.34 12 77.64 12 Jana Volkova / Alexei Petryanin Perm 114.34 12 33.08 11 81.26
Ice dancing Rank Name Region Total points SD FD 1 Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Moscow 171.47 1 70.23 1 101.24 2 Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov Moscow 161.94 2 66.94 2 95.00 3 Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko Moscow Oblast 154.65 3 65.22 4 89.43 4 Ekaterina Pushkash / Jonathan Guerreiro Moscow 150.57 4 60.25 3 90.32 5 Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin Moscow 146.28 5 58.27 5 88.01 6 Valeria Starygina / Ivan Volobuiev Moscow 128.43 6 54.67 7 73.76 7 Kristina Gorshkova / Vitali Butikov Moscow 120.88 7 48.68 8 72.20 8 Anna Polikarpova / Maxim Kirillov Tolyatti 119.57 9 45.64 6 73.93 9 Anastasia Kabanova / Nikolai Babin Moscow Oblast 114.85 8 46.24 9 68.61 10 Evgenia Shakhtarina / Denis Kozlov Kirov 92.53 10 35.69 10 56.84
Junior Championships The 2012 Russian Junior Championships () were held in Novogorsk, Khimki from 5–7 February 2012.
Zhan Bush won the junior men's title. He and Artur Dmitriev Jr. received Russia's two berths to the World Junior Championships.
Adelina Sotnikova and Elizaveta Tuktamysheva were released from competing at the Russian Junior Championships and automatically assigned to the World Junior Championships. Yulia Lipnitskaya won the ladies' junior title, followed by Polina Shelepen and Elena Radionova. Lipnitskaya received the last available spot to Junior Worlds.
Vasilisa Davankova / Andrei Deputat won the junior pairs' title while Ekaterina Petaikina / Maxim Kurdyukov were the silver medalists and Kamilla Gainetdinova / Ivan Bich the bronze medalists. Deputat was released by Ukraine to skate for Russia at the World Junior Championships, along with the other medalists. In the free skate, Gainetdinova/Bich successfully landed side-by-side (sbs) triple lutzes, receiving 6.70 points for the element, and also included a sbs triple loop, double axel sequence, receiving 5.99 points due to some negative grades of execution.
Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin won gold while Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin took silver and Valeria Zenkova / Valerie Sinitsin the bronze. Along with Sinitsina / Zhiganshin and Stepanova / Bukin, Anna Yanovskaia / Sergey Mozgov were selected for Junior Worlds due to their Junior Grand Prix results.
Schedule Sunday, February 5 14:00–16:30 – Men's short 17:35–19:30 – Pairs' short 19:45–21:15 – Short dance Monday, February 6 14:00–16:30 – Ladies' short 16:45-19:30 – Men's free 19:45-21:30 – Free dance Tuesday, February 7 13:00–15:15 – Pairs' free 15:30–18:00 – Ladies' free
Results Men