Pyotr Petrovich Orlov (; 11 July 1912 1989) was a Soviet figure skater and pair skating coach. Виктор Кудрявцев: тренер должен быть фанатом фигурного катания He was a three-time champion of the USSR (1946, 1947, 1951) and bronze medalist of the USSR championship (1938) in pair skatingPyotr Orlov at the sport-strana.ru and Master of Sports of the USSR in (1938) and Honored Coach of the USSR (1958).
Biography Pyotr was born on 11 July 1912 in the village of Kurganovo, Tver Governorate. He was involved in figure skating as part of the Dynamo Sports Club in Leningrad. In 1938 he graduated from the Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health.
Figure skating classes continued until 1946. After World War II, Orlov was awarded the Order of the Patriotic War second class (1985). In the post-war years, he sought out Leningrad skaters, and resumed the work of the figure skating section.
He was judge of the Republican category of the RSFSR figure skating (1958). In 1960 he moved from Leningrad to Kiev to work as a coach of the Ukrainian artistic and sports ensemble.
Among his famous wards are Igor Moskvin, Maya Belenkaya,«И жизнь твоя в учениках продлится»... Майя Беленькая // sports.ru Lyudmila Belousova, Oleg Protopopov, Nina Zhuk, Stanislav Zhuk,Как травили великого тренера фигуристов Станислава Жука // Express Gazeta and Nina Mozer.Профиль на сайте Василия Соловьёва // solovieff.ru
He died in 1989. He is buried in Kiev.
References
External links Pyotr Orlov at Fskate.ru