Your top 3 all time Russian single ladies and men?

[combo]

Yagudin
Kulik
Kolyada

Gubanova
Pogorilaya
Tsurskaya
(s/out to Lipnitskaya and Trusova though, I love them too)

 

[iluvtodd]

Ilia Kulik
Alexander Abt
Sergei Voronov

I do like Mikhail Kolyada, too!

Irina Slutskaya
Elizaveta T. (Tuk-Tuk)
Katia Gordeeva as a pairs skater & as a single professional skater

I am really looking forward to seeing how Evgenia M. does this season in her new coaching environment!

 

[Imagine]

Too hard to pick just three.

01. Yulia Lipnitskaya
02. Alena Kostornaia
03. Evgenia Medvedeva
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04. Anna Pogorilaya
05. Adelina Sotnikova
06. Alexandra Trusova

 

[LadyB]

There are too many I like on different levels

Alexei Yagudin (no debate for me)
Sergei Voronov (true legend)
Vladimir Kovalev ('cause the 12-year old me fancied him, even though he finished ahead of Toller)

Zhenya Medvedeva
She's always fascinated me most

At the going rate, I wish Liza Tuktik gets her fair share of glory. I used to love Lena Radionova, but best skater of all times...
I think the youngsters are only starting out, a title 'of all times' remains to be seen, but they might be well up there.

 

[leoleo]

1. Lipnitskaya
2. Kostornaia
3. Zagitova/Gubanova

i know that half of them are juniors but those are my faves! Yulia stays my all time favorite Russian lady ever! she was just something else!

1. Yagudin
2 Kolyada for men!

 

[Fluture]

I‘m just doing the ladies:

1. Evgenia Medvedeva
2. Yulia Lipnitskaya
3. Alina Zagitova

Zhenya is my favourite skater, she moves me in a way no one has yet managed to do. Yulia came close to doing it and that‘s why she‘s second. Alina is just somebody who‘s personality I really like. She‘s humble and just so sweet, really admirable. Her skating excites me but it doesn‘t touch me emotionally as much as Zhenya‘s and Yulia‘s do so she‘s only third on this list.

I wanted to include Alena Kostornaya as well since I really adore her but she‘s only a junior so she has to wait her turn to get on an all-time favourite list.

 

[andromache]

Men
Yagudin
Kolyada
Urmanov....I'll admit it's more because of his kind of sad backstory rather than his skating. I don't remember the specifics but I do remember having a lot of sympathy for him in one of Christine Brennan's books.

Ladies (going with seniors only!!!)
Slutskaya
Medvedeva
Pogorilaya

 

[jenaj]

Men:
Yagudin

Ladies:
Slutskaya
Lipnitskaya

 

[TheBallerina]

Men
1. Evgeni Plushenko
2. Alexei Yagudin
3. Dmitri Aliev

Honorable mentions: Ilia Kulik, Sergei Voronov, Petr Gumennik

Ladies As a big fan of the Russian ladies, this is soooo hard!
1. Alina Zagitova, the queen of my FS fan heart :luv17:
2. Alena Kostornaia
3. Anna Shcherbakova
Honorable mentions: Kamila Valieva, Alexandra Trusova, Anastasia Tarakanova, Irina Slutskaya, Yulia Lipnitskaya, Elena Sokolova, Maria Butyrskaya, Anastasia Gubanova, Polina Tsurkaya

 

[Reth]

1. Lipnitskaya
2. Kostornaia
3. Medvedeva

1. Yagudin

 

[ioanna]

Anna Pogorilaya
Alena Kostornaia
Anna Shcherbakova

Alexei Yagudin
Mikhail Kolyada
Dmitri Aliev

 

[ancientpeas]

This is so hard..

Men:

1. Plushenko (for sheer charisma alone)
2. Yagudin
3. I'm going to say Fadeev here not so much because he's a favourite but he was the first successful Russian man so kudos to him. 1st Russian world champion in men's singles for those of you who don't remember Alexander.
(I also consider myself a fan of Kolyada and Aliev)

Ladies:
1. Irina S.
2. Evgenia M.
3. Anna P.

(not going to pick juniors to limit my own choices)

 

[chopinskate]

This is so hard..

 

[fure]

1. King Plushenko
2. Sasha Abt
3. Yagudin

1. Tuktamysheva
2. Medvedeva
3. Sotnikova

 

[mrrice]

I've been answering this question for years.....You all know the answer.


Plushy and Maria Butyrskaya. That will never change.

 

[blue_idealist]

Men: Voronov, Menshov, Yagudin
Ladies: Leonova, Tuktamysheva, Slutskaya

 

[Ulrica]

Men;

Yagudin

Women;

Lipniskaya
Slutskaya
Medvedeva/Zagitova

Honorable mention to Kostornaia and Tuktamysheva.

 

[QueenOfTheRoad]

1. Plushenko
2. Kulik
3. Kolyada
(4. Abt, i hope he got his life together in the last years)

1. Slutskaya
2. Medvedeva
3. Volchkova

 

[silverfoxes]

Men:

Dmitri Aliev
Evgeni Plushenko
Sergei Voronov

honorable mentions - Alexander Abt, Adian Pitkeev, Konstantin Menshov. I love a few juniors too, but we'll have to see who survives...

Ladies:

Evgenia Medvedeva
Anna Pogorilaya
Alexandra Trusova (I feel like the junior ladies are a little different from junior men since they're already doing much harder content - she's already a legend!)

 

[macy]

1. Alena Kostornaia
2. Evgenia Medvedeva
3. Yulia Lipnitskaia