Boys: Generation NEXT
Opening the championship of Russia competition were the young men. As is known, in the short program, quadruples they do not perform, which is why the results, as a rule, are fairly even, although sometimes unexpected. After all, triple jumps are now being mastered by all self-respecting juniors, and then in this case comes a technical assessment, which is higher with more careful and cleaner elements. Therefore in the short program the first place was taken by Danielyan, to whom only a month ago, on December 17, turned 14 years old. Figure skater, who grew up in Volgograd and moved two years ago to Moscow to train in CSKA, debuted here in the leaders, performing the best technical set of triple axel, combination of triple lutz, triple toe loop and triple flip. By the way, the promising sportsman was supposed to perform at the championship of Russia a year ago, but injury prevented him. And now everything has turned out, and Danielian in the short program was ahead of the favorite, which at this start was considered Alexei Erokhov.
However, in the free program everything fell into place. Erokhov, student of Eteri Tutberidze, behind whom has the experience of performances at the adult championships of Russia, owns quadruple jumps-a toe loop and a salchow. In Saransk, in the free program, Alexei twice jumped the quad toe loop and this was enough for a sure victory. Skating a clean free program with two quadruple jumps was Roman Savosin, which allowed the pupil of Alexei Chetverukhin to rise from the intermediate seventh place, which he occupied because of an error in the short program, to second place. Third was Danielyan, who, because of the lack of a quadruple jump, was not able to compete with the more experienced and senior rivals for the victory, but proved himself worthy. I remember several other athletes with very bright and interesting programs - Egor Murashov, Egor Rukhin, Daniel Samsonov.
The main conclusion following the results of competitions in men's single skating is this: in the most problematic Russian figure skating there are juniors who are ready to leave and go to the adult arena and compete now, but there is a completely new generation of figure skaters that has absorbed modern trends. At them, in programs jumps as if continuation of others elements, they do not enter on them, as on launch of the astronaut. Of course, the forecasts are a thankless task, but it is with the advent of the next generation that we look forward to the coming years with special impatience and hope that our men will again fight for the gold of the major world tournaments.
He's caught a lot people's attention which is great!!! The more the merrier. 
). For reference, Nikita choreographed both of Artur's programs this past season :agree:
It was nice to see him participate. Actually he seems to participate in a few skating camps with Selitskaya from the year prior. This Instagram account has a few videos of Artur from the previous season (2016) demonstrating jumps 
