Tatyana Tolmachova

{{Short description|Soviet figure skater}}

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Tatyana Aleksandrovna Tolmachova ({{langx|ru|Татьяна Александровна Толмачёва}}, née Granatkina, Гранаткина; 21 January 1907 – 21 October 1998) was a Russian figure skater, figure skating coach and one of the founders of Soviet figure skating school, Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. She started skating as single skater and represented the club of Dynamo in the 1930s. Then she moved to pair skating with her husband Alexander Tolmachev.

Tolmachova was the leading ladies' coach.{{cite web|url=http://www.sport-express.ru/newspaper/2009-08-25/8_1/|title=Igor Moskvin: I have never thought that my wife and I are rivals.|last=Vaytsekhovskaya|first=Elena|date=25 August 2009|publisher=Sport Express|language=Russian|accessdate=4 July 2010}} She worked in Moscow. Her husband Alexander Tolmachev headed the Moscow department of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia.

Since 1946, Tolmachova worked as a figure skating coach at the Young Pioneers Stadium school in Moscow, established with her help. Among her pupils were Vladimir Kovalev, Elena Tchaikovskaia, Lyudmila Pakhomova, Galina Kuhar, Alexander Vedenin, Tatiana Nemtsova, Elena Sheglova, Sergei Chetverukhin, Valentin Piseev.{{cite web|url=http://www.smsport.ru/expo/katalog/f-kat/tolmacheva/|title=Tolmacheva (Granatkina) Tatiana|publisher=Museum of Sport|language=Russian|accessdate=9 July 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://www.vsesmi.ru/news/454528/|title=100 years have passed since the birth of the famous sports coach Tatiana Tolmacheva|date=27 January 2001|publisher=VseSMI.ru|language=Russian|accessdate=9 July 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://ria.ru/spravka/20100325/216307744.html|script-title=ru:Валентин Николаевич Писеев. Биографическая справка|date=25 March 2010|publisher=RIA Novosti|language=Russian|accessdate=25 June 2014}}

Her brother Valentin Granatkin was a football, ice hockey and bandy player.