Adeline missed the Russian Figure Skating Championships, which took place at the end of December in Chelyabinsk. This championship is a selection for the European Championship. But the 20-year-old champion has a seasoned character, so she will return to the sport in the new season. Ilya Averbukh says that Sotnikova is already preparing for the Olympic season, notes her high level of skating and new skills - in “Ice Age” the single skater learned to skate in pairs.

— Adeline, congratulations! You celebrated your victory with your colleagues in the “” project. Who are you celebrating the New Year with?

— Traditionally, at home in Moscow. With my parents and sister. And then I’ll meet and celebrate with friends. I won’t be able to rest during the New Year holidays - I’m skating in the ice show “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King” as Queen Myshilda. Ilya Averbukh invited me, and I agreed, because as a child it was one of my favorite cartoons.

— It was New Year before the Olympics. On the night of January 1, 2014, a month and a half before the Olympic Games, I made a wish - to successfully perform in Sochi. I remember how worried and hopeful.

— Apparently, you know how to correctly formulate desires. What are your dreams for 2017?

— I plan to return to big sport. I want there to be no health problems and I would be able to fully devote myself to training. Well, as for the personal... I dream of meeting a person who will take a permanent place in my heart.

Adelina’s mother Olga Dmitrievna took her daughter to the figure skating section when she was 4 years old. Photo: instagram.com

- What kind of man can be next to Adelina Sotnikova? Must be an athlete?

— My boyfriend and I are not from the world of sports. He did not understand the specifics of my life, so he constantly lacked attention. This became a problem and we broke up. So I came to the conclusion that the ideal option for me is an athlete guy. When people are engaged in one area and understand its specifics, misunderstandings are eliminated. We will both know how important it is to constantly go towards the goal and not break the routine. This makes it easier to support each other.

— After the Olympics, you talked about your style icon, Angelina Jolie. So much has happened in her life in just a couple of years. Are you disappointed in your idol?

“I still love Jolie.” Both as an actress - I became her fan after watching the film "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" - and as a person. Anything can happen in family life. Of course, it’s not easy for Angelina - after all, they have six children. But in public she behaves and presents herself with dignity and correctly. That is a necessity, since she had the operation according to indications to avoid the risk of cancer. There is nothing to condemn her for. I dream of meeting her and talking, among other things, about helping children, because the actress does a lot of charity work.

— You also try to help sick children.

— I always try to support, help, and never refuse to take part in charitable projects. I, like no one else, understand that a child strives to arrange his life - despite the fact that God deprived him of health. Each of us can help. I was given to my dear blood for such help (Masha, . - Ed.). I am sure that every person is also given from above to help someone. One day Tatyana Anatolyevna Tarasova told Chulpan Khamatova that my Masha needed treatment that our family could not pay for. And the Gift of Life foundation allocated funds for an expensive operation in Germany for my sister. Now I am happy to repay my debts. This is the cycle of good in nature.

— You said that you are very close to Masha. After all, your sister is practically your age - only two years younger.

- Yes, we like to spend time together - walking, watching movies, chatting. We simply cannot live without each other. I always look forward to a day off to spend with Masha.

— Did Masha root for you at Ice Age?

- Certainly! My sister and parents are always worried.

I had a not very successful experience in a relationship with a guy not from the world of sports

— For the first time you danced with a partner two years ago on the television project “Dancing with the Stars.” Now we're paired up on skates and... Was it difficult?

— It is safer to perform complex dance elements on the floor. But on the ice I feel more confident. But my partner, who had never skated professionally in his life... Sasha Sokolovsky from the first seconds of our meeting, and then, it should be noted, he was still bad at skating, went out onto the ice and began to do something that everyone was in shock. Sasha accelerated and tried to perform complex elements without preparation. Then he started doing lifts and lifting me up. At first it was very scary: I squealed and squealed, saying: “I won’t, I’m afraid.” But I overcame my fear. First, we trained each complex element a million times on the floor, and only then transferred it to the ice. Over time, I became confident in Sasha - that he would not drop me. I quickly realized that I was lucky with my partner, because his determination and desire to learn how to ride were just off the charts. Now we can say that Sokolovsky has passed the school of figure skating. We became very good friends. “Ice Age” gave me a reliable friend who, I am sure, will always support me. I acquired another “my” person.

- Adeline, a year ago you... Is your business growing during a crisis?

- Yes, everything is fine. People are coming to us, thank God. They even expanded a little. If before I went to my salon for a manicure, pedicure and to correct the shape of my eyebrows, now I can get a massage and cosmetic procedures. My mother controls the work of our family business. She is the director, and I am the face of the salon. But I don’t stand on the sidelines, I come up with a festive design, and plan to do competitions with prizes for the New Year to attract people and create a festive mood.

— After the Olympics, were you planning to “cope with modesty”? Managed?

- Yes, because a lot of time has passed. I realized that now not a single action of mine will go unnoticed. I have adapted, learned to see provocative situations and try to avoid them.

— Have you learned to cope with everyday life and cook? Or are you visiting your parents for dinner?

— I have a difficult training schedule, so now I don’t see my family as often as I would like. But as soon as I have a free evening, I rush to my parents. And I know how to cook. Of course, I won’t pass the chef exam. But I can feed myself and my guests.

Private bussiness

Adelina Sotnikova was born on July 1, 1996 in Moscow. She was called a figure skating prodigy: at the age of 12 she won the Russian championship, at the age of 13 she performed the most difficult cascades. The first Olympic champion in women's single skating in Soviet and Russian history. Adelina Sotnikova won a gold medal at the 2014 Olympics in Sochi.

Alexander Sokolovsky: “I’m an extreme sportsman with my parents”

Immediately after the end of the filming of “Ice Age,” TV Program magazine once again met with Adeline, and at the same time with her partner, actor Alexander Sokolovsky.

Alexander:- Yes, we won the project! It seems to me that I still don’t understand how we were able to win this competition. Very strong couples. And we are essentially both beginners. Adeline has never skated in pairs. I have nothing to do with figure skating at all. Plus, we had very little time to prepare: we paired up when everyone had already been training for a long time. And it was a lot of stress. There are a lot of emotions right now. Figure skating is a very difficult sport. I now bow to skaters.

Adeline:“I will also remember all this turmoil, traveling, and that we finally managed to cope with everything.”

— Now, Alexander, will figure skating be a constant hobby for you, or is there a thought: “Never again!”?

Adeline:- Yes, I also ask Sasha all the time: won’t he hang up his skates on a nail? (Laughs.)

Alexander:— No, of course, figure skating is now a big part of my life. I even watched the Grand Prix stages that took place in the fall.

Adeline:“He comes to training and says, this one fell, and that one skated like that... I am glad that now we can discuss figure skating in the same language.

Alexander:— Thanks to the show, we became very good friends. I can’t imagine myself without communicating with Adeline. And if I were invited to an ice project again, I would say that I would only skate with Sotnikova.

— Who congratulated you first?

Adeline:- Parents. They were very worried about me.

Alexander:- Parents. Knowing that I had no boundaries, barriers, or fears, they were very nervous. I'm an extreme guy with them. Now, after the project, I’ll go snowboarding, then I’ll fly to Southeast Asia to skysurf. But figure skating is an extreme sport, especially when you have an Olympic champion in your arms. By the way, Adeline said that she dreams of learning to snowboard, so now I also have something to teach her.

Her hair smelled sweet of shampoo.
What else could they smell like?

Well, perhaps by his liberation and faith in some other life... Exactly two o'clock on Fridays.

But the scent was too diffuse and weak, barely perceptible... to be anything more than just a perfume from a luxury cosmetics manufacturer.

Two hours on Fridays...

His blue and unearthly screams to her, so alive, so protesting “ I'm tired of being your personal psychologist. You are all made up of incurable neuroses. Nightmarish. Intimidated. Wild. You are everything.»

She doesn't hear.

Two hours on Fridays...

With painful injections, she pours out her soul, pours herself into him, looking at one point, wringing her cold fingers. And he spends the remaining 166 hours of the week picking it out of his own, etching it out, catching it, washing it out.

Unsuccessfully. Hopelessly. Tupikovo.

A strange transfusion of poison. From recipient to donor. The latter inevitably bends with each procedure.

She does not understand.

His living room is too small for even a tiny breath.
He always offers her tea. Synthetic chamomile. She always nods in agreement, but never drinks. Synthetically godless.

There is nothing sacred about her. But she is all an icon.

He simply sits down on the sofa while he habitually occupies the deep chair in the far corner of the room.
Just she speaks. Just He listens.

December is knocking zealously on the panoramic windows of his apartment. He made money on such windows. To such a Moscow from them.

But how did he earn such karma - to absorb her broken thoughts, falling from dry lips, reflected from the walls, and wait. It’s not clear why. Wait.

“I want to get back into sports, you know?”

It's like she's dying. And he just pretends to be a doctor. How can. According to the Stanislavsky system.

He rubs his sore left forearm through the light cotton of his shirt. Trying to relieve unbearable pain, unbearable itching.

A fresh tattoo burns to the point of insanity, burns with fire, begs to be revealed. The fabric just gets in the way. But healing ointments don’t help at all.
She but it only makes it worse. Now doubly so.

Left - because it is closer to the pounding heart.
Because the arteries and tangles of veins are straight from it. Straight out. Ink letters, thin font.

He should have pulled her off his sofa, jerked her sharply, so that she would only be able to scream in surprise, but not really be able to understand anything.

Her eyelids would only open wider. Perhaps she would have had time to open her mouth slightly in indignation.

He should rip off her today's dress, last sweater, last year's tunic. Damn it, he remembers her entire wardrobe and all their meaningless meetings.

Then she would have spat out a frightened “Sash”, without taking her touching, wet eyes off him.
He would whisper an emphatic “shut up” and it would sound like the sexiest thing ever.

He should soften it up. “Just be quiet, okay?”. She's still a girl.

I want to return to you, you know?

Have you ever cared about how I feel?
I'm still me. I am. I exist. I live. Or I think I'm alive. Or I’m pretending... What kind of Stanislavsky is that...

His hands would slide freely...

Discover something new in it. Take yours. By cells. Piece by piece. By seismic tremors from the inside and hot lava lips from the outside.

Learn.
Recall.

Believe that fragrance has absolutely nothing to do with it.

Shampoo manufacturers never dreamed of such.

He thought that “smell like heaven” was a winning idea for copywriters.

I couldn't breathe without you.
I couldn't live without you.

A girl of Moscow cork neuroses on the whitewash of Thai hotel sheets.

If only you knew how hard it is to forget...

She quietly-quietly, but loud-loud bursts into his stubborn, foggy fantasies. Until the membranes spasm.

Sash... - And he shudders. Coming back.

And he understands that he was dreaming again. It seemed. The mind is again playing its monstrous games with him.

I wonder how much important he missed. What did she say?

He feels fear as he looks at her closely. Studying.

If she feels the slightest lack of interest, he will lose trust. He'll lose her.

More precisely, what's left of it.
He got it in a crazy lottery of unprincipled bitch fate.

Sash, are you listening to me? - She nervously removes her chestnut bangs, purses her lips, and he is afraid that she will get up and leave right now.

The second time he will not survive the slam of his door, like the slam from a control shot.

The sun is falling so quickly behind the neighboring houses.

The sunset in winter is so elusive. So we can feel it intramuscularly. So disgustingly fast.

And he still remembers their personal sun of Phangan...

Her bleached hair with sea salt ingrained in it and the breeze in her face...

He hates the chlorine of the swimming pool in his gym and the sickeningly warm air of the car air conditioner. Some kind of mediocre replacement therapy.

Coconut milk in tetra packs from the supermarket shelves under the house does not come close to reckless breakfasts for two under real palm trees...

And he doesn’t even know when it all ended...

When her unfunny joke exploded like a shell at the threshold “ Millions of girls are pining for you. you will meet your love again, Sokolovsky».

Or much earlier...

Maybe when he simply stopped putting passwords on phones and computers...

And precocious twelve-year-old girls suddenly stopped being interested in teddy bears, and began to write him lewd poems about his fingers and their underwear...

He is used to.
She couldn't.

We separated. They fled. They regularly wished each other happiness for the holidays.

She's used to it.
He could not.

- I have no one to talk to, Sokolovsky.

She is smeared with mascara and sticky glitter smeared across her face. Half drunk. In a half-empty cafe. Fifteen minutes before his birthday.

And he blows out the candles. And he makes a single wish. And he says it out loud.
He just doesn't give a damn about superstitions.

All his desires depend on her. And she never knew how to read minds.

Hour on Fridays.

What's "hour on Fridays"? - She laughs loudly and beautifully in his kitchen. Drunk. Stupid. Darling.

He admires it. Smiles. For the first time sincerely in a million cold years. Summer has returned almost under the credits of gray winter.

- Come to me. Be with me. Sleep with me.

A smile is like paint from the skin from a solvent. It's being eaten away.
Alcohol is removed from the body. Weathered. Per second.

Well, that is... in pajamas, like brother and sister, right? - She smiles weakly, desperately trying to defuse the situation. But in general, she doesn’t find it funny at all. Even more so for him.

Like anyone. - He says seriously, looking for his reflection in her eyes. - Just come. Be with me. - And he catches her helpless fingers on the glass lid of the festive table, where the only celebration is a kilogram cake with cherries and white wine.

You're supposed to have cake. Piece of cake. You’re the birthday boy... - With trembling in his voice and probably in his palms. With pulse jumps. She fusses so touchingly, changing the subject. He grabs his hand and takes the knife.

- Adeline, today is Friday.

She carefully doesn't look at him, ignoring the hint as she finishes the cake.

- Adeline... Look at me.

And after inhaling and exhaling, she looks, licking her finger, which (by the way) did not fall into the cherry cream. And his tower is completely blown away.

Recklessly. Unmemorable. Irrevocably.

The cold glass burns her buttocks.

On the table there are glasses, from which wine splashes out more and more with every movement. Now the table is truly festive.

Two hours... - He scorches her ear with his breath, increasing the pace, accelerating inside her. - I want two hours...

He demands. He claims his rights.

Glasses fall noisily. They break. For luck.

She is silent and before orgasm almost breaks his neck, clutching, pressing on the back of his head, pressing him tightly to her, forcing him to be even closer and deeper.

This gives them two hours on Fridays.

And timid hope for that same one - another life.

In practice - tense meetings of sub-friends/sub-colleagues, according to the “psychoanalyst-patient” scenario, with the traditional transplantation (removal, but not importation) of his brain and the futile transplantation of past feelings that did not take root in her.

Her irritated “Sash” repeatedly spreads around the perimeter, echoes in her head and hangs in the cold space like molecules of a thick Thai fog. Cold, despite the heated floors, reliable double-glazed windows and its fiery heart.

“Well, we promised to try... To ourselves. Us. Both of us."

She looks at him dissatisfied, strangely, surprised.

When he doesn’t respond, but simply gets up abruptly from his chair and decisively walks towards her, crossing the spacious living room with carpets and originals of modern art on the frozen walls with the frost of a thousand unspoken words.

He grabs her fragile hand, and her painted eyes actually open wider. She gives a predictable, girlish shriek of surprise when he roughly tugs, lifts her, shakes her, not allowing her neat feet to touch the floor, and then places her on the sofa.

Now she breathes intermittently through her mouth, out of indignation she cannot utter a word, again with a nervous, quick movement of her fingers she removes her bangs and stands taller than him. She's probably always been taller. And it’s not about height at all...

Her look is the look of a hunted cat. Predatory. A minute - and she will rush at him and scratch his face with her claws.

Her heart still beats unimaginably under her dress, skipping beats, her fingers timidly pull down her slightly lifted skirt.

Sasha unbuttons the cuffs and a couple of buttons at the top.

A funny threat-warning falls from your beloved lips:

- If you lay even a finger on me...

-Have I ever hurt you?

Her silent and sharp “yes” cuts the throat, getting stuck in it.

He takes a step towards her, she takes a step back, with her hands behind her, looking for support, finding it in the wide back of the sofa.

“Their” song begins to sound from the speakers, the same song from the islands.

The one he sang to her.

This is, indeed, some kind of evil irony of a shuffle in a music center - to now choose this particular composition from an immense playlist. Or maybe it’s just fate, because such coincidences don’t happen.

He smiles. Barely noticeable. Remembering what connected them, he cannot do anything else.

Do you remember?
(You, damn it, remember everything...)

Her face expresses nothing.

She steps off the soft upholstery and seems to be afraid of him, asking permission with her eyes to pass.
“What’s wrong with you, Adeline? You don't trust me anymore..."

- Today is Friday. You can't leave.

He touches the smooth line of her jaw, forcing her to look straight into her eyes.

- I gave you too expensive a gift... This is all a stupid idea. Sorry.

She removes his hand, and the sounds of her footsteps are absorbed by the long pile of the carpet.

The speakers cry hysterically with soft tenor grief and this crying spreads throughout the apartment, flowing into it with forgotten warmth and past, unnecessary experiences.

She, too, can barely hold back her tears, hastily wrapping a scarf over her dark cashmere coat, not immediately getting into her boots.

"not here. not here. not here."

And he doesn’t even turn around, biting his lip.

(Adeline, you will have time to slip out, swim out, throw yourself ashore and run to the car. You will have time (it’s unclear why) to block the doors and then you will be able to cry out loud, resting your forehead on the steering wheel.)

- Am I not worthy of expensive gifts?

He prepares for her fatal bullet not in the back, at point-blank range, appearing on the threshold of an terribly narrow hallway, where every centimeter oozes with poisonous feelings. Damn them.

The two of them will die right now from intoxication, overdose or asphyxia. Right now. It doesn't matter what exactly. Their bodies will be found here, on the doormat.

Prosaic. Unrespectable. But they won't care anymore.

Fucking Romeo and Juliet... Some kind of fairy tale that is not theirs at all. An uncomfortable fairy tale. Stupid fairy tale.

Well, what kind of Romeo is he... Shitty Romeo. He has outgrown this role.

Her crazy numerous "no no no" they cut the entrails with growing thorn bushes. And she will definitely die from internal bleeding.

And the complex lock turns treacherously, not wanting to release her into oxygen freedom. She's starving. Malaise. And all the signs of imminent death. And despair bursts loudly like multi-colored balloons right in the narrow sternum. Hurt. Hurt. Hurt.
“You hurt me a lot.”

She doesn't have time.
She can't cope.
She hits her fist and drops her forehead on the glossy metal door and whines like a weak, offended girl.

She sobs like a desperate Juliet, shaking her chilly shoulders in dark cashmere.

She doesn't make it to the steering wheel.
And she is thrown onto some other shore...
With real palm trees, natural coconut milk and eyes as blue as the sea itself...

Her ship runs aground.
Her ship is home.

- My girl...- A strong and persistent palm places the naughty head on the surprisingly warm, hot chest.

There are exactly two people trapped in the air. And no more. There is nothing else.

“More” simply does not exist.

She's wearing a coat.

For some reason he is shirtless, wearing only trousers. And the woolen fabric of her clothes is like sandpaper on open wounds and exposed nerves.

Sasha wipes away her tears, lightly touching her wet cheeks with her fingertips.

Adeline still sees unclearly, through a veil, and there is practically no usable light here, but she notices something incomprehensible, dark on the man’s hand. She tenses up - the spot could be a hematoma or a large bruise.

Sasha catches her interested gaze and raises her hand, bringing her forearm a little closer, allowing the girl to see more clearly.

On his skin, between the elbow and wrist, fresh, shiny paint burns, intricately and forever intertwined with the blue of large veins.

The ornate Latin script, with swelling and inflamed redness around it, screams her name. Adelina.

She screams so hard that she goes deaf.

She stalls. Temporarily there is only the sound of your own blood in your ears. And the floor under your feet slowly moves somewhere to the left.

Adeline, like a bactericidal plaster, peels it off with difficulty and shifts her gaze, looking into Sasha’s bottomless eyes, not believing her own.

She's getting hot. It's stuffy.

From the realization that this is their “forever”, she is ready to fall apart into hundreds of pieces right this second.

- Two hours on Fridays is not enough for me...

(now you are always with me)

She reaches out to touch.
She wants to touch. Furiously. And Sasha doesn’t mind and doesn’t even wince in pain, although she’s probably there.

The tips of her fingers carefully follow letter by letter, touching the voluminous inscription due to swelling, tracing the contours.

His breathing loses its regular rhythm.

Her touch is the best healing agent. Instant anesthetic.
Fast-acting general anesthesia.

This is their eternity.
This is their own fairy tale.

When, on an amazingly starry night, they lie across the wide bed, covered with the cool silk of weightless sheets, and her sleepy lips in the pale light of the Moon find a piece of Latin, he, through his sleep, only quietly exhales “beloved,” touches Adeline’s temple, and dissolves in without a trace...

as in their personal eternity.

She is in the lead. Sotnikova told us in an interview that her partner can set the highest bar on the project. At the recording of the next episode of the show “Ice Age - 2016” we found out from Alexander Sokolovsky what he thinks about this.

- Maxim Trankov admitted that he considers the stars of Molodezhka to be the main competitors in the show “Ice Age - 2016”. Do you feel superior to others and do you consider your couple to be one of the strongest on the project?

Honestly, this is a surprise for me! But I am pleased that there is such an opinion. No, of course we skate well. But, on the contrary, it’s a little more difficult for us than for everyone else. First of all, because I am not a professional. And when a boy in a pair doesn’t know how to skate, it’s always much more difficult. In addition, all the other skaters are double skaters. They can tell their non-professional partner how and what to do. With us, Adeline herself has to learn everything from scratch: pair skating is new to her. Therefore, I repeat, it is still a little more difficult for us than for everyone else. But we try very hard to compete adequately with other couples. We have already received quite high marks in the third program.

Alexander Sokolovsky and Adelina Sotnikova with colleagues on the show “Ice Age - 2016”

- Didn’t you expect such a good result?

No, for me these grades are already at a fairly high level. I even think that we skated a little worse than usual, and they gave us a small advance today. We had several technical errors.

- Have any of your Molodezhka colleagues, besides you and Mikhail Gavrilov, been offered to take part in the project?

Honestly, I don't know. I myself ended up in the project at the very last moment. I was hired literally three weeks before the first broadcast, and everyone else had been skating since June.

Knowing that you would have less time to train than other participants, did you still agree to participate?

Of course, I immediately agreed, because I adore the Ice Age project and have been watching it since the very first season. It’s very interesting to watch how people who don’t know how to do something learn to do it and reveal a new side. In my opinion, projects like Ice Age are a cool story.

Alexander Sokolovsky with Molodezhka colleagues Ivan Mulin and Igor Ogurtsov

- In Molodezhka there were skates, here there are skates again. Are you tired of them yet?

These are two completely different sports. They have nothing in common. Hockey and figure skates are just heaven and earth. The difference between them is the same as between skis and snowboards. When, after a month and a half of figure skating, I came to the set of “Molodezhka” and went on the ice, I realized that I could no longer stand on hockey skates. I even fell several times. I realized that these two sports are simply impossible to combine. I decided that I would not play hockey until the end of the Ice Age. So now I only have figure skating on my agenda and I don’t do anything else.

- Do your colleagues from Molodezhka support you and Mikhail Gavrilov? Do they come to the shooting with posters?

No, on the contrary, they make fun of me. Yes, I would do the same myself if I were in their place. In the hockey community, it’s common to tease each other. This is a normal part of communication. And it’s actually funny: from a hockey player to a figure skater.

- How important does Ice Age play in your life? Or is this just another hobby?

I try to immerse myself as much as possible in any passion I have in life if I really like it. It happened to me with hockey. I became very immersed in this topic: I began to read, watch, study, try, and do a lot. About the same thing happened with figure skating. I really love dancing, but I have never done it at a professional level. And “Ice Age” gave me such an opportunity. In general, everything came together. I never thought that I would like figure skating so much, and that I would watch competitions in this sport and study videos of professional performances on the Internet. Now I can’t even imagine what I’ll do in December, when the Ice Age ends.

- Are there any elements you saw on the Internet that you would dream of repeating yourself on the ice?

I had plans to do a “throw away”. But I could not even imagine that we would complete it already during the third program. It’s just that during one of the rehearsals the idea came up to make a “release” right here and now. And they did it! So I already have something to be proud of. In fact, we are really great: we have already done what we previously thought was simply impossible. After all, it’s one thing to do support with a guy who has been doing this all her life, and quite another thing with a person who has never danced in a couple in her life. And for me a very important point is that Adeline trusts me. But I, too, have never done support before in my life.

Oksana Bondarchuk

Columnist for Tricolor TV Magazine

TV viewers' favorites: the most interesting couples of the Ice Age project

After a long break, Channel One began broadcasting one of the most anticipated shows on television - Ice Age. The project, in which figure skating champions dance in an embrace with celebrities, patiently teaching them the intricacies of figure skating, is one of the highest rated on TV. Fans had to wait two years to once again enjoy the colorful dance numbers of their favorite movie, show business and sports stars. On the eve of the next issue of the program, Tricolor TV Magazine reviewed the most interesting couples of the project.

YULIA BARANOVSKAYA – MAXIM SHABALIN

She is a petite, blue-eyed, blonde, single mother of three children. He is a tall, stately brunette, an Olympic champion. It seems that the TV presenter Yulia Baranovskaya and figure skater Maxim Shabalin created for dancing in pairs. Julia, who became famous after a high-profile divorce from a football player Andrey Arshavin, as admitted, never followed a sports regime and never skated. Shabalin performed in ice dancing paired with Oksana Domnina and was awarded an Olympic bronze medal, became a world champion, two-time European champion, winner of the Grand Prix series and world junior champion. In addition, Shabalin is an Honored Master of Sports of Russia. Maxim and Yulia first met on ice in a shopping center. As the skater admits, Yulia amazed him by coming to the first training session with children who pulled her in all directions. That was cute . Maxim impressed the girl with his elegance. Yulia had to start training that was unusual for her, since Yulia did not know how to ride. Maxim and Yulia performed a passionate and touching number about the separation and love of a lady in red and her man in a business suit. Parting is a topic that has been close to Baranovskaya since the bitter break with Arshavin, who left his wife alone with three children and raised a scandal over the payment of alimony. Perhaps that’s why the number turned out to be especially heartfelt. The jury gave the couple high marks for their artistry and the way the couple conveyed the mood. The judges also noticed that Maxim treats Yulia with special tenderness and holds her in every support, like a fragile jewel. After breaking up with Arshavin, Yulia Baranovskaya proved many things: that she can become more famous than her husband, that she can start a career on television from scratch, that she can raise three children alone, and now she will prove that she can skate with the champion.

ADELINA SOTNIKOVA - ALEXANDER SOKOLOVSKY

20 year old Adeline Sotnikova- Olympic champion in women's single skating, gladly accepted the invitation of the producers "Ice Age" and took under her wing one of the most eligible bachelors from the acting community - 27-year-old Alexander Sokolovsky- TV series stars "Molodezhka". Tall, blue-eyed, blond Alexander, of course, knows how to skate, because in “Molodezhka” he plays the main character, a hockey player Egor Shchukin - hope and support for a team that dreams of becoming a winner. As Alexander admitted, Adeline struck him not only with her talent, but also with her beauty. "She's beautiful!" - exclaims Sokolovsky. For Adeline, this experience was also new - after all, she had never danced in a couple before and had never starred in previous seasons of Ice Age. In the first episodes, the young people showed a cowboy act together, where they had a blast. The judges noted that they feel great about each other.

OKSANA DOMNINA – DANIIL SPIVAKOVSKY

Oksana Domnina– sports “half” Maxim Shabalina, together with him she dances in pairs in the professional arena. Now they've split up on the show. This is not the first time for the Olympic champion "Glacial period". Oksana’s last project ended in a whirlwind romance with her show partner, an actor. Vladimir Yaglych. For his sake, she left her common-law husband, figure skater, champion and father of her daughter Roman Kostomarov. It is not surprising that Vladimir and Oksana looked very romantic on the ice; the girl literally drowned in the arms of a strong, muscular blond. How can you not fall in love? However, a year later, Oksana broke up with Vladimir and returned to Kostomarov, whom she married in April 2014. At the beginning of 2016, the couple had a son. This time, Roman need not be afraid of the show “Ice Age” and his wife’s hasty romances. Oksana's ice dancing partner is a 47-year-old Daniil Spivakovsky, Honored Artist of Russia, winner of the " TEFI", happily married for the second time and raising three children. Together, Oksana and Daniil showed a comical number like a “zombie”, where Daniil transformed into a skeleton. The jury appreciated the high artistry of the performers.

EKATERINA VARNAVA – MAXIM MARININ

31-year-old Russian and Ukrainian TV presenter, film actress, participant and choreographer of the show “Comedy Woman” Ekaterina Varnava I was amazed by the quick change of my images Maxima Marinina, Russian figure skater, Olympic champion in figure skating at the Turin Olympics, paired with Tatyana Totmyanina. Maxim opened his mouth when he saw his partner "Ice Age" appears in the park because of the fog, either in the form of a cool rocker girl in a leather jacket, or in the form of a “go-stop” girl in the park chewing gum. For Maxim, the ice show is an important part of his career. After all, due to his participation in numerous seasons of the project, he abandoned big-time sports and after the Olympics he never returned there. The attempt to re-enter the professional arena ended unsuccessfully - they could not come to an agreement with the Figure Skating Federation on a financial issue. By the way, Maxim previously danced with the current presenter of “Ice Age” Alla Mikheeva. So Maxim and Ekaterina are ready for numerous experiments on ice and promise to give their all to the show. It will not be easy for Ekaterina to skate because of her height (175 cm), because it is known that petite ladies have better luck on ice, but fans are interested in whether she will be able to find love at the ice show. Previously, numerous novels were attributed to her, but Barnabas is still not married, although . As for Maxim, he lives in a civil marriage with a famous ballerina and is raising children.

MARIA PETROVA – ALEXEY SEROV

She is a little red riding hood, and he is a huge gray wolf. Champion Maria Petrova and singer Alexey Serov surprised the jury with a fabulous performance on ice and received satisfactory marks. But last season "Ice Age" It turned out unsuccessfully for Maria - she left the project ahead of schedule. As the jury members noted, she was simply unlucky with her partners: first, the first one is the presenter Maxim Sharafutdinov – got injured and dropped out, and then the second one - Valery Nikolaev – left due to injury. Serov already showed in the first issue that he is capable of much, although this is his first serious skating on ice. “He’s technically doing everything right!” – Maria praises her new partner. Who would have thought that the leader of the group "Accident" would generally want to participate in ice dancing, but Serov stated that he agreed immediately, without hesitation, since the ability to skate was his childhood dream. “I envied the older guys in the yard: they skated smartly, and I kept falling. And now I don't fall anymore! Unless, of course, I’m doing complex elements...” Serov admitted. To learn how to skate from scratch, Serov trained twice a day starting in July, that is, almost three months. Even on tour. The mentor anxiously followed the newcomer’s achievements. Let us remind you that Maria won the title of world, European and Russian champion in pair skating with Alexey Tikhonov– your partner not only on the ice, but also in life. Nine years ago she completed her amateur sports career. And six years ago she gave birth to her husband’s daughter.

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Adelina Sotnikova and Alexander Sokolovsky
// Photo: Instagram

The final of the new season of the popular show “Ice Age” took place on Channel One.

Sochi Olympic champion Adelina Sotnikova and her partner, actor of the TV series “Molodezhka” Alexander Sokolovsky were recognized as the best couple of the project. Throughout all stages of the enchanting show, Adeline and Alexander delighted the audience and the strict jury with their performances. Sokolovsky performed the most complex technical elements, and Sotnikova, thanks to her partner, turned from a single skater to a double skater. Both the audience and the judges noted that Adeline and Sasha look simply amazing together. In the finale, they performed fiery rock and roll, drawing thunderous applause from the audience.

Before the performance, Adelina Sotnikova admitted that she got an incredible partner.

“Sasha is brave, he’s just crazy. All the time he wanted to do something extreme on the ice, and he succeeded,” said the Olympic champion. “I’m incredibly sorry that the project is ending, I don’t want to part with anyone.”

Alexander Sokolovsky, in turn, also called the figure skater an incredible girl. “Adelina is space! - said the actor. – We are very suitable for each other in terms of energy. We never had a fight during the entire project. The first time we met was at the CSKA skating rink; I didn’t yet know what awaited me. Adelina, I’m glad that I skated with you!”

As the guys admitted to the hosts of “Ice Age” Alla Mikheeva and Alexei Yagudin, they plan to continue communication after the project. Only they will no longer meet on the ice. Alexander Sokolovsky said that he was ready to make at least a friendship proposal to Adeline Sotnikova.

It is worth noting that Adelina Sotnikova became a debutant in the “Ice Age” project. Having appeared in it, the Olympic champion pushed the venerable participants of the show off the pedestal. Second place this season was shared by two couples - Tatyana Navka and Andrey Burkovsky, Povilas Vanagas and Evgenia Kregzhde, the third place was taken by Maxim Trankov and Yulianna Karaulova. Yulia Baranovskaya openly spoke about leaving “Ice Age”

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Not three, but four pairs of Ice Age participants were on the podium
// Photo: Still from the program

Having become real triumphs of the Ice Age, Adelina Sotnikova and Alexander Sokolovsky accept congratulations from their fans on social networks.

“Happy victory to you! Well done!”, “Congratulations, Alexander and Adeline, on a well-deserved victory! You were the best couple this season! Be just as artistic, and most importantly, never stop skating, because you are so good at it!”, “I am sincerely happy about your victory! You will remain forever in my heart!”, “Sasha, Adelina, congratulations! I was only rooting for you, one of your numbers is better than the other, and you and Adelina are a wonderful couple!” write the couple’s loyal fans.