Galina Petrovna Tajoschnaja

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Galina Tajoschnaja Alpine skiing
Full name Galina Petrovna Tajoschnaja
Галина Петровна Таёжная
nation Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Soviet Union
birthday 1914
place of birth Moscow,  RussiaRussian Empire 1914Russian Empire 
job sculptor
date of death 1982
Career
discipline Departure
Medal table
Soviet championship 1 × gold ? ×silver ? ×bronze
Soviet championshipsTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
gold 1940 Departure
 

Galina Petrovna Tajoschnaja ( Russian Галина Петровна Таёжная ; * 1914 in Moscow as Galina Petrovna Tscheschuina , Russian Галина Петровна Чешуина ; † 1982 ) was a Soviet skier and sculptor .

Galina Tajoschnaja was the daughter of the sculptor Pyotr Tajoschny-Tscheschuin . She and her sister Olga Tajoschnaja both became sculptors as well . She was also an active skier and in 1940 became the first Soviet female champion in alpine descent . At the first women's alpine skiing championships a year earlier, only one slalom had been carried out. Also in 1940 she was the first woman to ski down from the eastern summit of Elbrus , together with her teacher Wadim Gippenreiter and just one year after his first descent from this summit. She was honored as a master of sports . Tajoschnaja died in 1982 and was buried in the grave of her parents in the Donskoy Cemetery in Moscow.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c Таежная Галина Петровна ( Russian ) Спорт-страна.ру. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
  2. КАК ВСЕ НАЧИНАЛОСЬ (How it all began) ( Russian ) Юрий Сергеевич Преображенский. Archived from the original on February 11, 2011. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  3. ТАЁЖНАЯ (Таёжная-Чешуина) Ольга Петровна (1911 - 2007) ( Russian ) moscow-tombs.ru. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
  4. История горнолыжного спорта ( Russian ) February 21, 2006. Retrieved January 28, 2015.
  5. a b Раменская Тамара (Tamara Ramenskaja): Российскому лыжному спорту 110 лет: высшие спортивные достижения лыжников ( Russian ) 1 December 2005. Accessed January 28, 2015.
  6. На лыжах с Эльбруса (On Skis on Elbrus) ( Russian ) ООО «Издательский дом журнала Смена». Retrieved January 28, 2015.