The future figure skater was born in a simple Soviet family, her mother worked as a gynecologist, and her father worked as an engineer. At the age of six, the girl was sent to the figure skating section. The little girl was in her place. She did not complain, but on the contrary, she enjoyed playing sports. Then she began to go to training in Moscow, her day began and ended in the dark, but Ira did not grumble. Yes, and her first coach Natalya Heidi grey highly appreciated the abilities of the ward and predicted a bright future for her. Irina started her way in figure skating as a single skater, but a serious knee injury almost put an end to her career.
Then she retrained in less traumatic ice dancing. Irina had no luck with partners for a long time. The first – Oleg Onishchenko – at some point decided to quit sports and went into business. Alexey Pospelov became the next partner of Lobacheva, but he, too, did not linger in the sport. Irina met her permanent partner, Ilya Averbukh, at the age of 18. The Lobacheva-Averbukh pair was one of the brightest in ice dancing, they won many awards in both domestic and international competitions, but the Silver medal of the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City in 2002 remained the highest award. After that, the couple announced the end of their sports career.
Irina took part in several seasons of the Ice Age show on Channel One. Now she works as a figure skating coach at her own school.
Personal life of Irina Lobacheva
Ilya Averbukh was not only Irina’s partner in sports, but also her husband. Their relationship began as soon as they were paired. Young people rented an apartment and began to live together. But they got married in 1995 not out of love, but out of the need to get an American visa. Their union lasted until 2007, the news of their divorce was a bolt from the blue for many, because just three years before that, the couple had a long-awaited child – son Martin.
Lobacheva called the reason for the breakup the betrayal of her husband, who had an affair on the set of the first season of Ice Age. Subsequently, the skater admitted that by that time they were connected with her husband only by talking about sports and a common child.
For several years, the athlete met with her partner on the ice TV show, Russian cinema actor Dmitry Maryanov. They lived together, found an approach to each other’s children from a previous relationship (Martin became friends with Maryanov ‘s eldest child , son Daniel). According to the skater, if she had become pregnant then, Dmitry would have married her. But he played a double game, meeting with a psychologist from Kharkov, Ksenia Bik. The girl became pregnant, and Lobacheva, according to her, let Maryanov go. They maintained friendly relations and communicated. The death of Dmitry Maryanov on October 15, 2017 was a terrible blow for Irina Lobacheva. She accused Xenia of his death and self-interest, who by that time had become the artist’s legal wife. On the air of one of the TV shows, the skater saidthat if Maryanov had stayed with her, he would have been alive …
After breaking up with Dmitry, Irina met for a year and a half with an entrepreneur who was seven years younger than her lover. They planned to legalize the relationship, but the man suddenly died of a heart attack on the threshold of the entrance of the house in which he lived.
Also, a very dark story is connected with the name of Irina Lobacheva. In December 2015, a man fell out of her bedroom window from the 14th floor . Was it a suicide or an accident on the background of severe alcohol intoxication, and remained a mystery. The incident happened when Irina herself was sleeping, and she woke up because it became cold in the room due to the open window. 45-year-old Alexander Shumakov was found still alive. In the man’s pockets, six receipts from the pawnshop were found at once, according to which he pawned jewelry made of precious metals. The police are sure that the figure skater’s lover committed suicide due to serious problems with money. But it was not possible to clarify the situation – Shumakov died 15 days later, without regaining consciousness.
On August 4, 2017, Irina secretly married a young figure skater Ivan Tretyakov – the couple’s age difference is 16 years. The couple did not arrange a magnificent celebration, inviting relatives and parents of their students to the ceremony. Juana Ahumada admitted that she and her husband plan to get married, and also dream of a common daughter.
