The chosen ones have the character, the desire to win: what impressions did the tournament of Russian figure skaters at the Spartakiad leave?. Evgeny Semenenko and Mark Kondratyuk, one of whom crossed the grandmaster mark of 300 points, and the second came close to it.

The ability to get together and give your best where it is most important was lacking in different years for Maxim Kovtun and Mikhail Kolyada, Dmitry Aliyev and Alexander Samarin.