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Academy champion Diana Sobyanina shared her assessment of her performance at this competition and highlighted her most difficult routine.

On the first day of the Russian Junior Championship, Academy gymnasts Diana Kotlovskaya, Evelina Tandalova, Veronika Malinina, and Liya Rodionova performed their hoop and ball routines.

Athletes and coaches at at the Russian junior championship watched Mariia Borisova performing with clubs.

The program was created by Alina Festival choreographer Natalia Belugina, and Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva and coaches Evgeniya Eliseeva and Olga Minigalina helped refine the key details.

While in Tashkent for the World Cup stage, the coach helped Evelina Tandalova from the Tyumen Region and Diana Kotlovskaya from St. Petersburg prepare.

Now-a-days, we're closely following not only the World Cup stage in Tashkent, but also the Russian Junior Championship among first-category gymnasts in St. Petersburg.

Eva Kononova and Mariia Borisova held their first training sessions in Uzbekistan before the start of the World Cup stage, and Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva, along with coaches Evgeniya Eliseeva, Olga Minigalina, and Irina Gusarova, helped them practice elements and risks.

The program was choreographed by Natalia Belugina, a choreographer for the Alina festival. Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva and coaches Evgeniya Eliseeva and Olga Minigalina helped the gymnast refine the routine ahead of the competition.

During training, Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva and Academy coach Anna Ustsova helped the gymnasts analyze every detail of the lift and the transition to the next part of the five-ball routine.

We're showing the creative process all the way from Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva's idea to its implementation at the Russian Championships!

It helps making the execution of elements more stable.

Mariia Borisova, Eva Kononova and our group exercise team are preparing for performances at the World Cup stage.

An assessment training session is an opportunity for Academy pre-juniors to finally check their routines before the Russian junior championship. It is also a chance for the youngest gymnasts from free early development groups to watch how the senior athletes are working and become inspired by their example.

In this video, you’ll see Evgeniya Eliseeva and Olga Minigalina preparing Ksenia ahead of the hoop final and greeting the girls after their performances.

The gymnast won a silver medal. Her coach is Irina Gusarova.

Who were the spectators at the Shining Star international tournament rooting for, and who surprised them? Emina Jabbarova and Samiya Yuldasheva, Yana Bikmaeva and Sofia Pak share their thoughts.

The gymnast’s choreographer is Natalia Belugina, an Alina festival choreographer. Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva and Academy coaches Evgeniya Eliseeva and Olga Minigalina also played an active role in the creative process.

Choreographer Ekaterina Belova and judge Zlata Tulubaeva worked with Ksenia Savinova and Yana Zaikina. Coach Evgenia Eliseeva called the gymnasts immediately after the workout to ask about their first impressions and offer some important guidance ahead of the competition.

Ksenia Savinova's fouette and Alesya Naifonova's planché are here for you!

The young gymnasts learn new elements and practice exercises together with coach Elizaveta Zorkina.

Arina Kovshova, coach Elizaveta Chernova and judges Olga Frolova and Olga Minigalina returned home from the World Cup stage in Sofia!

Two-time Olympic champion Evgenia Kanaeva produced the clubs routine for Yana Zaikina from Volgograd and Evgenia Eliseeva, Olga Minigalina, and Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva helped to practice it.

Alina Kabaeva showed Elizaveta Geraskina from Moscow how to perform a risk with clubs correctly.

The gymnasts won three gold medals in Kazan: in the all-around and in the exercises with five balls and five ribbons.

The team won all possible gold medals.

Sharing an episode of the assessment training session of our group exercise gymnasts before the Russian junior championship.

The team from the Omsk Region presented images of Greek goddesses at the tournament in the exercise with five ribbons. The lineup: Sabina Kuzmina, Yulia Sevostyanova, Veronika Romanova, Varvara Maslennikova, Polina Maslova, and Ekaterina Ivanishcheva. Coaches: Elena Arajs and Oksana Kurganskaya.

Alina Kabaeva noticed at a training session in Novogorsk that Yana Zaikina from Volgograd made mistakes in them.

Why is it valuable for gymnasts to compete at the Russian Junior Championships Group exercise gymnasts Margarita Berkutova, Sofia Kutnenko, Anastasia Shatokhina, Amina Shamshutdinova and Anastasia Kondratenko from Samara spoke about that at the tournament in Kazan.

After the performance with balls at the Russian Junior Championship, our group exercise gymnast, began preparing for the second competition day together with Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva, coach Daria Pirogova, and choreographer Elena Egorova. The gymnasts also watched performances of the group exercise gymnasts at the World Cup stage in Sofia.