Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva talks with trampoliners before the festival in Sirius

After the New Year party, we learned from Liya Rodionova from St. Petersburg, Ksenia Savinova from Gatchina, Yana Zaikina from Volgograd, Malika Timurshina from Kazan, Eva Kononova from the Tyumen Region and Sofia Vorobyeva from Moscow how this year went for them and asked them to name the most memorable events.

The Academy recently began selecting gymnasts for the group exercises. In a new video, we talked with a participant in the selection for the senior team — Sofia Bobrik from Zhukovsky.

Olympic champion Alina Kabaeva thanked all the coaches, gymnasts, medical staff, tutors and chefs that were part of the Academy in 2025, and congratulated them on the upcoming New Year!

Do you want to know what was the atmosphere airing in the training hall after the party? Be quick to watch our video!

They also appreciated progress of their daughter Polina over this year of studies at the Academy.

Virsavia Mishchenkova and Ulyana Khudyakova, the preschoolers from free early development groups, told us about that. Let’s look at the festival program as the girls saw it!

And we show their genuine emotions!

On the eve of the New Year, the large team of the Academy congratulated everyone who helps to develop rhythmic gymnastics.

This new episode is dedicated to the results of the Hopes of Russia tournament in Yekaterinburg.

What the participants in the New Year concert received? Eliza Polegaeva and Polina Pakhomova show that.

The group gymnast decided to go back to Nizhny Novgorod. She missed her parents terribly and made a choice to live in her hometown. Before leaving, the gymnast left a gift for the Olympic champion. She made a book containing her most treasured photos from her time competing.

Dmitry is the winner of the 2025 St. Petersburg Junior Championships in the +90 kg category under 18, and Maxim is the silver medalist of the 2025 St. Petersburg Championship in the -60 kg category under 21. The athletes told how the day of competition turned out, what they like judo for, and what the philosophy of this sport is.

Why did they decide to participate in the selection? What goals do they set for themselves? And what do they love about the group exercise? Margarita Grigoryeva from Krasnodar, Anastasia Perepechenova from Kazan, Vladislava Gaivoronskaya from Voronezh, Alexandra Ponomaрева from the Rostov Region, Anastasia Mikhaleva, Maria Lobeiko and Maria Kuznetsova from Moscow, Kira Kopteva from the Moscow Region, Alina Chistyakova from the Arkhangelsk Region and Alisa Kirpicheva from St. Petersburg tell us.

Very soon we will find out what festive performances our youngest gymnasts have prepared. In the meantime, let's take a look at the rehearsal!

Take a look at how 1996 European Champion Anna Ustsova greets athletes from different cities.