Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov visited Pittsfield with their son, figure skater Maxim Naumov. The family visited as special guests of the Pittsfield Figure Skating Club at its

Evgenia Shishkova and her husband Vadim Naumov were from Russia but lived in Norwood, Massachusetts, close to where they coached.

We skated together. We grew up in Saint Petersburg and we skated on the same ice,” said Marina Eltsova, of Leawood. “It’s surreal. ... I know there are videos of what happened. I just did not want to see it.

PIERRE VERDY/AFP via Getty Images Russian figure skating duo Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were partners on and off the ice. The couple sparked a romance not long after they began competing as pairs skating partners in 1985.

Passengers aboard the American Airlines flight that collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River included athletes returning from the U.S.

Ludmila Velikov trained Yevgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov when they were children and told Reuters the couple was like family to her.

Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, the veteran Russian ice skating pair who triumphed at the 1994 World Figure Championships and went on to a professional coaching career in the United States, were among the passengers who died on a plane that crashed in Washington,

World Figure Skating pairs champions frequently shared pictures of their skating pupils, including their son, Maxim Naumov

The Skating Club of Boston lost two coaches, two young skaters and their two mothers in the deadly crash of American Airlines Flight 5342 in Washington, D.C.