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

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.

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.

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,

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, the 1994 World Figure Skating champions in pairs representing Russia, were among the 64 passengers killed aboard American Airlines 5342 when it

An American Airlines flight tragically collided with a Black Hawk helicopter on January 29, 2025, carrying two Russian figure skaters. Learn more about them here.

Two teenage figure skaters, their mothers, and two former world champions who were coaching at a historic Boston club were among the 14 members of the skating community killed when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter Wednesday night and crashed into the frigid waters of the Potomac