Irina Cherniaeva

Irina Cherniaeva
Personal information
Native name
Ирина Евгеньевна Черняева
Full nameIrina Evgenyevna Cherniaeva
Other namesTcherniaeva
Anisina
Born (1955-10-29) 29 October 1955
Figure skating career
Country Soviet Union

Irina Evgenyevna Cherniaeva (Russian: Ирина Евгеньевна Черняева; born 29 October 1955 in Moscow) is a Russian former pair skater who competed for the Soviet Union. With her skating partner, Vasili Blagov, she represented the Soviet Union at the 1972 Winter Olympics where they placed 6th.

As of 2018, Tcherniaeva is a skating coach at Anglet Sports de Glace in France. She is the mother of ice dancer Marina Anissina and ice hockey player Mikhail Anisin, and is of Ukrainian descent.