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.

Watch video of the 1994 performance of the married Boston area figure skate coaches who died in the Washington, D.C. plane crash on Wednesday night.

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,

The two Russian figure skating coaches killed in the American Airlines plane crash in D.C. were two-time Olympians and former world champions in the pairs event who went on to coach in New England.

A Boston-area skating club reportedly lost two skaters, their mothers, and two coaches in the mid-air plane collision in Washington, D.C.

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.