Oksana Baiul — skater (gold medal) with roots in the USSR
Oksana Baiul, born on 16 November 1977 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, is a Ukrainian figure skater. She was coached by Stanislav Koritek from the age of five and, from August 1992, by Halyna Zmievska in Odesa. She won the 1993 World Championships in Prague at 15 and the women's singles gold at the 1994 Lillehammer Olympics at 16. She moved to the United States in 1994.
"Baiul moved to the United States in 1994, after the Lillehammer Olympics, and settled in Connecticut."
Migration storyTracing the roots — Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro)
Baiul was born in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, in 1977 and trained there and, from 1992, in Odesa. Her mother died in 1991, when she was 13. She moved to the United States after the 1994 Olympics.
Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro). At the time, this region was one of the fifteen republics of the Soviet Union.