Russian figure-skating coaches and spouses Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were among the passengers onboard the doomed American Airlines plane that collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk ...

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.

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics. Chris Cole / Getty Images file. Though losing his parents to tragedy has upended his life, ...

FILE – Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov of Russia perform during free skating in the pairs event of the NHK Trophy International Figure Skating Competition at Nagoya central Japan, Dec. 9, 1995.

Figure skating coaches and former world pairs champions Vadim Naumov, 55, and Evgenia Shishkova, 52, were among those who are presumed dead in the fatal aircraft collision in Washington on Wednesday.

Russian figure skating pair Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were among those on board when an American Airlines flight collided with a U.S. Army helicopter, the Kremlin said.

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, center, became an internationally-known figure skating team from Russia in the 1990s. They trained at the same arena as Marina Eltsova and Andrei Bushkov, right.

World champions Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov of Russia execute a throw during the pairs short competition at the World Figure Skating competition in Edmonton, Alberta, March 19, 1996.

Before Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, world-known Olympic figure skaters turned coaches, left Wichita on the American Airlines plane that collided mid-air with an Army Black Hawk helicopter ...

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov won a world championship title together in pairs skating in 1994 and narrowly missed out on Olympic medals that year at the Lillehammer Games before moving to ...

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.