Ivan Andreyevich Bukin is a Russia

Russia

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n ice dancer. With partner Alexandra Stepanova

Alexandra Stepanova

Alexandra Nikolaevna Stepanova is a Russian ice dancer. With partner Ivan Bukin, she is the 2010–2011 Junior Grand Prix Final bronze medalist.- Career :...

, he is the 2010–2011 Junior Grand Prix Final

2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

The 2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final is the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and the Junior Grand Prix Final competition of the 2010–2011 season...

 bronze medalist.

Career

Bukin started out in single skating but was asked to switch to ice dancing. He skated for a while with Elena Ilinykh

Elena Ilinykh

Elena Ruslanovna Ilinykh is a Russian ice dancer. With partner Nikita Katsalapov, she is the 2010 World Junior Champion, 2009 Junior Grand Prix Final silver medalist and 2011 Russian senior national bronze medalist.- Career :...

. Bukin was teamed with Stepanova in 2006 by coaches Irina Zhuk and Alexander Svinin

Alexander Svinin

Alexander Vasilievich Svinin is a former Soviet ice dancer who won silver at the 1983 European Championships with partner Olga Volozhinskaya. After retiring, he turned to coaching, together with his wife Irina Zhuk who is also a former ice dancer...

 and trains in Moscow.

Stepanova and Bukin debuted on the Junior Grand Prix series in the 2010–11

2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix

The 2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the fourteenth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the junior-level complement to the 2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which was for senior-level...

 season. They won both of their events and qualified for the Final

2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

The 2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final is the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and the Junior Grand Prix Final competition of the 2010–2011 season...

, where they won the bronze medal.

Stepanova and Bukin won both of their 2011–12 ISU Junior Grand Prix events, Romania and Italy, to qualify for the Final

2011–2012 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final

The 2011–2012 Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final will be the Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and the Junior Grand Prix Final competition of the 2011–2012 season...

.

Personal life

He is the son of 1988 Olympic ice dancing champion Andrei Bukin

Andrei Bukin

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. His mother, Elena Vasiuk, is also a former ice dancer. He began studying at Moscow's Institute of Physical Culture in 2010.

Programs

(with Stepanova)

Season	Short dance Short dance The short dance is a segment of an ice dancing competition. It was approved by the June 2010 International Skating Union congress and instituted beginning in the 2010–2011 figure skating season...	Free dance Free dance (figure skating) The free dance is a part of an ice dancing competition. It is the second part of the competition to be contested, after the short dance.-Structure and content:...	Exhibition
2011–2012	Caramelo La Colegiala	Live and Let Die Live and Let Die (song) "Live and Let Die" is the main theme song of the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die and was performed by Paul McCartney & Wings for the movie soundtrack and appears on the soundtrack album. The song was one of Wings' most successful singles, and the most successful Bond theme to that point...   by Paul McCartney Paul McCartney Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE, Hon RAM, FRCM is an English musician, singer-songwriter and composer. Formerly of The Beatles and Wings , McCartney is listed in Guinness World Records as the "most successful musician and composer in popular music history", with 60 gold discs and sales of 100...
2010–2011	Faust Waltz by Franz Liszt Franz Liszt Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age... Tanguera by Sexteto Mayor	The Pink Panther The Pink Panther (album) The Pink Panther is a 1963 album by Henry Mancini. It is a soundtrack from the film The Pink Panther. The retro cover art uses the image of the cartoon Pink Panther and incorporates mod elements such as the star above the I; this sets the tone for the music on the album.-Track listing:# "The Pink...   soundtrack by Henry Mancini Henry Mancini Henry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...
	Original dance Original dance The original dance was a segment of an ice dancing competition. It was usually the second of three programs, sandwiched between the compulsory dances and the free dance. Until 1994, it was known as the original set pattern dance...
2009–2010	Porushka-Paranya Bering Strait (album) Bering Strait is the self-titled debut album from the country music band Bering Strait.Early versions of the album did not have "When Going Home," but instead had two additional tracks...   by Bering Strait Bering Strait (band) Bering Strait was a country music band made up of musicians from Russia, that mixed country music with traditional Russian song making. Their style was sometimes called "redgrass"...	Kiss of Fire by Caterina Valente Caterina Valente Caterina Valente is a singer, dancer, and actress. She was born into an Italian artist family; her father Giuseppe was a well-known accordion player, her mother, Maria Valente, a musical clown...

Competitive highlights

(with Stepanova)

Event	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12
Russian Junior Championships Russian Figure Skating Championships The Russian Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of Russia. Skaters compete at the senior level in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.The first Russian national...		4th
Junior Grand Prix Final ISU Junior Grand Prix Final The ISU Junior Grand Prix Final is the culminating competition of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, which is a series of junior-level competitions organized by the International Skating Union...		3rd	TBD
Junior Grand Prix, Italy			1st
Junior Grand Prix, Romania			1st
Junior Grand Prix, France 2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix The 2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the fourteenth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the junior-level complement to the 2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which was for senior-level...		1st
Junior Grand Prix, Japan 2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix The 2010–2011 ISU Junior Grand Prix was the fourteenth season of the ISU Junior Grand Prix, a series of international junior level competitions organized by the International Skating Union. It was the junior-level complement to the 2010–2011 Grand Prix of Figure Skating, which was for senior-level...		1st
NRW Trophy NRW Trophy The NRW Trophy is an annual international figure skating competition organized by the Skating Union of North Rhine-Westphalia and since 2007, it has been sanctioned by the Deutsche Eislauf Union and the International Skating Union....	2nd J.
J. = Junior level

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