Aneliya Andreevna trained me in Tashkent before I moved to Kazakhstan, and then, when I returned, I went back to her. I love her a lot: she put in so much effort to make a real gymnast out of me.

I used to travel a lot with her to competitions. I think she was the first to see that I had what it took to become a good gymnast. At that difficult moment when my family was faced with the hard choice of whether to leave the country or continue with sport it was Aneliya Andreevna who advised me to go and show Viner what I could do: “If you really have talent, Viner is bound to take you on and then you should continue with your gymnastics”.