Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1955, i toa a Persiantsev i te taitara a motu i mua o Oleg Simantovsky me Lev Mikhailov. I te tau e whai ake nei, ko ia te mema o te kapa Soviet tuatahi ki te whakataetae i te European Figure Skating Championship <unk> te
1956 Pākehā i Paris <unk> me te whakanoho teitei, 12th, o nga Soviet e toru i roto i nga tangata takitahi. Ka haere ia ki te whakataetae i nga putanga e toru o muri mai o te kaupapa, ka mutu i te 13 i te 1957 (Vienna, Austria), 16 i te 1958 (Bratislava, Czechoslovakia), me te 14 i te 1959 (Davos, Switzerland).