Gorshkov was born on 8 October 1946. He began skating at age six after his mother heard that the Sokolniki skating school was taking new students. He was moved to the weakest group after a year but his mother brought him to a stronger one when a new coach took over.
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Gorshkov married his partner, Pakhomova, in 1970. They share one a child, a daughter Yulia, born in 1977. They remained married until Pakhomova’s death in 1986 and there is not much information about Yulia Gorshkova
Yulia’s mother Pakhomova, was the daughter of Alexei Pakhomov, an aviation general. She began figure skating at age seven when her grandmother brought her to the Children and Youth Sports School by the Young Pioneers Stadium in Moscow.
Her first ice dancing partner was the nine-years-older Viktor Ryzhkin, formerly her coach, with whom she trained at CSKA Moscow under Stanislav Zhuk.
They were six-time World Champions (1970–74, 1976), as well as six-time European champions (1970–71, 1973–76), which makes them the most decorated of all-time at both events in the pair discipline.