Pavel Aleksandrovich Yakovenko
Main coach
Metallurg Nikopol / 1994-95
Uralan / 1996-97, 1999
Youth national team of Ukraine / 1999-00
Khimki / 2005
Kuban / 2006 - April 2007
Pavel Yakovenko, who played in Dynamo Kyiv under the leadership of Valery Lobanovsky, inherited in many respects his coaching style - rational play, ball control, pressure and bet on excellent physical shape due to increased loads. Having made his debut as a coach at Nikopol Metallurg, Yakovenko moved to Elista and a few years later brought Uralan to the Premier League. The debut in the elite did not work out - five defeats in a row and not a single goal scored became the reason for his early resignation. From that moment, Yakovenko almost stopped giving interviews, limiting himself to press conferences.
Having moved to his homeland, Yakovenko led two junior national teams of Ukraine, one of which made its way to the 2005 World Cup. However, in the process of preparation, the coach unexpectedly left both posts for the post of the steering “Khimki”, whose president was then Andrey Chervichenko. Despite the enhanced training regimen (up to four times a day), Yakovenko could not bring Khimki to the Premier League, and lost to CSKA in the Russian Cup final. The following season, he headed the “Kuban”, inviting there several leading players of the Moscow Region club - Ivanov, Yanbaev, Asildarov, and later Danishevsky.
“Kuban” reached the Premier League, taking second place in the first division. The first five matches in the elite were better for Yakovenko's club than in 1999 (3 draws, 2 defeats, goal difference 4: 6), but his team never won and took the last line of the tournament table. The newspaper Blik predicts the imminent appointment of Yakovenko as a coach of one of the teams of the Ukrainian Major League.
Leonid Vasilyevich Nazarenko
Main coach
Kuban / 1993-94
"Ministry of Emergencies-Selyatino" / 1995-97
"Torpedo Victoria" / 1998-99
"Irtysh" Pavlodar / 2001
Dynamo Makhachkala / 2002-03
Kuban / 2004
Spartak-MZhK Ryazan / 2005-06
Dynamo Makhachkala / September 2006 - April 2007
Leonid Nazarenko began to train during the USSR Championship - he was the main in the Khabarovsk SKA, and most of the time he spent as an assistant coach in Moscow CSKA. In 1998, he brought the Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo-Victoria into the first division; achieved the same result in 2003 with Dynamo Makhachkala. In 2004, for three matches, he served as the head coach of the Krasnodar Kuban, who played in the Premier League. Before being appointed to Ryazan, Spartak-MZHK completed an internship at Chelsea and received a European coaching license in the Pro category.