Leonid Ivanovich Tkachenko (russian: Леонид Иванович Ткаченко; born 1 October 1953) is a Ukrainian-Russian
football
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coach and a former
Soviet
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player. He is an assistant coach with
FC Baltika Kaliningrad
FC Baltika is an association football club based in Kaliningrad, Russia. Currently the club plays in the Russian First League, the second tier of the Russian football pyramid.
History
The club was founded on 22 December 1954 as ''Pishchevik Kalin ...
.
Career
Tkachenko spent most of his career playing for
FC Metallist Kharkiv, leading the club to promotion from the
Soviet First League
The Soviet First League in football (russian: Первая лига СССР по футболу) was the second highest division of Soviet football,Evgeni Kazakov. The Soviet First Football League (Первая лига СССР по футбо ...
to the
Soviet Top League
The Soviet Top League, known after 1970 as the Higher League (russian: Чемпионат СССР по футболу: Высшая лига), served as the top division of Soviet Union football from 1936 until 1991.
The professional top level ...
in 1981.
Together with
Mykola Pavlov
Mykola Petrovych Pavlov ( uk, Микола Петрович Павлов) (russian: Николай Петрович Павлов; born 20 June 1954 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a former Ukrainian football defender, and former head-coach of Illyc ...
served as an interim coach for
Ukraine national football team
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when it contested
Belarus
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in a friendly against the
Belarus national football team
The Belarus national football team ( be, Зборная Беларусі па футболе, Zbornaja Biełarusi pa futbole; russian: Сборная Беларуси по футболу, Sbornaya Belarusi po futbolu) represents Belarus in inte ...
. He and Pavlov were assistant coaches to
Viktor Prokopenko
Viktor Prokopenko ( uk, Віктор Прокопенко) (24 October 1944 – 18 August 2007) was a Ukrainian football (soccer) player and coach who played in GDR and Ukrainian SSR including teams of the Soviet Top League and later worked a ...
before then. Sometime in 2000, he relocated to the Russian Federation and obtained Russian citizenship.
Honours
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Russian Second Division
The Russian Second League (russian: Первенство России II дивизиона ФНЛ), formerly Russian Professional Football League is the third level of Russian professional football (soccer), football.
History
In 1998–2010, it ...
Zone West best manager: 2005.
References
1953 births
Living people
People from Kirovske Raion
Soviet footballers
Ukrainian football managers
Ukraine national football team managers
FC Metalist Kharkiv players
FC Baltika Kaliningrad players
FC Metalist Kharkiv managers
FC Temp Shepetivka managers
FC Baltika Kaliningrad managers
FC Sokol Saratov managers
FC Anzhi Makhachkala managers
FC Dynamo Saint Petersburg managers
Russian Premier League managers
Russian football managers
Ukrainian Premier League managers
Merited Coaches of Ukraine
Association football defenders
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