Oleg Aleksandrovich Oshenkov (russian: Ошенков, Олег Александрович; 27 May 1911 – 1 January 1976) was a Soviet

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player and

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. Merited Master of Sports of USSR (1953) Born in the Russian capital,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, Oshenkov spent all of his playing career in the city, while most of it playing for

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. As coach and manager, he worked with several clubs, including

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and Shakhtar. In 1956 along with Anton Idzkovsky, Oshenkov was a head coach of the

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at the Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.Football at the Summer Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR
/ref> From 1971 through 1975 he chaired the Football Federation of Ukrainian SSR.

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