Oleksandr Polovkov (; born 4 October 1979 in Sverdlovsk,

Voroshylovhrad Oblast Luhansk Oblast (; ), also referred to as Luhanshchyna (), is the easternmost oblast (province) of Ukraine. Its administrative center is the city of Luhansk. The oblast was established in 1938 and bore the name ''Voroshilovgrad Oblast'' until 1 ...

Ukrainian SSR The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkrSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the Republics of the Soviet Union, constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. ...

Soviet Union The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until Dissolution of the Soviet ...

) is a

professional A professional is a member of a profession or any person who work (human activity), works in a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the partic ...

Ukrainian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

defender who played for different clubs in the

Ukrainian Premier League The Ukrainian Premier League ( ) or UPL is a professional association football league in Ukraine and the highest level of the Ukrainian football league system. Originally known as the Vyshcha Liha ( , ) it was formed in 1991 during the 1992 in ...

. He last played for

FC Shakhtar Sverdlovsk Shakhtar Sverdlovsk () was a professional Ukrainian football club based in Luhansk oblast's Sverdlovsk city (Dovzhansk). The club competed in the Ukrainian Second League but was suspended after the 2013–14 amid the Russian aggression against ...

prior to the suspension of club activities due to the

annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine, and then annexed it. This took place in the relative power vacuum immediately following the Revolution of Dignity. It marked the beginning of the Russ ...

. On 8 August 2015 he played for LNR football team.

References

External links

Official Website Profile

Official FFU Website Profile
1979 births Living people People from Sverdlovsk Ukrainian men's footballers PFC Shakhtar Sverdlovsk players FC Stal Alchevsk players FC Stal-2 Alchevsk players FC Zorya Luhansk players PFC Navbahor Namangan players Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Uzbekistan Men's association football defenders Footballers from Luhansk Oblast 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen {{Ukraine-footy-defender-1970s-stub