Mykola Petrovych Pavlov () ( born 20 June 1954) is a Ukrainian former

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defender and manager. He is Merited Master of Sports of the USSR (1983) and Merited Coach of Ukraine.

Education

* Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Physical Culture * Higher School of Coaches (Moscow) (1986–87)

Playing career

Pavlov began his playing career in 1972, playing for "Spartak Brest", (later renamed "Bug Brest", now FC Dinamo Brest) in the

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. The club played in the old

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. After three years there he moved to Krylia Sovetov, a club in the

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. Four seasons and three years later, in 1979 he moved back to Belarusian SSR to play for their best team in the Soviet Top League, Dinamo Minsk. Another 3 years later, in 1982 he was on the move again, this time back to Ukraine to play in

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for Chernomorets Odesa. The following season he moved to Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. His two seasons there were the most successful of his career. He became the

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champion in

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, and won the bronze medal the following year (

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International career

Pavlov was capped once for the

. He played in a 2–1 friendly loss against

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, on 28 March 1984 in Hanover.

Coaching career

In 1988 Pavlov took up the head-coach position of Kolos Nikopol. During the 1990s he coached Tavriya Simferopol, Krystal Kherson, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk. While coach of Dnipro he was brought on to be the caretaker head-coach of the

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. In the 1995–96 season Pavlov was coach of

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, leading them to a Ukrainian League title. Following Dynamo he has coached other Ukrainian clubs, including a return to Tavriya Simferopol, then at FC Illychivets Mariupol (7 years there), and FC Stal Alchevsk. In the winter of 2007 he was brought in as head-coach at

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. In his first season with the team he led them to an 8th-place finish, and into the quarter-finals of

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. On 2 February 2017 Pavlov announced that he retired from coaching career.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

* Soviet Top League Champion:

* Soviet Top League Bronze:

Coach

* Ukrainian Premier League Champion: 1994–95 * Ukrainian Cup Champion:

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

Orders and special awards

* Knight of the Order "For merits": 2009Order of President of Ukraine № 729/2009

References

External links

Brief biography

Profile on Odesa Football
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pavlov, Mykola 1954 births Living people Footballers from Kyiv Ukrainian men's footballers Soviet men's footballers Men's association football defenders Soviet Union men's international footballers FC Dynamo Brest players PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara players FC Dinamo Minsk players FC Chornomorets Odesa players FC Dnipro players Soviet Top League players Soviet football managers Ukrainian football managers Ukraine national football team managers FC Elektrometalurh Nikopol managers SC Tavriya Simferopol managers FC Krystal Kherson managers FC Dnipro managers FC Dynamo Kyiv managers FC Mariupol managers FC Stal Alchevsk managers FC Vorskla Poltava managers Chevaliers of the Order of Merit (Ukraine) Ukrainian Premier League managers Higher School of Coaches alumni Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR FC Livyi Bereh Kyiv 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen