Viktor Gennadyevich Bulatov (; born 22 January 1972) is a Russian football coach and a former

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

international

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player. He is the manager of Dynamo Kirov.

Playing career

Bulatov spent the prime years of his career at Spartak Moscow. Apart from Spartak, Bulatov played for various

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n clubs, including

Torpedo Moscow Football Club Torpedo Moscow (, ''FK Torpedo Moskva''), known as Torpedo Moscow, is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Moscow. The club will return to the Russian Premier League in the 2025–26 season. Their c ...

, Terek Grozny,

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and had two spells at Krylia Sovetov.
In summer 2007 as an experienced player he moved to Kazakh champions

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"Bylatov moves to Astana" from Goal.com to strengthen the club in its forthcoming Champions League journey. On international level, Bulatov made his debut for

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in a 1998 friendly match defeat to

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and played his last game in 2001, against

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Honours

Player

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; , ''Rossiyskaya premyer-liga''; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is a professional association football league in Russia and the highest level of the Russian football league system. It was establis ...

champion: 1999, 2000, 2001. * Russian Cup winner: 2004. * Russian Cup finalist: 2004 (played in the early stages of the 2003/04 competition for

FC Krylia Sovetov Samara PFC Krylia Sovetov Samara () is a Russian professional football club based in Samara that plays in the Russian Premier League. In 2004, they finished third in the Russian Premier League. History Krylia Sovetov was founded in Kuybyshev (now Sama ...

, who lost in the final to

FC Terek Grozny Republican Football Club Akhmat (; ), commonly known as Akhmat Grozny, and formerly as Terek Grozny from 1958 to 2017, is a Russian professional football club based in Grozny that plays in the Russian Premier League. History The club was foun ...

, for which he was playing at the time).

Manager

Russian Second League The Russian Second League (), formerly the Russian Professional Football League, are both the third (Division A) and fourth level (Division B) of Russian professional Association football, football. History In 1998–2010, it was run by the :ru: ...

Division B Zone 4 winner: 2024.

European club competitions

UEFA Champions League 1999–2000 The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; ; ) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs football, futsal and beach football in Europe and the transcontinental countries of Turkey, Azerbaijan, ...

with

FC Spartak Moscow FC Spartak Moscow (, ) is a Russian professional association football, football club based in Moscow. Having won 12 Soviet Top League, Soviet championships (second only to FC Dynamo Kyiv, Dynamo Kyiv) and 10 Russian Premier League, Russian champ ...

: 7 games, 1 goal. * UEFA Cup 1999–2000 with FC Spartak Moscow: 2 games. *

UEFA Champions League 2000–01 The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; ; ) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs football, futsal and beach football in Europe and the transcontinental countries of Turkey, Azerbaijan, ...

with FC Spartak Moscow: 8 games. * UEFA Champions League 2001–02 with FC Spartak Moscow: 6 games. * UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002 with

: 4 games. *

UEFA Cup 2004–05 The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; ; ) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs football, futsal and beach football in Europe and the transcontinental countries of Turkey, Azerbaijan, ...

with

: 4 goals.

External links

*
Bio at Rusteam

References

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