Volodymyr Pianykh (5 February 1951) is an

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

er from the former

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who played for

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. After retiring as a player, Pianykh became a football referee. In 1979 Pianykh played couple of games for

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at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR. Pianykh was a referee at the 1994 FIFA World Cup qualification match between Finland and Israel that took place on 16 June 1993 in Lahti,

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