1994 Russian Second League Explained

Competition:	Russian Second League
Season:	1994
Prevseason:	1993
Nextseason:	1995

The 1994 Russian Second League was the third edition of Russian Second Division. There were 4 zones with 62 teams starting the competition in total (5 of them were excluded before the end of the season).

Zone West

Overview

Team	Head coach
FC Fakel Voronezh	Sergei Savchenkov
FC Kolos Krasnodar	Aleksandr Ploshnik (until September) Fyodor Novikov (from October)
PFC Spartak Nalchik	Yuri Naurzokov
FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo	Vladimir Belkov
FC Spartak Anapa	Aleksandr Averyanov (until May) Akop Kalandzhan (from June)
FC Kuban Krasnodar	Leonid Nazarenko
FC Metallurg Lipetsk	Boris Streltsov
FC Lokomotiv St. Petersburg	Lev Burchalkin (until October)
FC Torpedo Taganrog	Vladimir Novik (until May) Anatoly Bulgakov (from May)
FC Anzhi Makhachkala	Akhmed Aleskerov (until June) Rafael Safarov (from June)
FC Vympel Rybinsk	Vladimir Bubnov
FC Kavkazkabel Prokhladny	Sergei Ponomaryov
FC Salyut Belgorod	Aleksandr Kryukov (until July) Anatoli Bogdanov (from July)
FC Trion-Volga Tver	Andrei Sergeyev
FC Dynamo Vologda	Vadim Ivanov (until May) Vladimir Pavlenko (from May)
FC Avangard-Kortek Kolomna	Mark Tunis
FC Iriston Vladikavkaz	Aleksandr Katsiyev
FC Venets Gulkevichi	Anatoli Lyz
FC Orekhovo Orekhovo-Zuyevo	Vladimir Yermichev (until May) Yuri Karamyan (from May)
FC Dynamo Makhachkala	Kamach Kabayev
FC Terek Grozny	Anatoli Mikheyev
FC Erzi Petrozavodsk	Vladimir Pronin (until May) Anatoli Zinchenko (May to July)

Standings

Top goalscorers

29 goals

• Aslan Goplachev (PFC Spartak Nalchik)
• Igor Tikhonov (FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo)

24 goals

• Konstantin Kovalenko (FC Kolos Krasnodar)

22 goals

• Aleksandr Khalzov (FC Metallurg Lipetsk)
• Eduard Kugotov (PFC Spartak Nalchik)

19 goals

• Aleksandr Zernov (FC Tekstilshchik Ivanovo)

17 goals

• Vladimir Zinich (FC Fakel Voronezh)

16 goals

• Ihar Fralow (FC Kolos Krasnodar)
• Aleksei Gerasimenko (FC Kuban Krasnodar)

15 goals

• Yuri Vostrukhin (FC Torpedo Taganrog)

Zone Center

Overview

Team	Head coach
FC Torpedo Volzhsky	Oleg Dudarin
FC Torpedo Arzamas	Vladimir Dergach
FC Gazovik-Gazprom Izhevsk	Aleksandr Salnov
FC Torpedo Ryazan	Sergei Nedosekin
FC Metallurg Novotroitsk	Oleg Alemastsev
FC Lada Dimitrovgrad	Vladimir Yurin
FC Zvezda Gorodishche	Sergei Mukovnin
FC Uralets Nizhny Tagil	Igor Kuznetsov
FC Arsenal Tula	Aleksei Petrushin
FC Torpedo Miass	Viktor Lukashenko
FC Metallurg Magnitogorsk	Viktor Sokolovskiy
FC Svetotekhnika Saransk	Vladimir Solovyov
FC Devon Oktyabrsky	Viktor Khaydarov
FC Vyatka Kirov	Aleksandr Sokovnin
FC Rubin Kazan	Murat Zadikashvili
FC Obninsk	Boris Sinitsyn
FC Druzhba Yoshkar-Ola	Vladimir Petrov
FC Irgiz Balakovo	Vladimir Proskurin

Standings

Top goalscorers

20 goals

• Oleg Umurzakov (FC Torpedo Volzhsky)

16 goals

• Aleksei Chernov (FC Zvezda Gorodishche)
• Eduard Novozhilov (FC Torpedo Arzamas)

15 goals

• Sergei Budarin (FC Metallurg Novotroitsk)

14 goals

• Mikhail Belov (FC Torpedo Volzhsky)

13 goals

• Igor Syrov (FC Devon Oktyabrsky)

12 goals

• Robert Gay (FC Torpedo Miass)
• Andrei Knyazev (FC Metallurg Magnitogorsk)

11 goals

• Sergei Ilyushin (FC Torpedo Volzhsky)

10 goals

• Andrei Ivanov (FC Gazovik-Gazprom Izhevsk)
• Anatoli Kanishchev (FC Torpedo Arzamas)
• Igor Safonov (FC Metallurg Novotroitsk)

Zone Siberia

Overview

Team	Head coach
FC Chkalovets Novosibirsk	Leonid Shevchenko
FC Tom Tomsk	Vladimir Pomeshchikov
FC Kuzbass Kemerovo	Sergei Bologov
FC Dynamo Barnaul	Stanislav Kaminskiy
FC Irtysh Tobolsk	Rudolf Atamalyan
FC Torpedo Rubtsovsk	Vladimir Vorzhev
FC Metallurg Novokuznetsk	Valeri Suldin
FC Dynamo Omsk	Anatoli Chikinskiy
FC Motor Prokopyevsk	Vitali Golopolosov
FC Samotlor-XXI Nizhnevartovsk	Yuri Kurnenin
FC Shakhtyor Kiselyovsk	Anatoli Kuznetsov
FC Politekhnik-92 Barnaul	Aleksandr Zakhryapin
FC Agan Raduzhny	Aleksandr Umrikhin

Standings

Top goalscorers

18 goals

• Ruslan Akhidzhak (FC Tom Tomsk)
• Anatoli Kisurin (FC Dynamo Omsk)

13 goals

• Sergei Chernov (FC Metallurg Novokuznetsk)

12 goals

• Oleg Nikulin (FC Chkalovets Novosibirsk)

11 goals

• Yevgeni Zarva (FC Irtysh Tobolsk)

9 goals

• Yevgeni Shipovskiy (FC Torpedo Rubtsovsk)
• Vladimir Tregub (FC Torpedo Rubtsovsk)

8 goals

• Andrei Bazankov (FC Kuzbass Kemerovo)
• Sergei Galkin (FC Chkalovets Novosibirsk)

7 goals

• Yevgeni Kultayev (FC Shakhtyor Kiselyovsk)
• Vladimir Makeyev (FC Chkalovets Novosibirsk)
• Viktor Sebelev (FC Tom Tomsk)

Zone East

Overview

Team	Head coach
FC Dynamo Yakutsk	Anatoli Samkov
FC Angara Angarsk	Oleg Izmaylov
FC Sakhalin Kholmsk	Valeri Yerkovich
FC Metallurg Krasnoyarsk	Aleksandr Kishinyovskiy
FC Amur Blagoveshchensk	Rudolf Mkrtychev
FC SKA Khabarovsk	Vladimir Bychek
FC Kristall Neryungri	Viktor Kurlyuk
FC Avtomobilist Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk	Vyacheslav Mordasov
FC Amur Komsomolsk-na-Amure	Oleg Manzhukov

Standings

Top goalscorers

34 goals

• Vladislav Kadyrov (FC Sakhalin Kholmsk)

21 goals

• Vadim Belokhonov (FC Metallurg Krasnoyarsk)

20 goals

• Andrei Korovin (FC SKA Khabarovsk)

19 goals

• Yuri Kuznetsov (FC Angara Angarsk)

13 goals

• Denis Laktionov (FC Sakhalin Kholmsk)

11 goals

• Vitali Fedenko (FC Metallurg Krasnoyarsk)
• Aleksandr Kharasakhal (FC Dynamo Yakutsk)
• Igor Khimushkin (FC Dynamo Yakutsk)
• Viktor Rybakov (FC Sakhalin Kholmsk)

10 goals

• Mikhail Semyonov (FC SKA Khabarovsk)

Promotion playoffs

Winners of zones Siberia and East played a home-and-away series for promotion to the 1995 Russian First League.

FC Chkalovets Novosibirsk lost to FC Dynamo Yakutsk in Yakutsk 1:2, won 2:0 in Novosibirsk and were promoted on goal difference.

See also

• 1994 Russian Top League
• 1994 Russian First League
• 1994 Russian Third League