Viktor Bulatov

Viktor Gennadyevich Bulatov (Russian: Виктор Геннадьевич Булатов; born 22 January 1972) is a Russian football coach and a former Russian international football player. He is the manager of Dynamo Kirov.

Viktor Bulatov

Personal information
Full name	Viktor Gennadyevich Bulatov
Date of birth	(1972-01-22) 22 January 1972 (age 53)
Place of birth	Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Dynamo Kirov (manager)
Youth career
	SDYuShOR-3 Chelyabinsk
	FShM Moscow
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1990	Zvezda Moscow	8	(0)
1990–1992	Volgar Astrakhan	94	(17)
1993	Dimitrovgrad	19	(17)
1994	Kirovets-Torpedo Kopeysk
1994	Dynamo Stavropol	14	(3)
1995–1997	Krylia Sovetov Samara	87	(12)
1998	Torpedo Moscow	30	(9)
1999–2001	Spartak Moscow	87	(7)
2002–2003	Krylia Sovetov Samara	38	(0)
2004–2005	Terek Grozny	51	(1)
2006–2007	Alania Vladivkavkaz	38	(2)
2007	Sibir Novosibirsk	0	(0)
2007–2008	Astana	11	(0)
2008	SKA-Energia Khabarovsk	15	(0)
2009	Torpedo Moscow	8	(1)
Total		526	(81)
International career
1998–2001	Russia	6	(0)
Managerial career
2008	SKA-Energia Khabarovsk (assistant)
2008	Nika Moscow (youth team)
2009	Nika Moscow
2009	Chernomorets Novorossiysk (assistant)
2010–2012	Dnepr Smolensk
2012	Khimki (assistant)
2012–2014	Zenit Penza
2014–2015	Arsenal Tula (reserves)
2015–2016	Arsenal Tula
2016–2017	Torpedo Moscow
2018	Chayka Peschanokopskoye
2018–2020	Spartak-2 Moscow
2020	Krasny
2021	Khimik Dzerzhinsk
2021–2022	Noah
2022–2023	Chelyabinsk
2023–	Dynamo Kirov
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Gennadyevich and the family name is Bulatov.

Playing career

Bulatov spent the prime years of his career at Spartak Moscow. Apart from Spartak, Bulatov played for various Russian clubs, including Torpedo Moscow, Terek Grozny, Alania Vladikavkaz and had two spells at Krylia Sovetov.
In summer 2007 as an experienced player he moved to Kazakh champions Astana^[2] to strengthen the club in its forthcoming Champions League journey.

On international level, Bulatov made his debut for Russia national football team in a 1998 friendly match defeat to Brazil and played his last game in 2001, against Greece.

Honours

Player

• Russian Premier League 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, who lost in the final to FC Terek Grozny, for which he was playing at the time).

Manager

• Russian Second League Division B Zone 4 winner: 2024.

European club competitions

• UEFA Champions League 1999–2000 with FC Spartak Moscow: 7 games, 1 goal.
• UEFA Cup 1999–2000 with FC Spartak Moscow: 2 games.
• UEFA Champions League 2000–01 with FC Spartak Moscow: 8 games.
• UEFA Champions League 2001–02 with FC Spartak Moscow: 6 games.
• UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002 with FC Krylia Sovetov Samara: 4 games.
• UEFA Cup 2004–05 with FC Terek Grozny: 4 goals.

External links

• Viktor Bulatov at National-Football-Teams.com
• Bio at Rusteam (in Russian)