Yevhen Kucherevskyi

Yevhen Kucherevskyi

Personal information
Full name	Yevhen Mefodiyovych Kucherevskyi Evgeny Mefodyevich Kucherevsky
Date of birth	(1941-08-06)6 August 1941
Place of birth	Kherson, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Date of death
Place of death	Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1958-1961	Spartak Kherson	?	(?)
1962-1965	SCA Odessa	?	(?)
1965-1970	Sudostroitel Nikolaev	?	(?)
Managerial career
1981-1983	Kolos Nikopol
1984-1985	Evis Nikolaev
1987-1992	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
1992	Étoile Sportive du Sahel
1992-1993	Russia (U-19)
1993-1994	Russia (olympic)
1994-1996	SC Mykolaiv
1997-1999	FC Arsenal Tula
2000	Rotor Volgograd
2000-2001	Torpedo-ZIL Moscow
2001-2005	Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yevhen Mefodiyovych Kucherevskyi (Ukrainian: Євген Мефодiйoвич Кучеревський, Russian: Евгений Мефодьевич Кучеревский) (6 August 1941 – 26 August 2006) was a Ukrainian football coach. He is most famous for his spells managing Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, which, under his helm, won the Soviet Championship in 1988, took 2nd place twice in 1987 and 1989, as well as the USSR Cup in 1989. Dnipro's recent success in the first half of the 2000s is mostly attributed to his coaching as well.

On 26 August 2006, Kucherevskyi's Mercedes-Benz suffered a head-on collision with a KAMAZ truck. The much respected coach died an hour and half later in a hospital, without regaining consciousness.

Upon Kucherevskyi's funeral, the Dnipropetrovsk mayor, Ivan Kulichenko, announced the plan to name one of the city streets to the celebrated coach.

References

• (Russian)/(Ukrainian) Aleksey Dospekhov, The creator of Dnipropetrovs phenomenon died, Kommersant, 28 August 2006, reprinted at Korrespondent.net in Russian and in Ukrainian.
• (Russian) Ivan Krasikov, Aleksey Dospekhov, A man who did not like to concede (obituary), Kommersant, 25 August 2006
• (Russian) Ivan Krasikov, The street in Dnipropetrovsk will be named to Kucherevsky, Kommersant, 28 August 2006