Gennadi Bondaruk

Gennadi Mikhailovich Bondaruk (Russian Геннадий Михайлович Бондарук; * July 7, 1965 in Brest, Byelorussian SSR ) is a retired Russian football player and current coach.

Life and career

Gennadi Bondaruk was born in 1965 in Brest in the Byelorussian SSR. As a teenager, he began playing football in Pizunda and later moved to a sport boarding school in Rostov -on-Don.

After finishing school he played in various unterklassigen clubs, including in nuclear Masch Wolgodonsk, Torpedo Taganrog and Dinamo Gagra.

Finally, the defender was committed in 1987 by Gurija Lantschchuti, where he spent his first season in the Wysschaja League, the highest Soviet league. In 1989 he moved to Dinamo Sukhumi, where he remained until 1990.

Then Bondaruk came to Zhemchuzhina Sochi, where he met his old teammate Roman Chagba. Bondaruk remained in Sochi to 1999, where he spent most of his career. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, and thus also their league system, his club played first class from the 1993 season.

For Zhemchuzhina he completed a total of 247 league games, which is an internal club record to this day. 1999 was compelled to pull down his club. For the 2000 season Bondaruk joined Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk, where he end his active career in 2001.

He then moved into coaching positions. In 2003 Bondaruk took over his old club Zhemchuzhina Sochi as assistant coach, an office he held by 2008 to 2009. From 2012 to 2013 he was the coach of Dynamo Barnaul.