Alexey Stakhanov - legendary founder of the miner's movement, who gave the first name to the team - Stakhanovets
Nikolay Naumov - organizer, first coach and captain of the team
Stakhanovets - 1938
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The first USSR league allowed 27 teams to participate in four groups: А, B, C, D.
The USSR Sports Committee let a miners' team from Donbass appeare in Group C. The team was proudly called Stakhanovets after the famous innovator of miners' movement Alexey Stakhanov.
The core players of the team came from Dynamo Gorlovka and Stalino. Stakhanovets played their first match for Ukrainian Premiership on May 12, 1936 in Gorlovka at Balitsky stadium. FC Dinamo Odessa turned to be their rivals. 15 000 fans attended the event. Donetk's squad included: goalkeeper - Sergey Razdorozhniuk, defenders - Mikhail Boychenko, Georgiy Konstantinovsky, midfielders - Pavel Yevtekhov, Konstantin Pashenko, Bespalov, forwards - Adam Korotynsky, Mykhailo Pashenko, Nikolay Naumov, Fedor Manov, Boris Terentyev. Konstantyn Pashenko headed to breake the deadlock on the 10th min after a pass by Boris Terentyev. But Peter Kalshnykov, a foward from Odessa, leveled the score in 5 min. and pushed forward then. The final score was - 2:3. Stakhanovets played their first official match against another Dinamo in Kazan having lost 1:4 (Fedor Manov was the only scorer of Donetsk that time).
Having signed the best players of Donbass, Stakhanovets got the right to be among the top-clubs in 1938. Press and football specialists ranked high Donbass players, though they occupied 11-12 position in the league standings. 1940 results allowed Nikolay Kuznetsov, Nikolay Kononenko, Georgiy Mazanov, Georgiy Bikezin, Grigoriy Balaba to be nominated "Master of Sports".
Stakhanovets was fifth in the USSR League, when World War II broke out. June 1941 is a special period in club's history. Stakhanovets beat the champion club FC Dinamo Moskva, Minsk and the second club from Moscow. and on June 24, two days after the war started, they lost home to Traktor.
Many players joined the army, some worked in the military plants. Ivan Ustinov, Ivan Putyatov, Vladimir Shkurov Ivan Gorobets and Mykhailo Vasin fell in battle.
On September 8, 1943, Donetsk was released from the German occupation and two months later Georgiy Bikezin organized the first after-war match.
In 1945 only three players from the pre-war squad survived - Bikezin, Kuznetsov and Yurchenko. The team had to be re-organized from nothing. That's why Stakhanovets, despite having success in 1945, was included into the second group. New players - Zhukov, Shpinev, Bryushyn, Andrenko and Livetntsev. |
