Career
Born in Moscow, he played in the youth and reserves team of Football Club Dynamo Moscow between 1999 and 2006. In February 2009 he moved abroad and joined FK Radnički 1923 in the Serbian First League playing with them during the second half of the 2008-2009 season and the 2009-2010 season in which the club used the name FK Šumadija Radnički during the first part of the season after a merger with another local club In early 2012 Dmitri Shikhovtsev joined Football Club Saturn Moscow Oblast playing in the Russian Second Division.