Education
A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv.
A Russian-born Kalitvintsev chose to play for the Ukraine side after breaking through as a midfielder for Dynamo Kyiv.
Master of Sports, International Class (1988). He last managed a Russian Premier League side Football Club Volga Nizhny Novgorod. Kalitvintsev coached Ukraine U-19 to victory during the 2009 Union of European Football Associations European Under-19 Football Championship.
Though born in Russia, Kalitvintsev became a naturalized Ukrainian after a spell with Dynamo Kyiv.
Until 1994 he played he spent his playing career at Russian clubs such as Football Club Rotor Volgograd, Football Club SKA Rostov-on-Don, Football Club Dynamo Moscow, and Football Club Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod. lieutenant wasn"t until the reorganization of the soviet football when he started to play at the top level of the Russian championship starting for the Moscow"s Dynamo.
After being transferred to the fading club of Nizhniy Novgorod soon he was offered opportunity from the Ukrainian football giant, Dynamo, which he did not refuse playing alongside such players as Andriy Shevchenko, Serhiy Rebrov, Vitaliy Kosovskyi, and others Kalitvintsev was named Ukrainian Football player of the Year in 1995.
In 1998, Kalitvintsev earned a paid transfer to play for Trabzonspor in Turkey, returning to play for CSKA Kyiv to finish his playing career in 2000.
Kalitvintsev earned 22 caps for the Ukrainian national football team He scored only one goal, but a very important one against the group favorites, Croatia, at Republican Stadium in Kiev on 11 June 1995 during qualification to the Euro 1996. Following his retirement, Kalitvintsev coached Football Club Zakarpattia Uzhhorod for several years.
He was the coach of Football Club Dynamo-2 Kyiv in 2006-2010.
In January 2013 Kalitvintsev was appointed the head coach of Football Club Volga Nizhny Novgorod returning to Nizhniy Novgorod after almost 20 years when he played for Lokomotiv Nizhniy Novgorod. Kalitvintsev was a coach of several junior Ukraine national football teams that played in tournaments for U-19 and U-17 players.
Kalitvintsev was appointed as assistant of head coach Myron Markevych of Ukraine"s national football team early February 2010. After Markevych resignation of late August 2010 Kalitvintsev was appointed Ukraine"s caretaker manager on 25 August 2010.
On 21 April 2011 Oleh Blokhin was (again) appointed head coach of the Ukrainian national team
Kalitvintsev stayed on as Blokhin"s assistant.
