Career
Started biathlon - 1980. Finished his career in professional sport in 2006, going to the post of
youth team coach of Belarusian biathlon. After the refusal of the Russian
leadership team and the National Federation include him in the squad for the
2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City was seriously considering the proposals
received to move to another team. A longtime friend Drachev still on the Soviet
national team Alexander Popov made on behalf of Belarus, the proposal to move
the team of that country, which Vladimir adopted in 2002. Until 2002 he served in the
Russian Armed Forces, retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel. Since 2006,
stopped the performance. August 1st, 2006 at the Olympic Sports Complex
"Raubichi" (Belarus) took his departure from the sport, along with
other well-known artists of biathlon: Alena Zubrilova, Oleg and Vadim
Ryzhenkova Sashurinym. At the present time - Chairman of the Board of Directors
of the newly created "Sportinvestbanka" (p. Murino). On April 25,
2011 "Sportinvestbank" renamed to Limited Liability Company
"LENOBLBANK" registered at address: 188662, Leningrad Region,
Vsevolozhsk district, Murino, st. Central, 46, as the bank opened in March and
April 2011 three operating offices in St. Petersburg. In the season of 2010 he
was invited to Team Russia's biathlon as a consultant. In this role, came into
conflict with head coach V.Barnashovym, gave candid interviews to the press on
the coaching staff, with the result that was removed from his position.
Maintains a regular blog about the biathlon site Eurosport.ru Married with a
son, Ilya. His wife and son live in St. Petersburg.
