Zolotov, Nikolai Alexandrovich

He began his career in the double “ Vitebsk ”. After the departure of the Vitebsk club from the Premier League following the results of the 2011 season and the dissolution of the double, he continued his career at the Vitebsk-2 farm club, where he was confidently entrenched in the base.

At the end of the 2012 season , he and his teammate Evgeny Lebedev moved to Soligorsk Shakhtar . In the 2013 season, he played for the Pitmen's double, which he helped to win in the championship of the backup squads. The next season, he began to occasionally appear on the bench in the main team, but never appeared on the field.

In February 2015, together with Evgeny Lebedev, Vitebsk was leased until the end of the season ^[1] . In the Vitebsk club immediately declared himself as a player of the main team. On April 11, 2015 he made his debut in the Premier League in the match against Mikashevichy “ Granite ” (1: 1).

In January 2016, after returning from a lease, he joined the main team of Shakhtar ^[2] . Preparing for the season with the main Salihorsk team, but in April Vitebsk was again leased ^[3] . In the 2016 season, he played for the main squad of Vitebsk, alternating outlets in the starting squad and for replacement.

In January 2017, he returned from lease to Salihorsk ^[4] , but soon the Vitebsk residents agreed with Shakhtar and finalized the defender’s transition ^[5] . In the first half of the 2017 season, he did not have a solid place at the base, and since September, he was fixed in the starting lineup.

On August 13, 2014 he made his debut for the youth team of Belarus in a friendly match against Moldova .