Couple of games Shakhov managed to play for his main club Dnipro, but in 1996 he first to Kremenchuk and later Israel.
Until 2000 Shakhov was returning to Ukraine on occasions and going back to Russia playing for lower league clubs in both countries.
With a short stop in Lutsk, in 2001 he moved to Ivano-Frankivsk spending there few years.
Sometime in 2005 Shakhov moved to Crimea where he retired and remained with the newly organized FC Zhemchuzhyna Yalta until 2013.
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