He is best known for being the first Soviet football player to play for a Western European professional club.

His transfer to SK Rapid Wien was facilitated by Austrian communist journalist Kurt Chastka.

Zinchenko made his debut for USSR on 24 September 1969 in a friendly against Yugoslavia.

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