His season began in January with the Gran Premio Palio del Recioto, where he won with his teammates Vasily Zhdanov and Djamolidine Abdoujaparov .

[38] Konyshev only rode four further races in the 1990 season the first was the Giro del Veneto where a reduced bunch of five riders made their way to the line after the hilly course.

[40] Later in April he rode the Grand Prix Pino Cerami finishing 8th as last place in the chasing bunch of lone winner Andrei Tchmil.

Lemond attacked and held the bunch off getting a lead of 50 seconds but the Banesto team of winner Miguel Induráin paced him down ensuring the race would end in a sprint.

[51] The first major result of the season came at the Amstel Gold Race which was a 247.5 kilometer hilly classic ending in a uphill mass sprint.

Riding at the inaugural Russian National Road Race Championships in late June he finished second behind Asiat Saitov of the Kelme–Don Cafe team.

The two worked hard to catch Chioccioli, but to no avail the Italian would win the stage, coming into the finishing straight the pair had a 50m lead on the peloton.

After recovering from the Tour, Konyshev's next race was the Clásica de San Sebastián where he finished fourth with the chasing bunch 1' 12" down on the winner.

[62] Stage 1a was an 85 km race which ended with Moreno Argentin attacking on the last rise and the peloton coming home 35s down with Konyshev sprinting to 10th place.

Taking his second stage win of the Giro this time by a sprint of 20 riders who had ridden away from race leader Bruno Leali and the Banesto controlled peloton.

In late June it was off the Russian National Road Race Championships where he won beating last year's winner Asiat Saitov.

[73] With Konyshev not being in his best form and missing the moves of the day he came home in 40th for the years La Flèche Wallonne where the Gewiss–Ballan team took all three spots on the podium.

[77] His only victory of the season came at the Ronde van Nederland where Konyshev won Stage 1 of the race taking the lead by 23 seconds after escaping with Luca Scinto.

[89] Konyshev's first win of the season came at Giro del Friuli a one-day race where he won the reduced bunch uphill sprint.

Stage 2 of the race ended in a bunch sprint with Konyshev coming the closest so far to a victory being beaten by the slimmest of margins by Fabiano Fontanelli.

[106] Konyshev spent other stages in the break this gave him points in the mountain classification which he finished second in behind teammate Andrey Teteryuk.

[110][111] Returning to Europe, Konyshev headed to Spain for the one-day classic Clásica de San Sebastián where he did not feature coming home in 47th.

[123] Still in Spain he rode the Clásica de Almería leading out teammate Massimo Strazzer to victory Konyshev managed to finish in 12th.

Stage 4 was a reduced bunch coming to the line with Konyshev being the one led out this time by Pavel Padrnos he sprinted to take his first victory of the season.

Konyshev won Stage 6 of the race from a two-man breakaway with Kazakhstani Alexandre Vinokourov, the pair finished 28 seconds ahead of the peloton.

[142] At the Giro del Lazio Konyshev was in the front group of the race till he was distanced on the final climb finishing 20 seconds down in tenth position.

[161][162] Before the Tour started Konyshev headed back to Russia to ride the Russian National Road Race Championships he came away with a bronze medal finishing third 1' 26" down on winner Sergei Ivanov.

[168] This was followed by a poor result in the Amstel Gold Race where he came home in the grupetto 9' 20" down on the winner, but he did win the sprint in the Gruppeto to finish in 37th.

In Stage 6 Konyshev made his way into the break of the day and won the third and fourth KOM sprints, gaining 16 points and moving him into the red jersey.

[185] Keeping his good form, Konyshev raced the Giro del Lazio where he took third behind his teammate who won from an attack from 2 km before the line.

[194] The next day he rode the Giro della Provincia di Siracusa finishing fifth in the bunch sprint after leading out teammate Gabriele Balducci for third.

In September he rode the Giro della Romagna and won the mass sprint finish to claim his second non-classification win of the season.

[220] His two last top 10 results of the season came in Coppa Sabatini, where he came eighth as part of an original 12-man breakaway he got dropped on the hilly climbs,[221] and tenth at the Olympic Games Road race.

Konyshev's first podium of the season came from a sprint in Stage 2 of the Giro della Liguria where Italian Stefano Zanini (Mapei–Quick-Step) beat him on the line.

[263] His final good result of the season came at the Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese where he was once again helping Bruylandts and he finished seventh.