He has also played in the Italian Serie A for Bologna, Udinese and Napoli, as well as MSV Duisburg in Germany and FC Lugano in Switzerland.

[citation needed] He was a member of the USSR national team which participated in the 1990 FIFA World Cup.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he represented the unified CIS team at the European Championship held in Sweden.

He was one of a number of players who refused to play for then-coach Pavel Sadyrin at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

[10] Shalimov was dismissed by Ural on 8 August 2022 after losing the first 4 games in the 2022–23 Russian Premier League season.