[2][3] In 1959, Turchyn assembled a handball team of teenage girls, which in 1962 became HC Spartak Kyiv.

Natalia played handball alongside her mother for Spartak Kyiv, while Mikhail went into basketball.

He underwent a complex bypass surgery in Norway, and after that coached the Norwegian women's handball team for eight months.

[6] He died of a heart attack during an EHF Cup match in Romania in 1993.

After his death, his wife took over his coaching positions with Spartak Kyiv and the Ukrainian national team.