As head coach: Valeri Tikhonenko (Russian: Валерий Алексеевич Тихоненко; born 19 August 1964) is a retired Soviet and Russian professional basketball player and coach.

With the Soviet Union, he won a gold medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

During his pro club career, Tikhonenko won three Russian Championships with CSKA Moscow (1998, 1999, 2000).

As a member of Russia's national team, he played at the 1998 FIBA World Cup, where he won a silver medal, and at the 1999 EuroBasket.

[2] Tikhonenko became the general manager of the Kazakh League club Astana, in 2011.