Viktar Michajłavič Hančarenka; Russian: Виктор Михайлович Гончаренко, Viktor Mikhailovich Goncharenko; born 10 June 1977), is a Belarusian football manager and current head coach of Pari Nizhny Novgorod.
He is the son of Mikhail Hancharenka, a Belarusian engineer who died in 1993 in the wake of the infamous Chernobyl disaster and who was a big football fan.
Viktor joined a football school at the young age of 9 years old where his parents encouraged him to do his best to be as successful as possible.
In 1995, after his father's death, Viktor became a student at the Republic College of Olympic Reserve in Minsk, Belarus.
He also met other famous Belarusian footballers Alexander Hleb, Vitali Kutuzov and Yuri Zhevnov.
On 12 October 2013, Hancharenka was appointed as manager of Russian Premier League side Kuban Krasnodar.
[14] On 9 October 2024, Goncharenko was hired by Russian Premier League club FC Pari Nizhny Novgorod.