Kechinov wasn't the only player to have problems with the Spartak management at that time, earlier other star players such as Ilia Tsymbalar, Andrey Tikhonov and Evgeni Bushmanov were forced to leave the team for similar reasons.
He joined the Kazakh side with his former teammate Andrey Tikhonov.
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