FC Khimki and Spartak Gogniev agreed to terminate the contract, signed in September 2022.

Club hired Rinat Bilyaletdinov as interim head coach. He has been working in the coaching staff since December 2022 as senior coach. As head coach Bilyaletdinov worked in RPL with Rubin Kazan and SKA Khabarovsk earning 18 wins, 12 draws and 22 losses in 52 league matches.

Gogniev was announced as Khimki head coach on 2 September becoming third coach for the team this season after Sergey Yuran and Nikolay Pisarev. With his staff the Red-Blacks made six points in 14 matches, team goes 15th in the standings after 21 games.

In the Matchday 22 Khimki will face CSKA Moscow at VEB Arena on Sunday 9 April.