High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Veniamin Vasilievich Soldatenko (Russian: Вениамин Васильевич Солдатенко) (born 4 January 1939 in the village of Shkurovka, North Kazakhstan Province, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic) is a former Soviet athlete who competed mainly in the 50 km walk. He trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Alma-Ata. He acquired Kazakhstani citizenship after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.