for the next few years, kanevskyi felt he was being followed. his name was forbidden to be mentioned in print media. in historical materials commemorating the first big victories of dynamo kyiv, the kanevskyi surname was not mentioned as he was never captain in the club nor being on the soviet team's roster at the 1962 fifa world cup. kanevskyi was even removed from the photo of the 1961 dynamos' winning squad. for a few years he was without a job, but later with his brother worked in construction at first building the palace of culture in chernihiv oblast and later in moscow a cooperative house.