Viktor Igorevich Budyansky, sometimes Boudianski (, born 12 January 1984) is a retired association footballer who played as a midfielder. He last played for Italian club Udinese.

Club career

Juventus and various loans

Budyanskiy started his Italy career at Juventus along with Ilyos Zeytulayev and Serhiy Kovalenko after a trial. He signed a five-year contract on 10 August 2001. He played his first league match for the club on 2 May 2004 against Perugia. After graduation from youth team in June 2004, along with Ilyos Zeytulayev they were unable to register as a Juve player. At first FIGC declared that their remained two years contract did not fulfill the regulation and void them (FIGC declared that their contract was a youth contract and should be a maximum of three years) and a non-EU player at that time cannot sign a contract extension, thus they were released. But after an appeal, the appeal committee stated that a foreigner can sign a professional contract regardless his age, FIGC regulations only protected domestic youth product could only sign a contract for more than three years after 18, thus available to Juve since December. he joined Reggina in a co-ownership deal for just €1000, along with Ilyos Zeytulayev in January 2005. In June 2005, Juventus bought back Budyanskiy for the same price (€500) and let Zeytulaev went to Reggina permanently. In July 2005, Budyanskiy was loaned to Avellino of Serie B. In July 2006, he was sold to Ascoli in another co-ownership deal for undisclosed fees. In June 2007, Ascoli bought the remain half for €900,000.

Udinese and various loans

In August 2007 he joined Udinese and in January 2008 left for Lecce. He played at Lecce for a year and joined Khimki in another one-year loan, along with team-mate Jani Tapani Virtanen, which also made Udinese had an extra non-EU registration quota. In January 2010 he returned to Italy but failed to make a single appearance.

International career

Born in Ukraine, Budyanskiy has Russian citizenship and played a few matches for the Russia national team at a junior level and finally debuted for the senior team on 2 June 2007 as he came in as a substitute in the match against Andorra.