He was born in
Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic in the former
Soviet Union, and started his playing career in
CSKA Moscow. He started playing handball late; at the age of 14. Before that he practiced
swimming. One year later he participated on the
1993 World Championships as a member of the
Russian team and won the gold medal again. After the 1992 Summer Olympics he signed for
Teka Cantabria and a few years later he received the Spanish citizenship. Afterwards he played in the
Spain men's national handball team for nearly a decade, gaining two Olympic bronze medals in
1996 and
2000, and silver and bronze medals on the European championships. He also gained several individual recognitions in the world championships, like being elected as the best player of the tournament in
1997, but he failed to win any medals with the Spanish team, which finished 4th in both
1999 and
2003. Ironically when Spain finally won the world championship in
2005, Dujshebaev was no longer the member of the squad. With Teka Cantabria he won the 1993
EHF Cup and the
1993-94 EHF Champions League as well as the
Spanish Championship in 1993 and 1994. In 1997 he joined
TuS Nettelstedt. Here he won the
Euro-City Cup in his first season. He also had the second most goals in the
Bundesliga with 194. The season after he joined league rivals
GWD Minden. In 2001, after playing for a few years in Germany on club level, he returned to Spain and signed for
BM Ciudad Real where he finished his playing career in 2007. In 2005 he became player-manager of the team, and after his retirement he became the full-time manager. His managerial successes include multiple
Liga ASOBAL wins with the team, as well as winning the
EHF Champions League in 2006, 2008 and 2009. In 2006 he briefly returned to the field, when one of the Ciudad center backcourt players,
Uroš Zorman injured. He was voted twice as the
IHF World Player of the Year, in 1994 and in 1996. He also came in second in the IHF World Player of the Century voting behind
Magnus Wislander from Sweden. In 2014 (8 January) he replaced
Bogdan Wenta as head coach of
PGE Vive Kielce. Contemporaneously with his job in Kielce, he has been also coaching the Hungarian men's national handball team since October 8, 2014 until 2016. He also coached
Poland during the
2016 Summer Olympics and the
2017 World Men's Handball Championship in
France. In February 2026 he became the head coach of the
French National team, replacing
Guillaume Gille. In April 2026 he ceased to be the head coach of
Kielce after 12 years at the job. He was replaced by his former assistant coach
Krzysztof Lijewski. == Private ==