Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Farkon kakar 2013-14 ya kasance da wahala ga Yakimenko: bayan ya sauka zuwa matsayi na 17, bai ƙara amfana da keɓewar Top-16 ba kuma dole ne ya shiga matakin cancanta a kowane gasar cin kofin duniya. Ya sake dawowa a watan Afrilu tare da lambar tagulla a Athens, sannan tagulla biyu a Chicago da Warsaw. A farkon watan Yuni ya sha wahala daga mutuwar David Tyshler, daya daga cikin manyan masu amfani da makamai na Rasha da kuma mai kula da shi a jami'a. Bayan 'yan kwanaki a Gasar Zakarun Turai a Strasbourg, ya doke abokan wasansa Kamil Ibragimov da Veniamin Reshetnikov a wasan kusa da na karshe da na karshe, don samun taken mutum na biyar na Turai da lambar yabo ta goma sha ɗaya ta Turai. A wasan kungiya, Rasha ta doke Ukraine, sannan Belarus ta hadu da Italiya a wasan karshe. Bayan wasan da aka yi a kusa da Italiya ya ci nasara 45 zuwa 44 kuma Rasha ta koma lambar azurfa. A cikin
Gasar cin kofin duniya a Kazan, Yakimenko ya fitar da Won Woo-young na Koriya a wasan kusa da na karshe, amma ya yi nasara a kan abokin wasansa Gu Bon-gil a wasan kusa da na karshe. Ya tafi tare da lambar tagulla, ta biyu ta duniya ta duniya kawai. Ya bayyana cewa yana matukar farin ciki da wannan sakamakon kuma ya sadaukar da lambar yabo ga budurwarsa. Koyaya, wasan kungiya bai cika tsammanin ba: an shawo kan Rasha ta farko a wasan kusa da na karshe da Jamus, wanda daga karshe ya lashe lambar zinare. Musamman damuwa da wannan rashin nasara, Rasha ta kasa sake tsarawa don wasan lambar tagulla kuma ta yi rashin nasara 45<unk>43 a kan Hungary, ta dawo gida ba tare da lambar yabo ba.