diff --git a/compiler/backend/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/codegen/coroutines/CoroutineTransformerMethodVisitor.kt b/compiler/backend/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/codegen/coroutines/CoroutineTransformerMethodVisitor.kt
index 11fdb487351..04c63261659 100644
--- a/compiler/backend/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/codegen/coroutines/CoroutineTransformerMethodVisitor.kt
+++ b/compiler/backend/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/codegen/coroutines/CoroutineTransformerMethodVisitor.kt
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ class CoroutineTransformerMethodVisitor(
     override fun performTransformations(methodNode: MethodNode) {
         val suspensionPoints = collectSuspensionPoints(methodNode)
 
+        // First instruction in the method node may change in case of named function
+        val actualCoroutineStart = methodNode.instructions.first
+
         if (isForNamedFunction) {
             if (allSuspensionPointsAreTailCalls(containingClassInternalName, methodNode, suspensionPoints)) {
                 dropSuspensionMarkers(methodNode, suspensionPoints)
@@ -76,16 +79,6 @@ class CoroutineTransformerMethodVisitor(
             prepareMethodNodePreludeForNamedFunction(methodNode)
         }
 
-        val customCoroutineStart = run {
-            val customCoroutineStartMarker = methodNode.instructions.toArray().filterIsInstance<MethodInsnNode>().firstOrNull {
-                it.owner == COROUTINE_MARKER_OWNER && it.name == ACTUAL_COROUTINE_START_MARKER_NAME
-            }
-
-            customCoroutineStartMarker?.next?.also {
-                methodNode.instructions.remove(customCoroutineStartMarker)
-            }
-        }
-
         for (suspensionPoint in suspensionPoints) {
             splitTryCatchBlocksContainingSuspensionPoint(methodNode, suspensionPoint)
         }
@@ -110,7 +103,7 @@ class CoroutineTransformerMethodVisitor(
         methodNode.instructions.apply {
             val startLabel = LabelNode()
             val defaultLabel = LabelNode()
-            val firstToInsertBefore = customCoroutineStart ?: first
+            val firstToInsertBefore = actualCoroutineStart
             // tableswitch(this.label)
             insertBefore(firstToInsertBefore,
                          insnListOf(
@@ -221,8 +214,6 @@ class CoroutineTransformerMethodVisitor(
             checkcast(objectTypeForState)
             getfield(COROUTINE_IMPL_FOR_NAMED_ASM_TYPE.internalName, "exception", AsmTypes.JAVA_THROWABLE_TYPE.descriptor)
             visitVarInsn(Opcodes.ASTORE, exceptionIndex)
-
-            invokestatic(COROUTINE_MARKER_OWNER, ACTUAL_COROUTINE_START_MARKER_NAME, "()V", false)
         })
     }
 
diff --git a/compiler/backend/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/codegen/coroutines/coroutineCodegenUtil.kt b/compiler/backend/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/codegen/coroutines/coroutineCodegenUtil.kt
index 972221bf024..e5150cec820 100644
--- a/compiler/backend/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/codegen/coroutines/coroutineCodegenUtil.kt
+++ b/compiler/backend/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/codegen/coroutines/coroutineCodegenUtil.kt
@@ -55,7 +55,6 @@ import org.jetbrains.org.objectweb.asm.tree.MethodNode
 const val COROUTINE_MARKER_OWNER = "kotlin/coroutines/Markers"
 const val BEFORE_SUSPENSION_POINT_MARKER_NAME = "beforeSuspensionPoint"
 const val AFTER_SUSPENSION_POINT_MARKER_NAME = "afterSuspensionPoint"
-const val ACTUAL_COROUTINE_START_MARKER_NAME = "actualCoroutineStart"
 
 const val COROUTINE_LABEL_FIELD_NAME = "label"
 const val SUSPEND_FUNCTION_CREATE_METHOD_NAME = "create"