title: Aleksei Kostylev
text: # Aleksei Kostylev
  
  Aleksei Nikolayevich Kostylev (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Ко́стылев; 1914 in Moscow – 1989 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian football player and coach.
  
  ## Career
  
  During World War II Kostylev played for the Soviet FC Spartak Kishenev at the newly Soviet occupied territories of Bessarabia (Moldavian SSR). After the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union he became a POW at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.
  
  After the war, he continued to coach at Southern Russia and Ukraine.
  
  