Alexander Kalyanin
Alexander Igorevich Kalyanin () (24 September 1987 – 7 September 2011) was a Russian professional ice hockey winger who played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Death
On 7 September 2011, Kalyanin was killed in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying nearly his entire Lokomotiv team, crashed just outside Yaroslavl, Russia. The team was traveling to Minsk to play their opening game of the season, with its coaching staff and prospects. Lokomotiv officials said "'everyone from the main roster was on the plane plus four players from the youth team.'" He died just 17 days before his twenty-fourth birthday. See also
List of ice hockey players who died during their playing career

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1987 births
2011 deaths
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl players
Ice hockey people from Chelyabinsk
Russian ice hockey right wingers
Victims of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
Ice hockey people from Yaroslavl