Played For: | Traktor Chelyabinsk Dizel Penza Lokomotiv Yaroslavl |
League: | KHL |
Ntl Team: | RUS |
Position: | Right wing |
Height Ft: | 6 |
Height In: | 1 |
Weight Lb: | 198 |
Shoots: | Left |
Birth Date: | 1987 9, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Chelyabinsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
Death Place: | Tunoshna, Yaroslavl, Russia |
Draft: | Undrafted |
Career Start: | 2005 |
Career End: | 2011 |
Alexander Igorevich Kalyanin (Russian: Александр Игоревич Калянин) (24 September 1987 – 7 September 2011) was a Russian professional ice hockey winger who played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).[1]
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.'"[2] [3] [4] He died just 17 days before his twenty-fourth birthday.