Aleksei Kostylev

Aleksei Nikolayevich Kostylev 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. 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.