Andrei Kiryukhin

Andrei Anatolievich Kiryukhin was a Russian professional ice hockey winger who played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League.
Besides Lokomotiv, he also played for Lokomotiv-2, Belgorod and Kapitan teams. Playing for Russia at the 2007 World [Junior Ice Hockey Championships] he won a silver medal. His father Anatoly Kiryukhin was a football player and coach.

Death

On 7 September 2011, Kiryukhin 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.'"