Maksim Valerevich Zyuzyakin (

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: Максим Валерьевич Зюзякин) (born 13 January 1991) is a

professional

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player who is currently under contract to HC Khimik Voskresensk in the

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(VHL). He has played for various KHL,

(VHL), and Junior Hockey League (MHL) teams. Zyuzyakin was the only rostered member of the team not aboard the

2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash On 7 September 2011, YAK-Service Flight 9633, a Yakovlev Yak-42 air charter, charter flight operated by Yak-Service, YAK-Service carrying players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed on take-off nea ...

. He had been asked by head coach

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to stay behind in Yaroslavl to rest and meet with the team in

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for their next scheduled game against Spartak, which was never played, as

Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Hockey Club Lokomotiv (russian: ХК Локомотив, en, Locomotive HC), also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team, based in the city of Yaroslavl, playing in the top level Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) ...

cancelled their participation in the

2011–12 KHL season The 2011–12 KHL season was the fourth season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season began with the Opening Cup game on 7 September 2011, but because of the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, which occurred during the first perio ...

as a result of the crash. Instead Russian hockey coach

Petr Vorobiev Pyotr Ilyich Vorobyov (russian: Пётр Ильич Воробьёв; lv, Pjotrs Vorobjovs; born 28 January 1949) is a Russian professional ice hockey coach and former player. Vorobyov is the head coach of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental ...

led the team as it played part of the 2011–2012 season in the VHL, Russia's equivalent of the

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. As the only surviving player, Zyuzyakin later was named captain of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl for the 2011–12 VHL season and became a symbol of the team's revival. In the 2013–14 VHL season he went to the playoffs with

Rubin Tyumen Rubin Tyumen is an ice hockey team in Tyumen, Russia. They play in the VHL, the second level of Russian ice hockey. History The club's direct predecessor was a team called Vodnik Tyumen. It participated in lower levels of the Soviet hockey champi ...

. He played with

Metallurg Novokuznetsk Metallurg Novokuznetsk (russian: Металлург Новокузнецк) is a professional ice hockey team from Siberia based in Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia. They are currently members of the Supreme Hockey League (VHL). History The ...

for part of the 2013–14 KHL season.

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