Mykola Borysovych Makhynia ( uk, Микола Борисович Махиня; 1912 – 1990) was a

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and Ukrainian football player and coach. He is Merited Master of Sports of the Soviet Union (1946) and Merited Coach of the Ukrainian SSR (1962), the author of the first goal for Dynamo Kyiv in the Soviet Top League. He was born in a family of river captain-instructor Borys Kasianovych Makhynia who eventually commanded big steamboats along

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.Today Mykola Makhynia would have turned 105 (Сьогодні Миколі МАХИНІ виповнилося б 105 років)

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. 30 November 2017 Mykola was the youngest and had two brothers Andriy and Ivan and a sister Yevdokia. Talent for football appeared in all brother, but only Mykola was able to reach the highest level. If Andriy eventually left football and the highest achievement for Ivan was participations in games of the Kyiv championship in 1920s, Mykola passed all the levels that led to football heights. Already in 1925 (or 1926) Mykola started to play for teams of local agency "Raikomvod" (or as they were simply called "Vodnyki).

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Today Mykola Makhynia would have turned 105 (Сьогодні Миколі МАХИНІ виповнилося б 105 років)

. 30 November 2017 1912 births 1990 deaths People from Cherkasy Oblast People from Kanevsky Uyezd Soviet Top League players FC Dynamo Kyiv players FC Dynamo Kazan players FC Dynamo Kyiv managers FC CSKA Kyiv managers Ukrainian footballers Soviet footballers Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR Merited Coaches of Ukraine Association football forwards Ukrainian football managers Soviet football managers Sportspeople from Cherkasy Oblast {{USSR-footy-bio-stub