Lokomotiv Yaroslavl was founded in 2011 after the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, a disaster that killed almost everyone on board except who?
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl (VHL) Lokomotiv is an ice hockey team in Yaroslavl, Russia. They play in the VHL, the second level of Russian ice hockey. It is a farm club of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League. It was founded in 2011 after the entire KHL team along with its coaching staff died in a plane crash and consisted of MHL players of Loko Yaroslavl. When the franchise rejoined the KHL in its 2012–13 season, it was decided to keep a minor team in the VHL structure.
Nikolai Borisovich Kulikov Nikolai Borisovich Kulikov (Russian: Куликов, Николай Борисович, April 25, 1953 in Moscow, USSR - August 11, 1979 in Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine SSR) was a Soviet footballer. Kulikov played for FC Pakhtakor Tashkent as a defender from 1976 to 1979, before he died in a mid-air plane crash in August 1979. He was classified as a Master of Sport of the USSR in 1979.