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Mikhail Yakushin
	Mikhail Yakushin in 1967
Personal information
Full name	Mikhail Iosifovich Yakushin
Date of birth	15 November 1910
Place of birth	Moscow, Russia
Date of death	3 February 1997 (aged 86)
Place of death	Moscow, Russia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1928–1929	STS
1931–1933	SKiG
1933–1944	Dynamo Moscow
Managerial career
1944–1950	Dynamo Moscow
1953–1960	Dynamo Moscow
1958–1959	USSR
1965–1966	Pakhtakor Tashkent
1967–1968	USSR
1969–1970	Pakhtakor Tashkent
1973	Lokomotiv Moscow
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mikhail Iosifovich Yakushin (Russian: Михаил Иосифович Якушин; 15 November 1910 – 3 February 1997) was a Russian football and field hockey player, later a manager of Dynamo Moscow and the USSR.

Playing career

Yakushin played football for Moscow clubs STS (1928–1929), SKiG (1931–1933), and Dynamo (1933–1944). He scored one goal in his three international matches for the Soviet national team. In the 1930s he also played field hockey for Dynamo, favoring hockey to football.

Coaching career

As a manager, he coached Dynamo Moscow from 1944 to 1950 and from 1953 to 1960, winning six Soviet titles (1945, 1949, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1959). He was the head coach of the USSR national football team in 1959 and from 1967 to 1968.