Mykola Makhynia

Mykola Borysovych Makhynia (Ukrainian: Микола Борисович Махиня; 1912 – 1990) was a Soviet and Ukrainian football player and coach. He was 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.

Mykola Makhynia

Personal information
Full name	Mykola Borysovych Makhynia
Date of birth	(1912-11-30)November 30, 1912
Place of birth	Kaniv, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire
Date of death	March 15, 1990(1990-03-15) (aged 77)
Place of death	Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s)	Outer Forward,[1] Defender
Youth career
1925–1927	Raikomvod Kyiv
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1927–1931	Raikomvod Kyiv
1932–1941	Dynamo Kyiv	110	(10)
1942–1943	Dynamo Kazan
1944–1947	Dynamo Kyiv	51	(2)
Managerial career
1944–1945	Dynamo Kyiv
1947–1953	ODO Kiev
1954–1958	Youth Football School
1959–1961	SKVO Kiev/SKA
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

He was born in the family of river captain-instructor Borys Kasianovych Makhynia who eventually commanded big steamboats along the Dnieper.^[2] Mykola was the youngest and had two brothers Andriy and Ivan and a sister Yevdokia.^[2] Talent for football appeared in all brothers, but only Mykola was able to reach the highest level.^[2] While Andriy eventually left football and the highest achievement for Ivan was participation in games of the Kyiv championship in 1920s, Mykola passed all the levels that led to football heights.^[2]

Already in 1925 (or 1926)^[1] Mykola started to play for teams of local agency "Raikomvod" (or as they were simply called "Vodnyki).^[2]