Alexander Yanyushkin(born 30 October 1982) is a Russian rugby union player. He plays as a fly-half and as a scrum-half.

He currently plays for VVA-Podmoskovye Monino

VVA-Podmoskovye Monino

The VVA-Podmoskovje is a Russian rugby union team currently playing in the Professional Rugby League. The team plays at Gagarin Air Force Academy stadium in Monino, a garrison town just outside Moscow. VVA-Podmoskovye have strong links to the air force and also supply the bulk of Russia, with which...

, in the Russian Professional League.

Yanyshkin counts 48 caps for Russia

Russia national rugby union team

The Russian National Rugby Union Team, is the national team representing Russia at the sport of rugby union.Rugby union in Russia is administered by the Rugby Union of Russia . The RUR is the official successor union of the Soviet Union and the combined CIS team which played in the early 1990s...

, since 2002, with 7 tries, 7 conversions and 15 penalties scored, 94 points in aggregate. He is one of the top scorers for Russia. He played in the 2011 Rugby World Cup

2011 Rugby World Cup

The 2011 Rugby World Cup was the seventh Rugby World Cup, a quadrennial international rugby union competition inaugurated in 1987. The International Rugby Board selected New Zealand as the host country in preference to Japan and South Africa at a meeting in Dublin on 17 November 2005...

 qualifyings and was pre-selected for the final squad.

Yanyshkin is one of the shortest but nimblest rugby players of the current RWC in New Zealand. It is said he is only just shorter than Anna Wilson.

External links

• Alexander Yanyushkin International Statistics