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Death of former women's national coach Oleg Lapshin
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- Background
USSR women's football team enters official international play in 1990
In 1990 the Soviet women's national team, led by coach Oleg Lapshin, played official internationals in the final years before the USSR dissolved.
- Background
Russia's women's national team begins life as an independent side under Lapshin
After the Soviet breakup, Russia's women's football team began playing as its own national side in the early 1990s, with Oleg Lapshin as coach.

Oleg Lapshin, former coach of USSR and Russia women's football teams, dies at 89
Oleg Lapshin, who led the women's national football team of the USSR and then Russia from 1988 to 1994, has died at the age of 89, the Russian Football Union said.