Aleksei Aravin

Aleksei Aleksandrovich Aravin (Алексей Александрович Аравин; born 9 July 1986) is a Russian former professional footballer.

Career
He played his first professional football game for the senior FC Lokomotiv Moscow team on 12 November 2005 in a Russian Cup matchup with FC Metallurg-Kuzbass Novokuznetsk.

He made his professional debut in the Russian Second Division in 2006 for FC SKA Rostov-on-Don. He played one game for FC Lokomotiv Moscow in the Кубок России по футболу 2005/2006, and while on their reserve team, played 40 matches.

He made his Russian Premier League debut for FC Sibir Novosibirsk on 14 March 2010 in a game against FC Terek Grozny. In the 2010 season, Aravin played in 23 of the 30 matches. After qualifying, he played in Sibir's Europa League campaign, beginning with a match against FC Apollon. In July 2011, many media outlets reported that Aravin had renewed his contract with Sibir, but in reality, was in the process of signing on for a year with PFC Spartak Nalchik. He debuted with Spartak on August 13 in their winning match of the Russian championship games against FC Tom Tomsk.

On 2 July 2014, Aravin signed a two-year contract with Anzhi Makhachkala.