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List of Ukrainians in the Kontinental Hockey League

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For the 2014–15 season, Ukrainians constituted the 14th most numerous nationality within the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). During the 2009–10 KHL season, 26[a] Ukrainian players participated in the competition, the most to date, out of the 41 total to have played. Alexei Zhitnik, along with Anton Babchuk and Nikolay Zherdev are of a select few to have been named to the annual All Star Game.

Oleg Tverdovsky became the first Ukrainian-born player to win the Gagarin Cup, doing so with HC Salavat Yulaev in 2010. In 2013, Kostiantyn Kasianchuk became the first Ukrainian national team player to do the same; after which the Cup was brought to Kyiv in celebration.[1] According to Sokil Kyiv general manager Vyacheslav Zavalnyuk, 13.5% of all players in the KHL have Ukrainian roots.[2]

Players

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Anton Babchuk playing for HC Donbass in 2012
Vitaly Vishnevsky has played the most games of any Ukrainian in the KHL
Nikolay Zherdev playing for Atlant
Alexei Mikhnov playing for Metallurg Magnitogorsk in 2012
= Active in 2012-13 season = Signed for 2013-14 season = Active in 2013-14 season = Retired
NAT Name POS GP G A PTS Birthplace Team Ref.
Ukraine Viktor Andrushenko F 59 3 11 14 Kyiv (Belarus) [3]
Russia Vitali Anikeyenko[☦] D 144 14 35 49 Kyiv - [4]
Russia Anton Babchuk ★ D 80 10 15 25 Kyiv Salavat Yulaev [5]
Ukraine Denis Bayev D 156 9 15 24 Konotop (VHL) [6]
Yevgeni Belukhin F 0 0 0 0 Arzamas-16 Donbass [7][8]
Dmytriy Berezin G 1 - - - Novosibirsk Unsigned [9]
Ukraine Roman Blahoi F 0 0 0 0 Kyiv Donbass [10]
Russia Anton But LW 249 66 82 148 Kharkiv Unsigned [11]
Russia Denis Denisov D 250 32 63 95 Kharkiv CSKA [b][12]
Ukraine Vitali Donika C 15 0 1 1 Kyiv (VHL) [13]
Ukraine Ruslan Fedotenko LW 33 8 10 18 Kyiv Donbass [14]
Ukraine Serhiy Haiduchenko G 78 - - - Kyiv Donbass [15]
Ukraine Kostiantyn Kasianchuk F 170 29 35 64 Kyiv Dynamo [16]
Ukraine Serhiy Klymentiev D 39 2 4 6 Kyiv - [17]
Russia Alexander Komaristy C 176 19 37 56 Severodonetsk Neftekhimik [18]
Ukraine Maxim Kvitchenko F 25 0 1 1 Kyiv Donbass [19]
Ukraine Vitaliy Liutkevych D 20 0 1 1 Kyiv (VHL) [20]
Ukraine Oleksandr Materukhin LW 7 0 0 0 Kyiv Dinamo-Minsk [21]
Russia Alexei Mikhnov LW 200 45 61 106 Kyiv Atlant [22]
Ukraine Andriy Mikhnov LW 109 10 12 22 Kyiv (Belarus) [23]
Yegor Morozov F 0 0 0 0 [✪]Tolyatti Donbass [24]
Ukraine Artem Ostroushko D 51 5 8 13 Kyiv - [25]
Ukraine Denis Petrukhno D 0 0 0 0 Kyiv Donbass [26]
Kazakhstan Fedor Polischuk LW 221 20 48 68 Kolodyste Barys [27]
Ukraine Alexei Ponikarovsky LW 32 5 13 18 Kyiv Kunlun [28]
Ukraine Gennady Razin D 237 9 29 38 Kharkiv Donbass [29]
Russia Andrei Sergeyev D 104 4 9 13 Simferopol Spartak [30]
Ukraine Oleh Shafarenko F 21 2 4 6 Kyiv (Belarus) [31]
Ukraine Vadym Shakhraychuk C 103 15 12 17 Kyiv Unsigned [32]
Vladislav Shalimov RW 3 0 0 0 Belovo Donbass [33][34]
Russia Egor Shastin F 141 34 42 76 Kyiv (Swiss) [35]
Ukraine Mykhailo Shevchuk G 0 - - - Kharkiv Donbass [36]
Russia Denis Shvidki RW 37 3 4 7 Kharkiv (MOL Liga) [37]
Ukraine Dmytro Shvidenko D 0 0 0 0 Lubny Ugra [38]
Yuri Silnitsky D 16 0 0 0 Tyumen Donbass [39][40]
Ukraine Kostiantyn Simchuk G 13 - - - Kyiv - [41]
Russia Daniil Sobchenko[☦] C 51 6 2 8 Kyiv - [42]
Belarus Alexei Strakhov RW 25 3 3 6 Kharkiv - [43]
Russia Volodymyr Tkachev D 5 0 0 0 Dnipropetrovsk Ak Bars [44]
Ukraine Oleksandr Toryanik RW 0 0 0 0 Kharkiv Donbass [45]
Russia Oleg Tverdovsky D 191 29 51 80 Donetsk - [46]
Ukraine Serhiy Varlamov LW 133 24 26 50 Kyiv Donbass [47]
Russia Vitaly Vishnevsky D 263 25 44 69 Kharkiv Lokomotiv [48]
Alexander Vyukhin[☦] G 87 - - - Sverdlovsk - [49]
Ukraine Viktor Zakharov F 0 0 0 0 Kyiv Donbass [50]
Russia Ignat Zemchenko C 80 9 7 16 Kyiv Severstal [51]
Russia Nikolay Zherdev ★ RW 155 44 78 122 Kyiv Severstal [52]
Russia Alexei Zhitnik ★ D 112 4 14 18 Kyiv - [53]

Note: A (★) denotes a player who has participated in an All Star Game
All statistics accurate to the end of the 2012–13 KHL season

Breakdown of players by nationality

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5
10
15
20
25
30
  •   Ukraine
  •   Nationalized to Ukraine
  •   Russia
  •   Kazakhstan
  •   Belarus
  •   Neutral

Captains

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Several players have acted as captains of their respective KHL clubs, including: Alexei Zhitnik (Dynamo Moscow); Vitaly Vishnevsky (SKA); Serhiy Varlamov, Ruslan Fedotenko,[54] (HC Donbass); and Nikolay Zherdev (Atlant)

Players of Ukrainian descent

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The following is a list of KHL players who while not born in Ukraine, are of documented Ukrainian descent.

Notes

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References

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