title: List of Ukrainians in the Kontinental Hockey League
text: # List of Ukrainians in the Kontinental Hockey League
  
  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 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. According to Sokil Kyiv general manager Vyacheslav Zavalnyuk, 13.5% of all players in the KHL have Ukrainian roots.
  
  ## Players
  
  | = Active in 2012-13 season | = Signed for 2013-14 season | = Active in 2013-14 season | = Retired |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Name | POS | GP | G | A | PTS | Birthplace | Team |
  | Viktor Andrushenko | F | 59 | 3 | 11 | 14 | Kyiv | (Belarus) |
  | Vitali Anikeyenko | D | 144 | 14 | 35 | 49 | Kyiv | - |
  | Anton Babchuk ★ | D | 80 | 10 | 15 | 25 | Kyiv | Salavat Yulaev |
  | Denis Bayev | D | 156 | 9 | 15 | 24 | Konotop | (VHL) |
  | Yevgeni Belukhin | F | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Arzamas-16 | Donbass |
  | Dmytriy Berezin | G | 1 | - | - | - | Novosibirsk | Unsigned |
  | Roman Blahoi | F | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kyiv | Donbass |
  | Anton But | LW | 249 | 66 | 82 | 148 | Kharkiv | Unsigned |
  | Denis Denisov | D | 250 | 32 | 63 | 95 | Kharkiv | CSKA |
  | Vitali Donika | C | 15 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Kyiv | (VHL) |
  | Ruslan Fedotenko | LW | 33 | 8 | 10 | 18 | Kyiv | Donbass |
  | Serhiy Haiduchenko | G | 78 | - | - | - | Kyiv | Donbass |
  | Kostiantyn Kasianchuk | F | 170 | 29 | 35 | 64 | Kyiv | Dynamo |
  | Serhiy Klymentiev | D | 39 | 2 | 4 | 6 | Kyiv | - |
  | Alexander Komaristy | C | 176 | 19 | 37 | 56 | Severodonetsk | Neftekhimik |
  | Maxim Kvitchenko | F | 25 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Kyiv | Donbass |
  | Vitaliy Liutkevych | D | 20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | Kyiv | (VHL) |
  | Oleksandr Materukhin | LW | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kyiv | Dinamo-Minsk |
  | Alexei Mikhnov | LW | 200 | 45 | 61 | 106 | Kyiv | Atlant |
  | Andriy Mikhnov | LW | 109 | 10 | 12 | 22 | Kyiv | (Belarus) |
  | Yegor Morozov | F | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Tolyatti | Donbass |
  | Artem Ostroushko | D | 51 | 5 | 8 | 13 | Kyiv | - |
  | Denis Petrukhno | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kyiv | Donbass |
  | Fedor Polischuk | LW | 221 | 20 | 48 | 68 | Kolodyste | Barys |
  | Alexei Ponikarovsky | LW | 32 | 5 | 13 | 18 | Kyiv | Kunlun |
  | Gennady Razin | D | 237 | 9 | 29 | 38 | Kharkiv | Donbass |
  | Andrei Sergeyev | D | 104 | 4 | 9 | 13 | Simferopol | Spartak |
  | Oleh Shafarenko | F | 21 | 2 | 4 | 6 | Kyiv | (Belarus) |
  | Vadym Shakhraychuk | C | 103 | 15 | 12 | 17 | Kyiv | Unsigned |
  | Vladislav Shalimov | RW | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Belovo | Donbass |
  | Egor Shastin | F | 141 | 34 | 42 | 76 | Kyiv | (Swiss) |
  | Mykhailo Shevchuk | G | 0 | - | - | - | Kharkiv | Donbass |
  | Denis Shvidki | RW | 37 | 3 | 4 | 7 | Kharkiv | (MOL Liga) |
  | Dmytro Shvidenko | D | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Lubny | Ugra |
  | Yuri Silnitsky | D | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Tyumen | Donbass |
  | Kostiantyn Simchuk | G | 13 | - | - | - | Kyiv | - |
  | Daniil Sobchenko | C | 51 | 6 | 2 | 8 | Kyiv | - |
  | Alexei Strakhov | RW | 25 | 3 | 3 | 6 | Kharkiv | - |
  | Volodymyr Tkachev | D | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Dnipropetrovsk | Ak Bars |
  | Oleksandr Toryanik | RW | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kharkiv | Donbass |
  | Oleg Tverdovsky | D | 191 | 29 | 51 | 80 | Donetsk | - |
  | Serhiy Varlamov | LW | 133 | 24 | 26 | 50 | Kyiv | Donbass |
  | Vitaly Vishnevsky | D | 263 | 25 | 44 | 69 | Kharkiv | Lokomotiv |
  | Alexander Vyukhin | G | 87 | - | - | - | Sverdlovsk | - |
  | Viktor Zakharov | F | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Kyiv | Donbass |
  | Ignat Zemchenko | C | 80 | 9 | 7 | 16 | Kyiv | Severstal |
  | Nikolay Zherdev ★ | RW | 155 | 44 | 78 | 122 | Kyiv | Severstal |
  | Alexei Zhitnik ★ | D | 112 | 4 | 14 | 18 | Kyiv | - |
  
  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
  
  * Ukraine
  * Nationalized to Ukraine
  * Russia
  * Kazakhstan
  * Belarus
  * Neutral
  
  ### Captains
  
  Several players have acted as captains of their respective KHL clubs, including: Alexei Zhitnik (Dynamo Moscow); Vitaly Vishnevsky (SKA); Serhiy Varlamov, Ruslan Fedotenko, (HC Donbass); and Nikolay Zherdev (Atlant)
  
  ## Players of Ukrainian descent
  
  The following is a list of KHL players who while not born in Ukraine, are of documented Ukrainian descent.
  
  * Mikhail Anisin
  * Alexander Eremenko
  * Shaun Heshka
  * Andrei Nikolishin
  