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
The following is a list of KHL players who while not born in Ukraine, are of documented
Ukrainian descent.
b Denis Denisov was born in
Kharkiv,
Ukrainian SSR to a military family who relocated to
Tver prior to Ukraine's independence. As a result, he never was a Ukrainian citizen.[59]
c Yuri Silnitsky and Vladislav Shalimov played in the 2012–13 season, but did not gain Ukrainian citizenship until the following year.[60]
Indicates a player who was born in
Russia and became a naturalized Ukrainian citizen
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
The following is a list of KHL players who while not born in Ukraine, are of documented
Ukrainian descent.
b Denis Denisov was born in
Kharkiv,
Ukrainian SSR to a military family who relocated to
Tver prior to Ukraine's independence. As a result, he never was a Ukrainian citizen.[59]
c Yuri Silnitsky and Vladislav Shalimov played in the 2012–13 season, but did not gain Ukrainian citizenship until the following year.[60]
Indicates a player who was born in
Russia and became a naturalized Ukrainian citizen