List of Ukrainians in the Kontinental Hockey League


The following is a list of Ukrainians in the Kontinental Hockey League. For the 2014-15 season, Ukrainians constitute the 14th most numerous nationality within the league. 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 Kiev in celebration. According to Sokil Kyiv general manager Vyacheslav Zavalniuk, 13.5% of all players in the KHL have Ukrainian roots.

Players

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

Captains

Several players have acted as captains of their respective KHL clubs, including: Alexei Zhitnik ; Vitaly Vishnevsky ; Serhiy Varlamov, Ruslan Fedotenko, ; and Nikolay Zherdev

Players of Ukrainian descent

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