Andrei Kiryukhin Explained

Played For:Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
League:KHL
Height Ft:6
Height In:5
Weight Lb:199
Shoots:Left
Birth Date:1987 8, df=yes
Birth Place:Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Death Place:Yaroslavl, Russia
Career Start:2005
Career End:2011

Andrei Anatolievich Kiryukhin (Russian: Андрей Анатольевич Кирюхин; 4 August 1987 – 7 September 2011) was a Russian professional ice hockey winger who played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).[1]

Besides Lokomotiv, he also played for Lokomotiv-2 (its farm team), Belgorod and Kapitan teams. Playing for Russia at the 2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships he won a silver medal. His father Anatoly Kiryukhin was a football player and coach.

Death

On 7 September 2011, Kiryukhin was killed in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying nearly his entire Lokomotiv team, crashed just outside Yaroslavl, Russia. The team was traveling to Minsk to play their opening game of the season, with its coaching staff and prospects. Lokomotiv officials said "'everyone from the main roster was on the plane plus four players from the youth team.'"[2] [3] [4]

See also

Notes and References

  1. http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/csl.php?tid=5026 Yaroslavl Lokomotiv's 2010-11 Roster
  2. Web site: First pictures from the crash of Yak-42 near Yaroslavl . . 2011-09-07 . 2011-09-07.
  3. Web site: The list of Lokomotiv players who died . . 2011-09-07 . 2011-09-07.
  4. Web site: Pavol Demitra among 43 killed in Russian plane crash . theglobeandmail.com . 2011-09-07 . 2011-09-07 .