List of Ukrainians in the Kontinental Hockey League

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] Note: A (★) denotes a player who has participated in an All Star GameAll statistics accurate to the end of the 2012–13 KHL season 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) The following is a list of KHL players who while not born in Ukraine, are of documented Ukrainian descent.