Andrei Kiryukhin

{{short description|Russian ice hockey player}}

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| played_for = Lokomotiv Yaroslavl

| league = KHL

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| image = Andrei Kiryukhin.jpg

| image_size = 250px

| position = Right Wing

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 5

| weight_lb = 199

| shoots = Left

| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1987|8|4}}

| birth_place = Yaroslavl, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2011|09|07|1987|8|4}}

| death_place = Yaroslavl, Russia

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| career_start = 2005

| career_end = 2011

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{{MedalCountry | {{ihj|RUS}} }}

{{MedalSport | Ice hockey}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Junior Championships}}

{{MedalSilver | 2007 Sweden |}}

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Andrei Anatolievich Kiryukhin ({{langx|ru|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).[http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/csl.php?tid=5026 Yaroslavl Lokomotiv's 2010-11 Roster] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120023906/http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/csl.php?tid=5026 |date=2011-01-20 }}

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.'"{{cite web |url=http://www.lifenews.ru/news/68920 | title =First pictures from the crash of Yak-42 near Yaroslavl | publisher =Lifenews.ru | date=2011-09-07 | accessdate=2011-09-07}}{{cite web |url=http://www.lifenews.ru/news/68927 | title =The list of Lokomotiv players who died | publisher =Lifenews.ru | date=2011-09-07 | accessdate=2011-09-07}}{{cite web | url =https://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/hockey/former-nhl-star-pavol-demitra-among-43-killed-in-russian-plane-crash/article2156297/ | title =Pavol Demitra among 43 killed in Russian plane crash | publisher =theglobeandmail.com | date =2011-09-07 | accessdate =2011-09-07 }}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

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