| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Vitaliy Vladimirovich Starukhin | ||
| Date of birth | 6 June 1949 | ||
| Place of birth | Minsk, Belarusian SSR | ||
| Date of death | 9 August 2000 (aged 51) | ||
| Place of death | Donetsk, Ukraine | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1968–1971 | SKA Odessa | 56 | (28) |
| 1971–1972 | Budivelnyk | 24 | (20) |
| 1973–1981 | Shakhtar Donetsk | 217 | (84) |
| Total | 297 | (132) | |
| International career | |||
| 1979 | Soviet Union | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1981–2000 | Shakhtar (youth teams) | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Vitaliy Vladimirovich Starukhin (Ukrainian: Старухін, Виталій Володимирович; born 6 June 1949 in Minsk; died 9 August 2000) was a Ukrainian professional footballer who played as a forward. He is considered by many fans to one be the greatest players to ever play for Shakhtar Donetsk.[1]
In 1979, he was awarded Player of the year award.[2] In 1979 Starukhin played couple of games for Ukraine at the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.[3]
In 2011 Vitaly Starukhin, together with Oleg Blokhin and Igor Belanov was named as "the legends of Ukrainian football" at the Victory of Football awards.[4]
- ^ Краткая энциклопедия побед "Шахтера". Segodnya (in Russian). 7 May 2011. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 22 September 2013.
- ^ "Ukraine – Player of the Year Awards". RSSSF. 6 June 2014. Archived from the original on 2 July 2014. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
- ^ Football at the 1979 Spartakiad of the Peoples of USSR
- ^ Лучшими футболистами Украины признаны Анатолий Тимощук, Андрей Шевченко и Александр Шовковский (in Russian). Vol. 51, no. 346. 20 December 2011. Archived from the original on 15 October 2013. Retrieved 3 June 2013.