Vitaliy Starukhin
      Vitaliy Starukhin| Personal information | 
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| Full name | Vitaliy Vladimirovich Starukhin | 
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| Date of birth | (1949-06-06)June 6, 1949 | 
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| Place of birth | Minsk, Belarusian SSR | 
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| Date of death | August 9, 2000(2000-08-09) (aged 51) | 
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| Place of death | Donetsk, Ukraine | 
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| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | 
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| Playing position | Striker | 
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| Senior career* | 
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| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† | 
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| 1968–1971 | SKA Odessa | 56 | (28) | 
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| 1971–1972 | Budivelnyk | 24 | (20) | 
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| 1973–1981 | Shakhtar | 217 | (84) | 
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| Total |  | 297 | (132) | 
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| National team | 
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| 1979 | Ukraine |  |  | 
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| 1980 | USSR | 1 | (0) | 
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| Teams managed | 
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| 1981–2000 | Shakhtar (youth teams) | 
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.† Appearances (goals)
 
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Vitaliy Vladimirovich Starukhin (Russian: Старухин, Виталий Владимирович; born June 6, 1949 in Minsk; died August 9, 2000 in Donetsk of pneumonia) was a Soviet Ukrainian professional football player. 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 Blohin and Igor Belanov was named as "the legends of Ukrainian football" at the Victory of Football awards.[4]
Statistics for Shakhtar
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Super Cup | Total | 
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | 
| Shakhtar | 1973 | 28 | 10 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | 31 | 13 | 
| 1974 | 28 | 11 | 8 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 36 | 15 | 
| 1975 | 25 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 25 | 9 | 
| 1976 (s) | 11 | 0 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 14 | 1 | 
| 1976 (a) | 10 | 4 | - | - | 5 | 2 | - | - | 15 | 6 | 
| 1977 | 26 | 9 | 3 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 29 | 10 | 
| 1978 | 25 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | - | - | 36 | 11 | 
| 1979 | 32 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | - | - | 36 | 27 | 
| 1980 | 21 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 31 | 13 | 
| 1981 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 0 | 17 | 5 | 
| Total | 217 | 84 | 41 | 23 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 270 | 110 | 
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Honours
- Soviet Top League top scorer: 1979 (26 goals).
- Soviet Top League runner-up: 1975, 1979.
- Soviet Top League bronze: 1978.
- Soviet Cup winner: 1980.
- Soviet Footballer of the Year: 1979.
- Best rookie player: 1973.
References
- ↑  Краткая энциклопедия побед "Шахтера". Segodnya (in Russian). May 7, 2011. Archived from the original on September 27, 2013. Retrieved September 22, 2013. 
- ↑  "Ukraine - Player of the Year Awards". RSSSF. June 6, 2014. Archived from the original on July 2, 2014. Retrieved November 27, 2014. 
- ↑  Football at the 1979 Spartakiad of the Peoples of USSR
- ↑  Лучшими футболистами Украины признаны Анатолий Тимощук, Андрей Шевченко и Александр Шовковский (in Russian) 51 (346). December 20, 2011. Archived from the original on October 15, 2013. Retrieved June 3, 2013. 
 
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