# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vitaliy-starukhin
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:00:06.813Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vitaliy-starukhin"
name: "Vitaliy Starukhin"
slug: "vitaliy-starukhin"
description: "Vitaliy Volodymyrovych Starukhin 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."
tagline: "Soviet footballer (1949–2000)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/%D0%97%D1%96%D1%80%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%92%D1%96%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%96%D1%8F_%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D1%85%D1%96%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%90%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%97_%D0%A1%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8_%D0%A8%D0%B0%D1%85%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8F.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Footballers"
  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
  name: "Football / Soccer Player"
  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1949-06-06"
deathDate: "2000-08-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.6
  momentum:             2.970149253731343
  historical:           11.862568
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "ڤيتالى ستاروخين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AE%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "ویتالی استاروخین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_Starukhin"
    title: "Vitali Starukhin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witalij_Staruchin"
    title: "Witalij Staruchin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaliy_Starukhin"
    title: "Vitaliy Starukhin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%AE%DB%8C%D9%86"
    title: "ویتالی استاروخین"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali_Staroukhine"
    title: "Vitali Staroukhine"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalij_Volodimirovics_Sztaruhin"
    title: "Vitalij Volodimirovics Sztaruhin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalij_Staruchin"
    title: "Vitalij Staruchin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitalij_Staroechin"
    title: "Vitalij Staroechin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witalij_Staruchin"
    title: "Witalij Staruchin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D1%85%D0%B8%D0%BD%2C_%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BC%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Старухин, Виталий Владимирович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Старухін Віталій Володимирович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1167109"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump