Valery Viktorovych Shiryaev (; born 28 August 1963) is a retired ice hockey player who played in the Soviet Hockey League. He played for Sokil Kyiv and was named top defenceman in the Soviet League in 1990 and 1991. He won a gold medal in the 1989 World Ice Hockey Championships for the Soviet Union. Later, he played for Ukraine in several World Championships and at the 2002 Winter Olympics. He was named best defenceman at the 1995 C1 Pool World Championships.

He was inducted into the Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame in 1989.

Valery Shiryaev

External links

Russian and Soviet Hockey Hall of Fame bio

1963 births

EHC Biel players

EV Zug players

Genève-Servette HC players

HC Davos players

HC La Chaux-de-Fonds players

Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Olympic ice hockey players for Ukraine

Living people

SC Bern players

SCL Tigers players

Sportspeople from Kharkiv

Soviet ice hockey defencemen

Ukrainian ice hockey defencemen

Ukrainian ice hockey coaches

Sokil Kyiv players

Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR

Valery Shiryaev