 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.On 7 September 2011, Kiryukhin was killed in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash, when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying nearly his entire Lokomotiv team, crashed just outside Yaroslavl, Russia.