Career
Besides Lokomotiv, he also played for Lokomotiv-2 (its farm team), Belgorod and Kapitan teams. His father Anatoly Kiryukhin was a football player and coach. On 7 September 2011, Kiryukhin was killed in the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster, when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft, carrying nearly his entire Lokomotiv team, crashed just outside Yaroslavl, Russia.
The team was traveling to Minsk to play their opening game of the season, with its coaching staff and prospects.
Lokomotiv officials said ""everyone from the main roster was on the plane plus four players from the youth team"".