Honors
In 1998, Valeri Kharlamov was posthumously inducted into the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Hall of Fame.
In November 2005, Kharlamov was posthumously inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame along with Cam Neely and former Hockey Canada president Murray Costello; Kharlamov became only the second Soviet league player to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame without having played in the NHL (the other is former teammate Vladislav Tretiak).
Each year, the Kharlamov Trophy is awarded to the best Russian NHL player as voted by all Russian NHL players.
The Kontinental Hockey League has a division bearing his name. The main trophy of the Minor Hockey League is named the Kharlamov Cup.
Russian hockey players Ilya Kovalchuk and Evgeni Malkin wear the #17 and #71 (reversed 17) respectively, in honour of Kharlamov. The number is retired by both HC CSKA Moscow and the Russian national men's ice hockey team.
American journeyman hockey player Todd Harkins portrayed Kharlamov in the 2004 movie Miracle about the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey team's medal round win over the Soviet Union. In the movie, Kharlamov was portrayed as a right-handed shooting player who played the right wing position. This was a factual error in the movie. Indeed, Valerie Kharlamov did play the right wing position, but he was a left-handed shooting player.
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