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Yaroslavl paid last respects to dead Lokomotiv team
YAROSLAVL, northeastern Russia, September 11 (Itar-Tass) - Yaroslavl paid last respects to the diseased Lokomotiv hockey team that tragically died in an air crash near Yaroslavl on September 7. The air crash claimed the lives of 43 people. Apart from Russian players there were citizens of seven foreign countries, including Canada, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia, Sweden, Belarus and Ukraine.
A civil memorial service was held at the Arena-2000 sport complex in Yaroslavl on Saturday. Despite bad weather and torrential rain about 100,000 Lokomotiv fans from Yaroslavl and other parts of Russia paid their last respects to the dead hockey players.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was also among those who came to say good-bye to the dead. He laid two red carnations under the
photograph of each hockey-player.
After that, the premier held a brief meeting with sport experts to discuss how to preserve the Yaroslavl hockey team. The meeting was attended by Vladislav Tretyak, the president of the Russian Hockey Federation, Alexander Medvedev, the president of the KHL (Continental Hockey League), Rene Fasel, the president of the International Ice-Hockey Federation, Vitaly Mutko, the Russian Minister for Sport and Tourism, Vyacheslav Fetisov, the chairman of the KHL board of directors, and presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich. The memorial service lasted for several hours.
"It's a grief for all of us. We could only see that in a nightmare that the Arena-2000 complex will turn into a place where the city is going to pay its last respects to its pride - the Lokomotiv team," Sergei Vakhrukov, the governor of the Yaroslavl region, told Itar-Tass.
"We can cope with this grief only together. We will do everything we can for the relatives of the dead hockey players. We won't let them to feel lonely and forgotten. The team's revival is the best thing we can do in memory of these boys," Vakhrukov went on to say.
The Yak-42 plane with the Lokomotiv ice-hockey team onboard crashed
shortly after taking off from Tunoshna airport near Yaroslavl. The team
was heading for Minsk to play a match against the local team Dynamo
(Minsk). Out of 45 people on board only two survived the crash. They are
flight engineer Alexander Sizov and hockey-player Alexander Galimov.
The entire Lokomotiv team - 37 people - died in the crash.
Memorials will be unveiled in memory of the victims at the crash
site near the village of Tunoshna near Yaroslavl and near the Arena-2000
sport palace in Yaroslavl.
A civil memorial service was held at the Arena-2000 sport complex in Yaroslavl on Saturday. Despite bad weather and torrential rain about 100,000 Lokomotiv fans from Yaroslavl and other parts of Russia paid their last respects to the dead hockey players.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was also among those who came to say good-bye to the dead. He laid two red carnations under the
photograph of each hockey-player.
After that, the premier held a brief meeting with sport experts to discuss how to preserve the Yaroslavl hockey team. The meeting was attended by Vladislav Tretyak, the president of the Russian Hockey Federation, Alexander Medvedev, the president of the KHL (Continental Hockey League), Rene Fasel, the president of the International Ice-Hockey Federation, Vitaly Mutko, the Russian Minister for Sport and Tourism, Vyacheslav Fetisov, the chairman of the KHL board of directors, and presidential aide Arkady Dvorkovich. The memorial service lasted for several hours.
"It's a grief for all of us. We could only see that in a nightmare that the Arena-2000 complex will turn into a place where the city is going to pay its last respects to its pride - the Lokomotiv team," Sergei Vakhrukov, the governor of the Yaroslavl region, told Itar-Tass.
"We can cope with this grief only together. We will do everything we can for the relatives of the dead hockey players. We won't let them to feel lonely and forgotten. The team's revival is the best thing we can do in memory of these boys," Vakhrukov went on to say.
The Yak-42 plane with the Lokomotiv ice-hockey team onboard crashed
shortly after taking off from Tunoshna airport near Yaroslavl. The team
was heading for Minsk to play a match against the local team Dynamo
(Minsk). Out of 45 people on board only two survived the crash. They are
flight engineer Alexander Sizov and hockey-player Alexander Galimov.
The entire Lokomotiv team - 37 people - died in the crash.
Memorials will be unveiled in memory of the victims at the crash
site near the village of Tunoshna near Yaroslavl and near the Arena-2000
sport palace in Yaroslavl.
