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WAIPU Mourns Death of Team Members of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl | Deepest Sympathy and Heartfelt Condolences to the Russian Icehockey Family

The World Association of Icehockey Players (WAIPU) is devastated after learning the news of the passing of 43 people among them most oft he team members of Lokomotiv Yarolsavl.

Dr Lucien W Valloni, President of WAIPU:

 "This is a very sad day for Icehockey all over the world. The players who died were very young and very talented. It is with deep regret that we have all learnt of the crash oft he airplane and the passing of 43 people.

On behalf of the World Association of Icehockey Players Unions I want to express our deepest sympathy and heartfelt condolences to the Russian Icehockey Family and their bereaves families and friends, especially those who lost their loved ones. They lost players will be badly missed."

 

Among the victims:

37 ice-hockey players from Lokomotiv hockey team. 26 people of the team are Russian citizens and 11 are foreign citizens, among them is the coach of the team, Canadian Brad Makkriman. Three players from Ukraine and hockey players from Sweden, Slovakia, Belarus, Latvia and Czech Republic are among those killed. One of the players has Russian and German citizenships.

Obituaries

Crash victims

The Yaroslavl Lokomotiv hockey team lost all but one member in Wednesday's crash in Russia. The passenger list, provided by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations:

Passengers
 Vitaly Anikeyenko
 Yury Bakhvalov
 Aleksandr Belyayev
 Mikhail Balandin
 Aleksandr Vasyunov
 Josef Vasicek
 Aleksandr Vyukhin
 Aleksandr Galimov -- in critical condition
 Robert Dietrich
 Pavol Demitra
 Andrei Zimin
 Marat Kalimulin
 Aleksandr Karpovtsev
 Aleksandr Kalyanin
 Andrei Kiryukhin
 Nikita Klyukin
 Igor Korolyov
 Nikolai Krivonosov
 Yevgeny Kunnov
 Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
 Stefan Liv
 Jan Marek
 Brad McCrimmon
 Sergey Ostapchuk
 Vladimir Piskunov
 Karel Rachunek
 Evgeny Sidorov
 Karlis Skrastins
 Ruslan Saley
 Pavel Snurnitsyn
 Daniil Sobchenko
 Ivan Tkachenko
 Pavel Trakhanov
 Igor Urychev
 Gennady Churilov
 Maksim Shuvalov
 Artyom Yarchuk
 Crew
 Andrey Solontsev
 Igor Zhevelov
 Sergei Zhuravlev
 Vladimir Matyushkin
 Aleksandr Sizov -- in critical condition
 Yelena Sarmatova
 Nadezhda Maksumova
 Yelena Shavina

Letter of Condolence of WAIPU President Dr. Lucien W. Valloni to Andrei Kovalenko

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