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