Yaroslavl and Minsk football fans remembered the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team players who were killed in an air crash Wednesday. In Yaroslavl, Lokomotiv fans gathered near Arena 2000 stadium.
Yaroslavl and Minsk football fans remembered the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl hockey team players who were killed in an air crash Wednesday. In Yaroslavl, Lokomotiv fans gathered near Arena 2000 stadium.
Fans laid flowers and lit candles to commemorate the players on their favorite team.
From time to time, the fans shouted slogans in support of their favorite club.
Drivers flew scarves and flags with the football team’s logo on their cars as they drove down Moscovsky Avenue in Yaroslavl.
Police upped the security at municipal buildings because of the high concentration of people.
Yaroslavl residents lay flowers and light candles at Arena 2000 stadium to commemorate the Lokomotiv hockey players.
Minsk residents also brought flowers and lit candles at Arena-Minsk stadium where a Kontinental Hockey League game between Yaroslavl’s Lokomotiv and Minsk Dinamo was to have taken place on Thursday.
Yaroslavl’s Lokomotiv team included two Belarusian nationals, Ruslan Salei and Sergei Ostapchuk. Their names were included in the list of passengers killed in the crash.
The telephone network was overloaded in the city. Belarusian radio-stations used the story as their news lead.
A Yak-42 plane, carrying Yaroslavl’s Lokomotiv hockey players, crashed Wednesday at 16:05 Moscow Time. The plane crashed 2.5 kilometers northwest of Yaroslavl airport, near the village of Tunoshna, during ascent. According to the Emergencies Ministry, the plane had 45 people aboard, 37 passengers and eight crew members. Only two, hockey player Alexander Galimov and flight attendant Alexander Sizov, survived and are in serious conditions.
