Russian authorities confirmed on Sunday that the ten individuals killed within the crash of a personal airplane north of Moscow on Aug. 23 had been people who had been listed on the jet’s manifest.
Probably the most outstanding was Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, 62, the businessman and chief of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, who two months earlier had led a quick mutiny towards Russia’s navy management. He was buried in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Tuesday.
One other was Dmitri Utkin, 53, a longtime Prigozhin lieutenant. The Wagner mercenary group took its identify from his name signal,which he had chosen to honor the composer Richard Wagner, a favourite of Adolf Hitler’s. Mr. Utkin was buried exterior of Moscow on Thursday, in keeping with Russian media experiences.
Others on board had been Wagner associates, and three had been the flight’s crew: two pilots and a flight attendant. Right here’s what The Occasions has realized about them.
Valeriy Chekalov
Wagner’s logistics chief, Mr. Chekalov, 47, oversaw lots of Mr. Prigozhin’s tasks overseas, together with in Syria and Africa, in keeping with the File Heart, a London-based Russian opposition information outlet.
Final month, the State Division imposed sanctions on Mr. Chekalov for appearing on behalf of Mr. Prigozhin and facilitating shipments of munitions to Russia.
He was buried on Tuesday in Northern Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Yevgeny Makaryan
Mr. Makaryan joined Wagner in March 2016 and fought for Wagner assault troops in Syria in 2018, in keeping with the File Heart.
He was wounded that 12 months, in keeping with the middle, when U.S. plane responded to an assault. A New York Occasions reconstruction of the battle stated that pro-Syrian fighters, together with Wagner mercenaries, had attacked U.S., Kurdish and Arab forces in western Syria in one of many bloodiest battles involving American troops preventing the Islamic state.
Sergei Propustin
Mr. Propustin, 44, was one among Mr. Prigozhin’s private bodyguards.
He was from Novocherkassk within the Rostov area of Russia, a neighborhood information outlet reported.
He had fought within the second Chechen conflict, which led to 2009, in keeping with the File Heart. Russian media reported he was wounded.
The media experiences stated he joined Wagner in March 2015, and had moved to St. Petersburg quickly after assembly Mr. Prigozhin, although it was unclear when that was.
Nikolay Matyuseyev
The File Heart stated it couldn’t discover an individual with that identify on lists of Wagner personnel however did discover a Nikolai Matusevich, who had served with Wagner since January 2017 and had fought in Syria.
Alexander Totmin
Based on his social media accounts, Mr. Totmin, 28, additionally was one among Mr. Prigozhin’s private bodyguards. Biographical data and posts on the accounts say that he was a local of the Altai Territory in western Siberia.
Alexey Levshin
Mr. Levshin was the airplane’s pilot. He was from the Tambov area of Russia, which lies south of Moscow and some hundred miles east of the Ukrainian border, and had all the time needed to be a pilot, in keeping with interviews together with his members of the family by Russian media.
The experiences stated he had attended the Sasovsky Civil Aviation Flight Faculty within the Ryazan area, which lies between Tambov and Moscow, in addition to the St. Petersburg Academy of Civil Aviation.
His spouse, Svetlana, advised Russian media that he had labored within the aviation trade for seven years, and had been dwelling briefly earlier than leaving for the flight that crashed.
His daughter, Anastasia, advised a Russian TV station, RBK, that he labored with Mr. Prigozhin for a number of years. “Dad was an excellent particular person,” she stated. “He was open, with a form coronary heart, helped everybody, liked life, was a diligent, fantastic father and husband. Cherished us very a lot, we all the time felt it, caring, beneficiant, an actual household man.”
Rustam Karimov
Mr. Karimov, 29, was the airplane’s co-pilot. Based on Russian media, he was born in Perm, an industrial middle close to the Ural Mountains, and lived in St. Petersburg.
His father, Shukur Karimov, advised Russian media that Mr. Karimov had served within the navy earlier than working for S7 Airways, one among Russia’s largest passenger carriers. He moved to St. Petersburg for a brand new job two months in the past.
Earlier than his final flight, Mr. Karimov had referred to as his mom to tell her he can be flying.
It’s unclear whether or not Mr. Karimov was identified to have labored with Mr. Prigozhin prior to now. His father stated that his son couldn’t have identified that Mr. Prigozhin can be on board, including that he was “only a pilot.”
Kristina Raspopova
Ms. Raspopova, 39, was the airplane’s flight attendant and the one girl on board.
Born in Kazakhstan, she had attended Moscow Finance and Regulation College, and was divorced, in keeping with her Fb web page. Based on her social media profiles, Ms. Raspopova was a “V.I.P. stewardess” who lived in Moscow, her hometown.
Her final Fb publish, an image of her suitcase and a meal, got here a day earlier than the airplane crashed.
