Ruslan Salei and Sergei Ostapchuk dead

The Russian Emergency Ministry has released the names of passengers and crew members on board of the crashed Yak-42 jet.

Players of the Yaroslavl-based Lokomotiv ice hockey team were flying to Minsk for a game of the Kontinental Hockey League. Belarusian players Ruslan Salei and Sergei Ostapchuk are among the dead.

Crew

1. Andrei Solontsev

2. Igor Zhevelov

3. Sergei Zhuravlyov

4. Vladimir Matyushkin

5. Aleksandr Sizov (alive)

6. Yelena Sarmatova

7. Nadezhda Maksumova

8. Yelena Shavina

Passengers

1. Vitaly Anikeyenko

2. Yury Bakhvalov

3. Aleksandr Belyayev

4. Mikhail Balandin

5. Aleksandr Vasyunov

6. Josef Vasicek

7. Aleksandr Vyukhin

8. Aleksandr Galimov (alive)

9. Robert Dietrich

10. Pavol Demitra

11. Andrei Zimin

12. Marat Kalimulin

13. Aleksandr Karpovtsev

14. Aleksandr Kalyanin

15. Andrei Kiryukhin

16. Nikita Klyukin

17. Igor Korolyov

18. Nikolai Krivonosov

19. Yevgeny Kunnov

20. Vyacheslav Kuznetsov

21. Stefan Liv

22. Jan Marek

23. Brad McCrimmon

24. Sergey Ostapchuk

25. Vladimir Piskunov

26. Karel Rachunek

27. Evgeny Sidorov

28. Karlis Skrastins

29. Ruslan Saley

30. Pavel Snurnitsyn

31. Daniil Sobchenko

32. Ivan Tkachenko

33. Pavel Trakhanov

34. Igor Urychev

35. Gennady Churilov

36. Maksim Shuvalov

37. Artyom Yarchuk

The Russian Emergency Ministry confirmed to BelaPAN news agency that Belarusian players were killed. However, some media report that Salei was not on board – he had arrived in Minsk earlier.