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As emergency companies combed the scene of the assault on a live performance corridor in Moscow, particulars on a number of the victims started to emerge from officers and native information media.
Most of these recognized to this point seemed to be of their 40s, and lots of had traveled from different components of the nation to attend the live performance the place Piknik, a Russian rock band shaped within the late Seventies, was slated to carry out on Friday night time.
Alexander Baklemyshev, 51, had lengthy dreamed about seeing the band, his son informed native media, and had traveled solo from his dwelling metropolis of Satka, some 1,000 miles east of Moscow, for the live performance.
His son, Maksim, informed the Russian information outlet MSK1 that his father had despatched him a video of the live performance corridor earlier than the assault. That was the final he heard from his father.
“There was no final dialog,” his son stated. “All that was left is the video, and nothing extra.”
Irina Okisheva and her husband, Pavel Okishev, additionally traveled a whole lot of miles to attend the live performance — making their means from Kirov, northeast of Moscow. Mr. Okishev had acquired the tickets as an early birthday current. He was set to show 35 subsequent week, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper reported. Both he and his spouse died within the assault, the paper reported.
“Very painful and scary,” Ms. Okisheva’s colleagues wrote on a social media web page for a photograph studio the place she labored. “The entire studio group is horrified by what occurred.”
Anastasiya Volkova misplaced each of her mother and father within the assault. She informed 5 TV that she had missed a name from her mom on Friday night time at across the time of the assault. When she known as again, there was no response, Ms. Volkova stated.
“I couldn’t reply the telephone. I didn’t hear the decision,” Ms. Volkova informed the broadcaster, including that her mom had been “actually trying ahead to this live performance.”
As the demise toll climbed to 133 folks, the Moscow area’s well being care ministry printed a preliminary listing of victims. It had 41 names; Andrey Rudnitsky was considered one of them.
A ahead in an novice hockey league, he turned 39 years outdated final week, in accordance with his web page on the league’s web site. Mr. Rudnitsky’s teammates informed Pro Gorod, an area information web site, that he had moved to Moscow final yr from Yaroslavl however deliberate to return dwelling to play there. Mr. Rudnitsky had two youngsters.
Ekaterina Novoselova, 42, was additionally on the listing. Ms. Novoselova gained a magnificence pageant in 2001 in her dwelling metropolis of Tver, 110 miles northwest of Moscow, one of many pageant organizer’s informed the native information outlet TIA. It reported that she had moved to Moscow to work as a lawyer and is survived by her husband and two youngsters.
Some folks appeared to have been named by mistake. Yevgeniya Ryumina, 38, informed Komsomolskaya Pravda that she had fled the live performance corridor to security. But she had misplaced her ID, Ms. Ryumina stated, suggesting which may have led to the confusion.
