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 up to now seemed to be of their 40s, and plenty of had traveled from different elements of the nation to attend the live performance the place Piknik, a Russian rock band shaped within the late Nineteen Seventies, was slated to carry out on Friday evening.
Alexander Baklemyshev, 51, had lengthy dreamed about seeing the band, his son told local 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 mentioned. “All that was left is the video, and nothing extra.”
Irina Okisheva and her husband, Pavel Okishev, additionally traveled a whole bunch of miles to attend the live performance — making their method 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. Each he and his spouse died within the assault, the paper reported.
“Very painful and scary,” Ms. Okisheva’s colleagues wrote on a social media page for a photograph studio the place she labored. “The entire studio staff is horrified by what occurred.”
Anastasiya Volkova misplaced each of her mother and father within the assault. She told 5 TV that she had missed a name from her mom on Friday evening at across the time of the assault. When she referred to as again, there was no response, Ms. Volkova mentioned.
“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.”
Because the demise toll climbed to 133 individuals, the Moscow area’s well being care ministry published a preliminary list of victims. It had 41 names; Andrey Rudnitsky was certainly one of them.
A ahead in an newbie hockey league, he turned 39 years previous final week, in response to his web page on the league’s web site. Mr. Rudnitsky’s teammates told Pro Gorod, a neighborhood information web site, that he had moved to Moscow final 12 months from Yaroslavl however deliberate to return dwelling to play there. Mr. Rudnitsky had two kids.
Ekaterina Novoselova, 42, was additionally on the listing. Ms. Novoselova received a magnificence pageant in 2001 in her dwelling metropolis of Tver, 110 miles northwest of Moscow, one of many pageant organizer’s told the local news outlet TIA. It reported that she had moved to Moscow to work as a lawyer and is survived by her husband and two kids.
Some individuals appeared to have been named by mistake. Yevgeniya Ryumina, 38, informed Komsomolskaya Pravda that she had fled the live performance corridor to security. However she had misplaced her ID, Ms. Ryumina mentioned, suggesting that may have led to the confusion.
