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Alexander Galimov, only player to survive Russian plane crash, dies on Astini News
Posted on Friday, September 16, 2011 by astini
Updated: September 14, 2011, 2:34 PM ET
MOSCOW -- The only member of a top Russian hockey team to survive a plane crash that killed 44 people died Monday of his injuries in a Moscow hospital.
The Vishnevsky hospital said 26-year-old Alexander Galimov died of the severe burns that covered about 90 percent of his body, despite the best efforts of doctors in its burn unit, considered one of the best in Russia.
The crash Wednesday of a chartered Yak-42 jet outside the western city of Yaroslavl took the lives of 37 players, coaches and staff of the local Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey club. The only other person to survive, flight crew member Alexander Sizov, remained in intensive care at Moscow's Sklifosovsky hospital.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev presided over a meeting Monday to decide the future of Lokomotiv Yaroslavl. The team decided to pull out of the Kontinental Hockey League for a year while it rebuilds, but will bring up players from its farm system and compete in a lower league starting in December.
"We can't leave the city without hockey," Vsevolod Kukushkin, an adviser to the KHL, told The Associated Press. "It's a hockey city."
Unlike many other members of Lokomotiv who were European Union citizens and once played in the NHL, Galimov was a native of Yaroslavl and a product of its youth program.
His death is certain to be deeply mourned in the city, where the team's consistently strong performance was a source of great pride.
At rallies following the crash, fans chanted "Galimov, live for the whole team!" and other slogans dedicated to him.
"All of Yaroslavl, all of the country, all of the world followed the doctors' words, believing, hoping, praying that he would defeat death and remain with us," Yaroslavl Gov. Sergei Vakhrukov said.
The governor described Galimov, a forward, as a fan favorite who remained true to his home club for many years.
Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty ImagesAlexander Galimov was a native of Yaroslavl and came up through Lokomotiv's youth program to play in the KHL.
"He carried the team spirit of Lokomotiv and through his indomitable character often reversed the course of the most difficult games," Vakhrukov said.
A memorial ceremony Saturday in the Lokomotiv ice arena drew an estimated 100,000 people, including Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
The crash, one of the worst ever aviation disasters in sports, shocked all of Russia and the international hockey community.
The team was heading to Minsk, Belarus, to play its opening game of the Kontinental Hockey League season when the plane crashed into the Volga River bank shortly after takeoff and burst into flames.
In the Czech Republic, the start of the Czech hockey league season will be postponed due to the funeral of Jan Marek, one of the three Czech crash victims.
The Czech league announced Monday that the start of the season will be postponed from Friday to Sunday because of Marek's funeral on Friday in the town of Jindrichuv Hradec.
Karel Rachunek will be buried in Zlin on Wednesday and Josef Vasicek's funeral is scheduled for Thursday in Havlickuv Brod.
They helped the Czech national team win the world championship in 2005 and 2010.
The Dallas Stars announced on Monday that they will wear a "37" decal on the back of their helmets this season in memory of defenseman Karlis Skrastins who died in the crash.
Skrastins wore No. 37 the last two seasons for the Stars.
The Stars also said they will hold a short remembrance and moment of silence prior to the team's first home preseason game on Sept. 22 against Colorado, remembering Skrastins.
Russian aviation experts say they have come to no conclusions yet about the cause of the crash. The plane appeared to have trouble gaining altitude, but investigators said its flight data recorders showed that all three engines were operating up until the moment the plane crashed.
Aviation authorities have also launched safety checks on all of the approximately 60 Yak-42 jets still in service in Russia, and grounded at least four of them.
Experts blame Russia's poor aviation safety record on an aging fleet, weak government controls, poor pilot training and a cost-cutting mentality.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
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