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Coffin with body the late head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Army General Yevgeny Zinichev, will hand over a special IL-76 from Moscow to St. Petersburg on Friday, September 10. The RIA Novosti agency informed about it with reference to a source familiar with the information.
As it turned out, four planes will take off from Moscow to St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport. A carriage with Zinichev's body will be installed on a special board Il-76, and relatives and friends of the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations will also fly with this aircraft. In addition, two SuperJet-100s and one An-148 will fly from Moscow.
Recall that the Minister of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, Army General Yevgeny Zinichev, died tragically during an exercise of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Norilsk trying to save director Alexander Melnik (also died). The President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, posthumously awarded Evgeny Zinichev the title of Hero of Russia with his decree of 9 September.