Sergei Igorevich Ostapchuk (
Belarusian: Сяргей Астапчук (Siarhej Astapchuk); March 19, 1990 – September 7, 2011) was an
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...
player. He was playing with
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl
Hockey Club Lokomotiv (russian: ХК Локомотив, en, Locomotive HC), also known as Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, is a Russian professional ice hockey team, based in the city of Yaroslavl, playing in the top level Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) ...
in the
Kontinental Hockey League
The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХЛ), Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs ba ...
(KHL).
Ostapchuk died on September 7, 2011 in the
2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
On 7 September 2011, YAK-Service Flight 9633, a Yakovlev Yak-42 air charter, charter flight operated by Yak-Service, YAK-Service carrying players and coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional ice hockey team, crashed on take-off nea ...
disaster. The plane was carrying the Lokomotiv hockey team from Yaroslavl to
Minsk
Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...
, the capital of Belarus, where it was to play against
Dinamo Minsk in the 2011 season opening game of the KHL.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
See also
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References
External links
Huskies Player Page & Statistics*
1990 births
2011 deaths
Belarusian ice hockey right wingers
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl players
People from Navapolatsk
Rouyn-Noranda Huskies players
Victims of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
Sportspeople from Vitebsk Region
Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Canada
Belarusian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Expatriate ice hockey players in Canada
Expatriate ice hockey players in Russia
Belarusian expatriate ice hockey people
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