I Know The Russians Love Their Players, Too

This is a video tribute to the plane crash that occurred in 2011 which killed 43 Russian hockey players, staff members and virtually all of the flight crew. The music and lyrics are inspired by Sting's poingant song, "Russians", with the lyrics altered appropriately. Thanks for watching.

At 4:05 P.M. Moscow Time on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011,
Yak-Service Flight 9633, carrying the players and
coaching staff of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl professional
ice hockey team, crashed near the Russian city of
Yaroslavl. The aircraft ran off the runway before lifting
off, struck a tower mast, caught fire and crashed
2 km (1.2 mi) from Tunoshna.

Of the 45 on board, 43 died at the crash site. One of the
two rescued from the wreck, Alexander Galimov, died
five days later in hospital, while only the avionics flight
engineer Alexander Sizov survived...

PLAYERS
Vitaly Anikeyenko, 24, D, Ukraine
Mikhail Balandin, 31, D, Russia
Gennady Churilov, 24, C, Russia
Pavol Demitra, 36, C, Slovakia
Robert Dietrich, 25, D, Germany
Alexander Galimov, 26, LW, Russia
Marat Kalimulin, 23, D, Russia
Alexander Kalyanin, 23, RW, Russia
Andrei Kiryukhin, 24, RW, Russia
Nikita Klyukin, 21, C, Russia
Stefan Liv, 30, G, Sweden
Jan Marek, 31, C, Czech Republic
Sergei Ostapchuk, 21, LW, Belarus
Karel Rachůnek, 32, D, Czech Republic
Ruslan Sale, 36, D, Belarus
Maxim Shuvalov, 18, D, Russia
Kārlis Skrastiņš, 37, D, Latvia
Pavel Snurnitsyn, 19, LW, Russia
Daniil Sobchenko, 20, C, Ukraine
Ivan Tkachenko, 31, LW, Russia
Pavel Trakhanov, 33, D, Russia
Yuri Urychev, 20, D, Russia
Josef Vašíček, 30, C, Czech Republic
Alexander Vasyunov, 23, LW, Russia
Alexander Vyukhin, 38, G, Ukraine
Artem Yarchuk, 21, LW, Russia

TEAM STAFF
Yuri Bakhvalov, Physician/Massage Therapist
Aleksandr Belyaev, Equipment Mgr/Massage Therapist
Alexander Karpovtsev, 41, Russia, Assistant Coach
Igor Korolev, 41, Russia/Canada, Assistant Coach
Nikolai Krivonosov, 31, Belarus, Fitness Coach
Yevgeni Kunnov, Massage Therapist
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov, Russia, Massage Therapist
Brad McCrimmon, 52, Canada, Head Coach
Vladimir Piskunov, 52, Russia, Administrator
Yevgeni Sidorov, Russia, Coach-Analyst
Andrei Zimin, Team Doctor

FLIGHT CREW
Nadezhda Maksumova, Flight attendant
Vladimir Matyushin, Flight engineer
Elena Sarmatova, Flight attendant
Elena Shavina, Flight attendant
Andrei Solomentsev, Captain
Igor Zhivelov, First Officer
Sergei Zhuravlev, First Officer
God bless them all and may they rest in peace
Бог благословит их всех, и пусть они покоятся с миром

Видео I Know The Russians Love Their Players, Too канала Marc Weissman