Russian authorities confirmed on Sunday that the 10 people who died when a private plane crashed north of Moscow on August 23 were those listed in the plane’s manifest.
The most prominent was Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, 62, the businessman and leader of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, who had led a brief mutiny against the Russian military leadership two months earlier. He was buried Tuesday in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Another was Dmitri Utkin, 53, a long-time lieutenant of Prigozhin. The Wagner mercenary group took its name from his call sign, which he chose to honor the composer Richard Wagner, a favorite of Adolf Hitler. According to Russian media reports, Mr. Utkin was buried outside Moscow on Thursday.
Wagner employees and three members of the flight crew were also on board: two pilots and a flight attendant. Here’s what The Times learned about her.
Valery Chekalov
According to Dossier Centre, a London-based Russian opposition news agency, Mr Wagner’s logistics chief, Mr Chekalov, 47, oversaw many of Mr Prigozhin’s projects abroad, including in Syria and Africa.
Last month, the State Department imposed sanctions on Mr. Chekalov for acting on behalf of Mr. Prigozhin and facilitating munitions shipments to Russia.
He was buried Tuesday at Northern Cemetery in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Yevgeny Makaryan
According to the Dossier Center, Mr. Makaryan joined Wagner in March 2016 and fought for Wagner strike forces in Syria in 2018.
According to the center, he was wounded this year when U.S. aircraft responded to an attack. A reconstruction of the battle in The New York Times said pro-Syrian fighters, including Wagner mercenaries, attacked U.S., Kurdish and Arab forces in western Syria in one of the bloodiest battles involving American troops against the Islamic State fought.
Sergei Propustin
Mr. Propustin, 44, was one of Mr. Prigozhin’s personal bodyguards.
He was from Novocherkassk in the Rostov region of Russia, a local news agency reported.
According to the Dossier Center, he fought in the second Chechen war, which ended in 2009. Russian media reported that he was injured.
The media reports said he joined Wagner in March 2015 and moved to St. Petersburg shortly after meeting Mr. Prigozhin, although it was unclear when that was.
Nikolay Matyuseyev
The Dossier Center said it could not find a person by that name on the Wagner personnel lists, but could find one Nikolai Matusevich, who had served with Wagner since January 2017 and fought in Syria.
Alexander Totmin
According to his social media accounts, Mr. Totmin, 28, was also one of Mr. Prigozhin’s personal bodyguards. Biographical information and posts on the accounts say he was from the Altai Territory in Western Siberia.
Alexey Levshin
Mr. Levshin was the pilot of the plane. He was from the Tambov region of Russia, which is south of Moscow and a few hundred miles east of the Ukrainian border, and always wanted to be a pilot, according to Russian media interviews with his family members.
According to the reports, he had attended the Sasovsky Civil Aviation Flight School in the Ryazan region, which lies between Tambov and Moscow, and the St. Petersburg Academy of Civil Aviation.
His wife Svetlana told Russian media that he worked in the aviation industry for seven years and was home briefly before leaving for the crashed flight.
His daughter Anastasia told Russian television channel RBK that he had worked with Mr. Prigozhin for several years. “Dad was a very good person,” she said. “He was open, had a kind heart, helped everyone, loved life, was a hard-working, wonderful father and husband. We really liked it, we always felt that he was caring, generous, a real family man.”
Rustam Karimov
Mr. Karimov, 29, was the plane’s co-pilot. According to Russian media, he was born in Perm, an industrial center near the Ural Mountains, and lived in St. Petersburg.
His father, Shukur Karimov, told Russian media that Mr. Karimov served in the military before working for S7 Airlines, one of Russia’s largest passenger airlines. He moved to St. Petersburg two months ago for a new job.
Before his last flight, Mr Karimov had called his mother to tell her he was flying.
It is unclear whether Mr. Karimov was known to have worked with Mr. Prigozhin in the past. His father said his son had no way of knowing Mr Prigozhin would be on board, adding that he was “just a pilot”.
Kristina Raspopova
Ms. Raspopova, 39, was the plane’s flight attendant and the only woman on board.
She was born in Kazakhstan, attended Moscow University of Finance and Law and was divorced, according to her Facebook page. According to her social media profiles, Ms. Raspopova was a “VIP stewardess” who lived in Moscow, her hometown.
Her last Facebook post, a picture of her suitcase and a meal, came the day before the plane crash.
— Gaya Gupta and Valeriya Safronova