Salei died on September 7 , 2011 , in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash . A Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft , carrying almost the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team of the Kontinental Hockey League ( KHL ) , crashed near Yaroslavl , Russia , en route to Minsk , Belarus , to start the 2011 – 12 KHL season
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
Ruslan Salei