On 7 September 2011 , Tkachenko was killed in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash , when a Yakovlev Yak-42 passenger aircraft carrying nearly his entire Lokomotiv team crashed just outside Yaroslavl , Russia . The team was traveling to Minsk to play their opening game of the season , with its coaching staff and prospects . Lokomotiv officials said , " Everyone from the main roster was on the plane plus four players from the youth team . " Three weeks after Tkachenko 's death information appeared in the Internet that during the last four years of his life he had anonymously donated almost 10 million rubles ( over 300,000 US dollars ) for the treatment of children suffering from serious diseases . He transferred 500 000 rubles of this amount on the day before his death
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash
Ivan Tkachenko (ice hockey)