Anatoly Gerashchenko has died as a result of an “accident”, according to the press service of the Russian organization
The number of members of the Russian elite who die in strange circumstances increases. Anatoly Gerashchenko, former head of the Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), lost his life this Wednesday as a result of an “accident”, according to the organization’s press service, coinciding with the day that President Vladimir Putin makes an appeal to mobilize 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine. According to sources collected by the British newspaper ‘Daily Mail’, Gerashchenko slipped and fell down a flight of stairs at the institute’s headquarters in the Russian capital.
“The staff of the Moscow Aviation Institute expresses its condolences to the family and friends of Anatoly Nikolaevich. This is a colossal loss for the MAI and the scientific and pedagogical community,” the university said in a statement.
Gerashchenko, 73, has spent his entire life working at MAI, one of Russia’s leading scientific research universities responsible for the development of aerospace technology; she is also closely linked to the Ministry of Defense. He had received the Medal of the Order for Services to the Fatherland – First Class – and was a distinguished professor with more than fifty scientific publications that he remained an influential advisor after retiring in 2015.
His death adds to the long list of members of the Russian elite who have died suddenly under mysterious circumstances. Just two weeks ago Ivan Pechorin, Putin’s point man for developing the Arctic’s vast resources, fell overboard while sailing to the country’s Pacific coast.
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