Yevgeny Zinichev, the Minister of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, has “tragically died in the line of duty during inter-agency exercises to protect the Arctic zone from emergency situations, while saving a person’s life,” the ministry said on Wednesday in a statement circulated by Russian news agencies.
The ministry didn’t offer any details about where exactly or how he died. According to its website, in recent days Zinichev, 55, was on a trip to the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk. On Tuesday, he opened large-scale drills spanning seven regions in the Russian Arctic that were scheduled to last through Wednesday.
In a statement cited by Associated Press, the ministry said Zinichev died while trying to save prominent film director Alexander Melnik.
In 2016, Zinichev had a two-month stint as an acting governor of Russia’s westernmost Kaliningrad region. For a long time before that, he was part of President Vladimir Putin’s personal security detail.
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