Moscow's former aviation research institute head died on Wednesday after falling off a flight of stairs, joining the growing list of Russian officials who died unexpectedly due to mysterious circumstances.
The Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) announced 72-year-old Anatoly Geraschenko's death as a "result of an accident." Gerashchenko served as the rector of the university from 2007 to 2015, according to the MAI.
The MAI said an investigation into Geraschenko's death will commence, with representatives from the institute, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and the State Labor Inspectorate in Moscow all being involved.
Gerashchenko is the 10th Russian oligarch who has been reported to have died by either a suspicious accidental death or suicide since this year.
Just last Sept.13, the body of the former head of Russia's the Far East and Arctic Development Corporation, Ivan Pechorin, was found washed up ashore more than 100 miles from where he was said to have drowned while riding a speedboat in Vladivostok three days earlier.
The same corporation lost its 43-year-old CEO, Igor Nosov, due to a stroke in February this year.
Ravil Maganov, 67, the executive of Russia’s Lukoil, one of the largest oil and gas vertical integrated companies in the world, died after “he fell out of the window” of an unnamed hospital on Sept.1, according to Russian news agency Interfax.
Six months before the incident, Maganov criticized the conflict with Ukraine.
Last May, one of Lukoil’s former heads, Alexander Subbotin was also found dead and the state media called it “an apparent heart attack."
According to the state-controlled news agency, RIA Novosti, at the time of his death, Geraschenko was the acting adviser to the current rector of the school.
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