Two of the victims came from Nakhodka. Vadim Konoplev was born in 1965, the second ship's mechanic, and Olga Dorosina born in 1979 - barmaid vessel. Two other victims - from Khabarovsk: Chef Maria Parshin, born in 1962 and the trainee electrician Andrew Sakhonenko born in 1959, told ITAR-TASS the chairman of the Far Eastern regional organization of the Russian Seamen's Union Nikolai Sukhanov.
Ship with a cargo timber left on January 9 from Nakhodka in Japan, hence the ship headed for its last voyage to China for recycling. The incident occurred with a cargo vessel on Feb. 9 to 16 miles from the South Korean port of Ulsan. "Alexander" was faced with a South Korean container ship capacity. Steam-ship split into two parts, feed, in which there are cabins, sank immediately at a depth of 140 meters. Foreship afloat until February 13 and on the same day went to the bottom at a depth of 92 meters.
The crew of "Alexander" consisted of twelve Russian sailors. escaped, only 33-year-old sailor Ruslan Drichev of Nakhodka. Four killed, seven missing. Their search for the Coast Guard of the Republic of Korea led by 19 February, but nobody has found .