Date
22/08/1999  
First
Sergei  
Surname
Shcherbovich  
Sex/Age
M, 43  
Incident
not confirmed  
Motive
nJ  
Place
river Pecha  
Job
cameraman  
Medium
TV  
Federal District Plus
 
Street, Town, Region
district, Murmansk Region  
Freelance
no  
Local/National
local, RTR  
Other Ties
 
Cause of Death
?drowned  
Legal Qualification
no information  
Impunity
investigation  


On 22 August 1999 local fishermen found the bodies of Yevgeny Vedernikov and Sergei Shcherbovich in a jeep stranded in the River Pecha (Murmansk Region)

Vedernikov, director of Nostalgie-Murmansk radio station, and organiser of the international Arctic trophy car rally, left Murmansk several days previously with cameraman Shcherbovich in a specially prepared vehicle. They intended to test the route of the rally which had taken place each September since the early 1990s on the Kola peninsula.

When found the jeep was 4 feet deep in the river. Investigators could find no signs of violence. The two men were experienced rally drivers. They became stranded in the river at night time and were trying to pull the vehicle clear but might have been overcome by the cold.