Russian handball champion Victoria Divak will be buried in Volgograd

“Astrakhanochka”: the funeral of the three-time champion of Russia in handball Victoria Divak will be held in Volgograd

The press service of the handball club “Astrakhanochka” reported on Tuesday that the three-time champion of Russia, playing “Astrakhanochka” Victoria Divak will be buried in Volgograd.

Farewell to the athlete will take place on April 20 at 10:00 in the funeral home “Memory” on Zemlyachki Street, the press service of the club reported.

The tragic death of a 29-year-old athlete became known on Monday, April 17. Divak fell out of the window of an apartment on the 8th floor in Astrakhan. Her body was found in the afternoon near the house. The girl received injuries incompatible with life and died before the arrival of an ambulance.

First of all, we are talking about an accident.

The death of Victoria did not portend anything. How informs “Championship”, on the eve of the tragedy, the handball player took part in the Russian championship match with CSKA, and in the morning before her death she shared with her teammates the news that she had bought a kitten.

“We are all in shock,” the team’s head coach Alexei Alekseev is quoted as saying. “No one really understands what could have happened.”

According to him, back at 11 am, Victoria threw off photos of a new cat to her friends, and at 2 pm she was gone.

Divak began her career in the Volgograd club “Dynamo-Sinara”, with him she won the Russian championship three times. Then the handball player moved to the Krasnodar “Kuban”, performed in the “Halle-Neustadt” (Germany), “Achenheim Truchtersheim” (France) and “Gomel” (Belarus). In 2021, Divak moved to Astrakhanochka.