Arpik Asratyan, an epidemiologist.
She died in Moscow at the age of 69 on the 27th of March 2020. She was the only victim on that day and the fourth victim of COVID-19 in the total count. Her husband, also a scientist, died from COVID-19 10 days later. They lived together for 45 years and raised two children, both doctors.
Soon the death count began to grow rapidly.

Bishop Veniamin.
He died in Kursk at the age of 54 on the 26th of April 2020. In the early days of the virus spread, some groups of people were particularly exposed to virus. Medicals workers. Those who work in catering and transport. Clergy.
Coronavirus death toll has reached a thousand people by the end of April.

Julien Balmusov, an actor, died in Moscow at the age of 79.
The end of May were the peak days of the first wave of COVID 19. 232 people died in one day.
Soon both the death count and the cases count started going down. The government decided to loosen up the lockdown restrictions. Without really preparing for the next wave.

The second wave was more deadly. By its peak in the end of December, as many as 624 people died in one day. One of them was Vladimir Bakin, Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the Kirov Region. He passed away on the 25th of December 2020.

On the 8th of April 2021, the death tool reached a threshold of 100 000 people. One of them was Igor Ivanov, a scientist, who died in Yegorievsk at the age of 83. 'A wonderful field worker, caring comrade, selfless and modest, he devoted his whole life to serving Science', says the obituary on the Institute's website.

Despite the vaccination available for everybody as early as January 2020, the rate of vaccination in Russia was very low. The third wave was even more severe, and more people have died than ever. The absolute maximum was 789 people dying in one day. One of them was Evgeny Mikerin, a scientist, who died at the age of 93 in Moscow. He participated in the elimination of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

Irina Antonova, Soviet and Russian art scholar, specialist in Italian painting of the Renaissance. Director and President of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. Doctor of Art History.

Vladimir Menshov, director who won Oscar in 1981 but could not attend the ceremony because of the Cold War.

Elena Kataeva, a university rector.
"Despite my deep conviction in my own invulnerability, it turned out to be an illusion and I caught COVID,” she wrote on her Facebook page.