VOLGOGRAD, August 28 (RIA Novosti's Irina Ilyicheva) - The funeral of 16 victims of the crash of Tu-134 aircraft, which was heading from Moscow to Volgograd on August 24, took place in the Volgograd region.
The administration of the Volgograd region has born the funeral expenses.
Eight TU-134 crewmen will be buried in Volgograd's central cemetery on Sunday, August 29 (there were 24 residents of the Volgograd region on board the Tu-134).
Three-day mourning for the victims will be observed in the region.
Rescuers of the Russian Emergencies Ministry have stopped the search at the site of the Tu-134 crash in the Tula region, a duty officer of the Tula civil defense and emergencies department reported.
Experts investigating the catastrophe are currently working at the site, he added.
Tu-134 and Tu-154 passenger liners crashed on August 24 night killing 90 people.
