Daughter of Sochi Mayor killed in accident
Sochi News July 21st, 2007
Edit: I apologise, Valeria was Viktor’s daughter, not his granddaughter.
Five years old daughter of Viktor Kolodyazhny died today in a hospital after road accident on Friday. On Friday night, Kolodyazhny with his family was taking a ride in tourist carriage in St. Petersburg, when their carriage was hit from behind by a car. Valeria Kolodyazhnaya fell out of carriage and under car’s wheels. The driver is arrested; he did not try to evade the place of the accident.
Sad :-(
Video: Viktor Kolodyazhny and his daughter Valeria support Sochi Olympic bid.
July 21st, 2007 at 18:01
That is sad. My condolences to the family.
July 24th, 2007 at 15:56
This is so sad my condolences to the family.I’am told I could be related to victor,we are the Kolodiazny’s in Canada.
July 24th, 2007 at 23:00
I just found out that Valeria was Viktor’s daughter, not his granddaughter, as most news reported.
Kerry, did you ever try to contact them and find out? I don’t know the personal address of Viktor Kolodyazhny, but if you write to the city administration, the letter will most likely get to his hands.
If you ever want to try, here’s their address (write in cyrillics on letter):
Виктор Колодяжный
ул. Советская, 26
г.Сочи, Краснодарский край,
Россия, 354061
July 24th, 2007 at 23:02
After the accident, all carriage rides are banned in St. Petersburg, possibly perminately.
August 3rd, 2007 at 14:11
No I have’nt tried to contact them and find out but it is amazing in that my family lives in Vancouver,Canada the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics and Victor is Mayor of Sochi the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics!I did find out that there is a Kolodiazne Village which is famous as Leska Ukrainka’s father built a number of house’s there and today it is the site of the greatest Unkarainian poetess’s museum!As with our Canadianized name of Kolodiany,a few letter’s were switched around upon my grandfather Kornielius arrival in Halifax from Hamburg in 1930,they dropped the h and kept the n thinking they were a double n but it was h,n we think.But the pronounciation of victor’s last name and our last name is identical!
August 3rd, 2007 at 14:17
No I have’nt tried to contact them and find out but it is amazing in that my family lives in Vancouver,Canada the site of the 2010 Winter Olympics and Victor is Mayor of Sochi the site of the 2014 Winter Olympics!I did find out that there is a Kolodiazne Village which is famous as Leska Ukrainka’s father built a number of house’s there and today it is the site of the “Greatest Ukrainian Poetess’s” museum!As with our Canadianized name of Kolodiazny,a few letter’s were switched around upon my grandfather Kornielius arrival in Halifax from Hamburg in 1930,the Canadian immigration official dropped the h and kept the n ,thinking they were a double n but it was h and then n ,we think.But the pronounciation of Victor’s last name and our last name is identical!
August 3rd, 2007 at 14:44
Lesya Ukrainka grew up in Kolodiazhne,her family lived there for over a half century and she lived in Kolodiazhne for a quarter of a century.She wrote almost all her great stuff there.It’s in the Volyn Region,the houses are still there having somehow survived both World Wars.The Eastern front in World War 1 went right through Kolodiazhne!If you want to visit it is the Lesya Ukrainka Museum in Kolodiazhne,Volyn,Ukraine.And it contain’s all kinds of her stuff with autograph’s and everything.Good-Luck Kerry.
August 11th, 2007 at 11:44
My grandfather Kornielius Kolodiazny remembered Russian troops being bayonetted while they were hiding in haystacks around the village.Austro-Hungarian,German and Russian troops fought all around where he grew up.Korny joined Pulsudski’s army in 1921 and became a Polish citizen when Poland was formed.His army records were wiped out when Hitler destroyed Poland’s archives.He had a sister in the Ukraine,who survived Hitler’s einsatzgruppen by being shoved up the chimminey of their house!
August 18th, 2007 at 11:46
The poor child I feel so bad for victor.
October 9th, 2007 at 12:15
I hope they lock up the driver in Siberia!,i’am so sorry for the Kolodiahny’s
July 10th, 2008 at 1:19
I hate St.Petersburg!!!!!!
September 10th, 2008 at 15:50
I knew a Kolodiazny when I was in the war in Yugoslavia,he was killed,he was a really great guy and i think we just buried him there.I can’t remember his first name but he was in the Ukrainian Army and his last name was Kolodiazny.Maybe he is related to Victor as well.I’am not sure how to track down his death,I think he was killed in 1994.
June 21st, 2010 at 22:48
I knew the Kolodiazny’s,they lived beside us in Ternopol,Ukraine.I wonder if this is Victors relatives?I will be going to Sochi for the 2014 Olympics I will see if i can talk to Victor.I remember some of the Kolodiazny’s as having red hair which was strange for our city.
August 3rd, 2010 at 19:00
I hope Sochi has a great winter olympics as a testament to victors hard work and sacrifice after the hoorible accident that happened in St.Petersburg
October 26th, 2010 at 1:51
It is so damned tricky,trying to get around St.Petersburg.My friend was killed there in September,just walking on the side walk.