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Polish president died in plane crash at Smolensk.

Posted by Gregory Kowalski (Beijing, China) on 10 April 2010 in People & Portrait.

Image source: http://www.prezydent.pl

On 10 April 2010, The President of Poland Lech Kaczyński died at Smolensk.
Tupolev Tu-154M crashed 2 km next to Smolensk-North Airport in Russia. It has killed all aboard include Polish president, his wife, members of the Polish government, the country's legislative branch, high commanders of the Polish Armed Forces and other Polish dignitaries.

Whole Polish delegation was on the way to commemoration ceremony of the 70 th anniversary of the Katyn massacre.

# Lech Kaczyński, President of Poland and former chair of the PiS party
# Maria Kaczyńska, First Lady of Poland

* Ryszard Kaczorowski, the last President of the Polish government-in-exile
* Krystyna Bochenek, Deputy Speaker of the Senat
* Archbishop Miron Chodakowski, Orthodox Ordinary of the Polish Army
* Leszek Deptuła, member of the Sejm
* Grzegorz Dolniak, member of the Sejm
* Janina Fetlińska, member of the Senat
* General Franciszek Gągor, Chief of the Polish Army General Staff
* Grażyna Gęsicka, member of the Sejm
* Przemysław Gosiewski, member of the Sejm and former Deputy Prime Minister
* Mariusz Handzlik, Undersecretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
* Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, member of the Sejm, former Deputy Prime Minister and former chair of the UP party

* Sebastian Karpiniuk, member of the Sejm
* Vice Admiral Andrzej Karweta, Commander-in-chief of the Polish Navy
* Janusz Kochanowski, Polish Ombudsman
* Andrzej Kremer, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
* Janusz Kurtyka, Historian and president of the Institute of National Remembrance
* Aleksandra Natalli-Świat, member of the Sejm
* Piotr Nurowski, President of the Polish Olympic Committee
* Maciej Płażyński, President of the Polish Community Association, former Marshall of the Sejm and former chair of the PO party
* Tadeusz Płoski, bishop of the Military Ordinariate of the Polish Army
* Krzysztof Putra, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm
* Andrzej Przewoźnik, Secretary-General of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites
* Ryszard Rumianek, Rector of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University
* Arkadiusz Rybicki, member of the Sejm
* Sławomir Skrzypek, President of the National Bank of Poland
* Władysław Stasiak, Chief of the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
* Aleksander Szczygło, head of the National Security Bureau
* Jerzy Szmajdziński, Deputy Speaker of the Sejm
* Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz, member of the Sejm
* Anna Walentynowicz, free trade union activist, member of Solidarity
* Zbigniew Wassermann, member of the Sejm
* Wiesław Woda, member of the Sejm
* Edward Wojtas, member of the Sejm
* Paweł Wypych, Secretary of State in the Office of the President of the Republic of Poland
* Stanisław Zając, member of the Senat and former chair of the ZChN party

'may their souls rest in peace'