Kharkiv Lecturer Who Traveled to Parents in Crimea Died in Vladikavkaz
It was previously reported that she died in Sevastopol
Oleksandra Kazarovitskaya died in Vladikavkaz, Novaya Gazeta Europa found out. This was confirmed by her friend Iryna Salnik.
According to the publication, Kazarovitskaya never reached Crimea. Where she was detained, in which pre-trial detention center she was held, and how she ended up in Vladikavkaz — is unknown.
Another friend of the lecturer, Hanna Zialenskaya-Sumkina, said that, according to acquaintances, Kazarovitskaya was found dead in a private house. Her relatives do not believe the suicide version.
The date of death was named October 24. The body was delivered to her parents in Sevastopol, where Kazarovitskaya was buried on November 3.
Earlier, the Kharkiv language school "Professional", of which she was a co-founder, reported Kazarovitskaya's death. "Russia killed her," the school's publication stated.
According to colleagues, in the summer of 2026, Kazarovitskaya went to Sevastopol to help her parents sell their apartment and move to Turkey, where she had recently lived with her husband.
The lecturer was detained by security forces after correspondence with a volunteer, which had taken place at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, was found on her.
As colleagues reported, Kazarovitskaya spent three months in solitary confinement awaiting trial. According to them, Russian authorities named suicide as the cause of the lecturer's death.
How exactly she ended up in Vladikavkaz is still unknown.