The 23-year-old’s parents, 1994 World Champions Evgenia “Zhenya” Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, were aboard the doomed aircraft.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed the Russian figure skaters were on board the crashed American Airlines plane.

In an interview with PEOPLE, Olympic gold medalist Ekaterina "Katia" Gordeeva mourned her late teammates Evgenia and Vadim ...

Shishkova and Naumov had traveled to Wichita with a group of skaters from the Skating Club of Boston in Norwood to take part ...

Maxim Naumov, who lost his parents in the Washington D.C. plane crash, has a family friend staying with him around the clock ...

World Champion figure skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov shared their pride about their son and figure skating pupil, ...

Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov earned many figure skating accolades before they died in a Washington D.C. plane crash in ...

The figure skating coaches from the Skating Club of Boston were on the plane traveling from Wichita to Washington when it ...

Evegnia Shiskova and Vadim Naumov, the 1994 World Figure Skating champions in pairs representing Russia, were among the 64 ...

Vadim Naumov and Evgenia Shishkova, the veteran Russian ice skating pair who triumphed at the 1994 World Figure Championships ...

Vadim Naumov, a coach at the Skating Club of Boston, was among the victims of a plane crash near Ronald Reagan National ...

Former Russian figure skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov are feared dead after their American Airlines flight crashed ...