In this August 2011 photo, the Lokomotiv ice team poses in the Lokomotiv Arena in the city of Yaroslavl.
Fans of Swedish hockey team HV71 gather outside the arena to pay tribute to their team's former goalie of six seasons, and Lokomotiv team member Stefan Liv, in Jonkoping, Sweden.
Thousands of flowers, team shirts, flags seen outside Russian professional hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl arena in Yaroslavl, Russia.
Kremlin's First Deputy Chief of Staff, Vladislav Surkov, left, arrives at the crash site of the Russian Yak-42 jet near the city of Yaroslavl, on the Volga River about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Moscow, Russia.
Supporters of Russian professional hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl and players' relatives stand outside the ice hockey arena in Yaroslavl, Russia.
In this photograph of various front pages of Russian daily newspapers, coverage of the plane crash that killed 43 people, including members of the Russian professional ice hockey team Yaroslavl Lokomotiv, leads coverage in Moscow.
Russian professional hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl fans grieve outside the ice hockey arena in Yaroslavl, Russia.
Players of KHL League teams Salavat Yulayev and Atlant react during the announcement of the fatal plane crash that killed players of the Lokomotiv team. A cup match between hockey teams Salavat Yulaev and Atlant in the central Russian city of Ufa was called off midway after news of the crash was announced.
A fan of Russian professional hockey team Lokomotiv Yaroslavl lights a candle during a commemorative service at a church in Yaroslavl, Russia
Belarusian ice hockey fans lay flowers and light candles in front of the Minsk Arena in Minsk, Belarus, to pay tribute to the Lokomotiv players killed in a plane crash near Yaroslavl.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pays his last respects at the plane crash site near Yaroslavl.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, second left, attends a meeting with officials at the crash site near Yaroslavl. Investigators on Thursday searched for flight recorders in the shattered remains of the airliner.