"Galina Kubrina, Deputy Minister of Culture of the Altai Territory, who was in the car with the minister, died in the hospital," the statement said.

A truck drove into the car in which Kubrina, Altai Minister of Culture Elena Bezrukova and an employee of the department Fyodor Zykov were on the highway in the Troitsky district of the region.

Employees of the Ministry of Culture were sent on a business trip to Biysk.

All three employees of the department were hospitalized.

In October 2019, it was reported about the death of the mayor of Abakan Nikolai Bulakin in an accident in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.