"At the Northern Cemetery of St. Petersburg, the funeral ceremony of the head of the EMERCOM of Russia Yevgeny Zinichev will take place ... The ceremony will be held in a closed mode for the press," Interfax quotes the press service of the city EMERCOM headquarters.
The parents of Yevgeny Zinichev are buried at the Northern Cemetery.
On Friday, September 10, Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in a farewell ceremony in Moscow with the deceased head of the Emergencies Ministry Yevgeny Zinichev.
Putin said that Zinichev was doing his duty to the end.