He told RIA Novosti about this.
According to Dmitriev, the cause of death of the journalist was a long illness.
Farewell to Kalyagin will take place on Wednesday, December 7, in the farewell hall of the Central Clinical Hospital.
On September 14, it became known that Vladimir Sungorkin, editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda, died at the age of 68.