Vadim Naumov, a coach at the Skating Club of Boston, was among the victims of a plane crash near Ronald Reagan National Airport outside of Washington, D.C. Wednesday night. Naumov was traveling with his wife, Evgenia Shishkova, as well as two athletes from the club and their mothers.

World Champion figure skaters Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov shared their pride about their son and figure skating pupil, Maxim Naumov, in their final Instagram post just days before they died in the American Airlines crash in Washington,

The young figure skaters whose lives were cut tragically short when an American Airlines flight collided with an Army helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday night were just beginning their journeys to stardom.