Family members decided to bury the athlete near the father, who was also lost in a road accident

The known wrestler of freestyle Besik Kudukhov who was lost on the night of Sunday in road accident, will bury on December 31 in his hometown Beslan.

As reported today ITAR-TASS in the ministry of youth and sports of North Ossetia, the double prize-winner of the Olympic Games, the owner of the awards "For Merits before the Fatherland" of I and II degrees Kudukhov could be buried on the Walk of Fame in Vladikavkaz where there are graves of outstanding Ossetian figures. "However the family considers that he should be buried in Beslan, near the father who was also lost in a road accident", - told in department.

Condolence telegrams native Kudukhov were directed by heads of North and South Ossetia. "Besik was an original idol of young children in the North and in the south of Ossetia. To be similar to it thousands young wrestlers aspired. Until the end of the short life Besik remained the patriot of the homeland", - is spoken in the telegram of the president of South Ossetia Leonid Tibilov.

The Governor of North Ossetia Taymuraz Mamsurov on the personal page wrote to Facebook that "is deeply shaken by the incident". "Of his name were proud not only a family and a surname, not only Beslan and Ossetia which it always adequately represented, but also all Russia, - Mamsurov noted. - With the same force with which we rejoiced to its victories, the republic people grieve today over the irreplaceable loss. Besik was one of the brightest, best representatives of our youth".

In federation of free-style wrestling noted that "life of one of the most talented wrestlers of the present" broke. "The death of the well-known Ossetian athlete Besik Kudukhov is an irreplaceable loss for all wrestling world", - the first vice-president of federation of wrestling of Russia, the double champion of the Olympic Games Arsen Fadzayev told. - He achieved outstanding progress on a carpet and could achieve still bigger, but the tragic case tore off its flight in the zenith".

The double prize-winner of the Olympic Games and the fivefold world champion in free-style wrestling 27-year-old Besik Kudukhov died on the night of December 29 in road accident on the route Krasnodar-Vladikavkaz. According to the Municipal Department of Internal Affairs of Krasnodar Krai, the Priora car which driver - Kudukhov's relative - fell asleep at a wheel, left on an oncoming lane and had an accident.

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