The preliminary inquiry into a grim discovery in the Moscow region has begun after the bodies of a man and a woman were found inside a car that ended up in a river. The Main Investigative Committee’s Moscow region division confirmed the start of the control phase as part of the ongoing investigation into the incident.
Officials report that investigators documented the scene, conducted interviews, and scheduled forensic examinations to establish the exact cause of death. The ministry stated that a procedural decision would follow based on the findings of this initial control stage.
The vehicle containing the two victims was retrieved from the Klishevskaya floodplain in the Ramensky district, an area now central to the inquiry.
The man has been identified as Kirill Stepanov, a therapeutic exercise instructor at the vascular department of Ramenskaya Central District Hospital, and the woman accompanying him remains unnamed pending formal identification. The pair had been missing since early August, with their last sighting recorded on August 6 in front of the Dixy store near the Klisheva village entrance.
Initial assessments by investigators found no immediate signs of violent death on the two bodies, guiding the inquiry toward other possible causes and circumstances surrounding their deaths.
In a separate report from earlier, a truck driver transporting a semi-trailer loaded with burning straw was observed moving through a field in the Voronezh region, a detail that has been noted in connection with regional incident figures but is not directly linked to the current case.