Polish sports official remembered eight years after plane crash
PR dla Zagranicy
Grzegorz Siwicki
10.04.2018 16:00
Sports official Piotr Nurowski was among the victims of the 2010 Polish presidential jet crash in Russia who were remembered at home and abroad on Tuesday, eight years after their tragic death.
![The late Piotr Nurowski, pictured in 2007. Photo: Sławek [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://external.polskieradio.pl/files/4ebf6bfa-2d9a-4228-bbdd-7408660877f7.file "The late Piotr Nurowski, pictured in 2007. Photo: Sławek [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons")
The late Piotr Nurowski, pictured in 2007. Photo: Sławek [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Tuesday marked exactly eight years since a Polish plane carrying then-President Lech Kaczyński, his wife and 94 others – including top political and military figures – crashed near Smolensk, western Russia, killing all those on board.
Nurowski was among those on the Tu-154 plane on April 10, 2010 as they travelled to attend observances of the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre of Polish officers and intellectuals by the Soviets during World War II.
During the observances, Nurowski, in his role as head of the Polish Olympic Committee, was to have laid a wreath on the graves of Polish Olympic athletes murdered by the Soviet NKVD secret police in the Katyn Forest in 1940.
Nurowski headed the Polish Olympic Committee for five years, beginning in February 2005.
He was posthumously awarded the Commander's Cross of the Polonia Restituta Order. He is buried in the Avenue of Honour at Warsaw’s Powązki military cemetery.
(gs/pk)
Source: Polish Radio