Top regional sambist Alexandra Lalachkina, 18, found dead
Sasha holds a bronze medal and diploma from the Voronezh Region sambo championship held on 8 November 2025.
On 24 January, the city of Voronezh was shocked by the tragedy of young athlete Alexandra Lalachkina: the girl was found dead by volunteers from LizaAlert, a search and rescue volunteer organization, who had been looking for her since 23 January. The 18-year-old Sasha had gone missing on 22 January: after classes, she drove home in her dark blue Mercedes, but her family did not see her return. Around midnight, they turned to the volunteers.
According to surveillance camera footage, search teams determined that Alexandra«s car was last captured on camera in the Pridonskoy area—and then the trail went cold. On the night of 24 January, a LizaAlert team discovered Sasha»s Mercedes in the vicinity of the microdistrict, but the girl herself was not there. The news that she had been found dead became known around five in the evening.
Details of where and under what circumstances Alexandra«s body was found are not available at the time of publication. And for now, this story is full of questions. Sasha lived in Yamnoye, where she also trained at a judo and sambo school under the guidance of master of sports Stanislav Savolokin, and was a student at the Ramon Sports Centre. Why she went to Voronezh instead of home, why she ended up in that area—surrounded by forest—and left her car, is not known. Judging by her sporting life, nothing bad seemed to be looming in her final days.
Alexandra had been practicing sambo since childhood and had risen to the rank of candidate for master of sports. At the age of 12, she became the best at an international tournament in Berlin, and even then, the girl was predicted to have a great future. Her current coach, Stanislav Savolokin, called her one of the strongest sambo athletes in the Voronezh Region and a promising sportswoman. At the end of December 2025, Sasha traveled to Ryazan—for her regional team«s training camps. Her mentor noted at the time that Sasha was preparing for serious, high-level competitions. And Alexandra spent the New Year holidays on the mat again: literally two weeks before her death—from 6 to 9 January—she was at training camps in Balashov, Saratov Region.
In her career, Sasha won many awards—including top honors. For example, in April of last year, she took gold in her weight category at interregional competitions—the tournament for the prizes of Honored Coach of Russia Elena Yeryomina, which was held in St. Petersburg and featured over 120 female athletes from different regions. In November 2025, she won the regional grappling championships—a special wrestling technique with holds—and became a bronze medalist at the Voronezh Region sambo championship.
No comments from the Investigative Committee regarding Sasha«s death had been received at the time of publication.
