A mum has died in an horrific accident when her huge crane was blown over by wind.
The moment the structure crashed was caught on video in Tyumen, a major oil hub in Russia.
At the time, she was loading concrete.
Single- mother-of-two Elvira Demidova, 31, killed instantly in the terrible accident when her cabin smashed to the ground from a height of 40ft, said reports.
She had a son and daughter.
Elvira had 41,000 subscribers in TikTok for her funny and honest stories about her daily life as a crane operator.
A crowdfunding effort has been set up to raise money for her funeral, and also to care for her two children, who will be brought up by her mother.
She worked for a company called Mostostroy-11, the boss of which Nikolay Russu was decorated by Vladimir Putin in 2020 for the company’s part in constructing the bridge linking annexed Crimea and Russia.
The company has won a number of major state contracts, and Russia is an MP with pro-Putin political party United Russia.
A video from 72.ru shows how the crane toppled over in the sudden high winds.
A criminal investigation is underway into her death.
Earlier this month, two wealthy Russians and a former biathlon star were killed in a horror helicopter crash, and then were 'dragged away and gnawed at by brown bears '.
The tourists were flying around the popular tourist region of Kamchatka, a Peninsula in Russia, when all of a sudden ex-sportsman Igor Malinovskii, 25, who was piloting the plane, lost control of the helicopter.
Well-known businesswoman Zoya Kaygorodova, in her mid-30s, was named as the first passenger. She was a former manager at leading Russian retail names TsUM and Eldorado before owning a hygiene products company.
Sergey Kolesnyak, 39, a mobile phone company executive at company Tele2 was named as the other tourist on the elite trip.
Rescuers at the scene found charred remains of the helicopter named Nadezhda, or Hope, after a visit to the Valley of the Geysers in Kamchatka, in the extreme east of Russia.
“The remains of dead tourists after the crash of a Robinson helicopter in Kamchatka were dragged away by bears,” reported 5TV channel, citing local sources.
It has also been reported that human remains have been found.
The tourists were part of a group on a £4,250 trip to Kamchatka, which is known for its bear-infested peninsula, and is also famous for volcanoes and glaciers.
It is believed that Kaygorodova had organised the trip.
Malinovskii was a five-times junior world champion in biathlon, but his career was stalled by the pandemic, according to reports. He then decided to retrain as a pilot and was working for a company run by his father Vladimir Malinovskii - taking tourists to remote and spectacular sights in Kamchatka.
