The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/09/03/burning-man-homicide-victim-identified-as-russian-national/We now have more information about the mysterious death that occurred on the playa over the weekend, during the burning of The Man. The male victim who was found dead Saturday night at Burning Man in an apparent homicide has been identified as 37-year-old Vadim Kruglov, a Russian national who was a resident of Tacoma, Washington. As the Reno Gazette-Journal reports, Kruglov was found in the area of I Street between 8 and 8:45 o’clock — with Black Rock City being laid out in a semi-circle, with sections denoted by times on a clock. He was apparently not near his own camp, because his friends had declared him missing, and said they had not seen him since Friday, Aug

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