One of the plane's passengers was Evgeny Prigozhin, the ministry stated.
"According to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, a private Embraer Legacy plane crashed en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg in the Tver region, near the Kuzhenkino village. [...] According to preliminary information, everyone on board was killed," the ministry said in a statement.
The department further noted that an investigation has been launched into the plane crash.
It was later reported that eight bodies were recovered ath the crash site.
This is the second time that Yevgeny Prigozhin has been reported dead after a plane crash. The first was on October 13, 2019 in the Congo.