The Yak-18T crashed Monday near the village of Istomikha, about 40 kilometers southeast of Moscow, the news agency said.
No reason was given for the crash.
al Action Committee on the Status of Women, said as she and colleagues pushed their luggage out of Beijing's international airport.
The first of three women's trains, the UN-sponsored Beijing Express from Warsaw, arrived with 250 women. They spent their eight days on the rails discussing and dancing.
"They made enough contacts with each other, and I think they have a lot more confidence to face the issues and really get what they want out of the conference,'' said Stacey Gilbert, an employee at the United Nations' New York headquarters who rode the train.
About 24,000 delegates are expected to attend a women's Non-Governmental Organizations Forum that opens Wednesday, while about 6,000 are expected for the UN Fourth World Conference on Women, which runs Sept. 4 to 15.
The UN conference will adopt a document that will call on member governments to take action to abolish discrimination against women in education and work, end violence against them, develop programs to alleviate female poverty and other specific steps.
But this will be the fourth major UN-sponsored conference in three years that seeks to promote huge social changes. Governments, participants and observers have all become a bit jaded and cautious in their expectations.
That is why some of the women arriving Monday said their real hopes are pinned not on the formal declaration and government action, but on each other.
"There are 200 women taking part from Pakistan. Many come from the grassroots, from villages. When they go home and share their information, that will have an effect,'' said Nageen Malik, a representative of a Pakistani group called Bendari -- Awakening -- that offers legal, medical and financial help for women.
The Canadian delegate, Thobani, said her group will be pushing for the NGO women to establish a permanent, international women's network to keep working on the issues in between high-profile conferences. "In preparing for the Beijing conference we have already laid the groundwork" for such a network, she said.
"This will be the biggest, and I dare say most important United Nations conference in history," said Gertrude Mongella, a Tanzanian diplomat and secretary general of the conference. "This is a conference for action."
Meanwhile, the decision by U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton to attend the conference sparked an angry reaction from some Republicans, who said her presence would send the wrong message to citizens of the Communist country.
"There's no doubt that China's going to use the visit of Mrs. Clinton as a propaganda tool," Representative Susan Molinari, a Republican from New York, said Sunday. She said that the first lady's visit would allow China to whitewash its human rights record and ignore the plight of women there.o, a counterterrorism expert.
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