Update, June 18: Alaska State Troopers identified the victim of the fatal crash as 33-year-old Homer resident Iosif Martishev.
By Michael Armstrong
Homer Independent Press
One man died and another man suffered serious injuries in an all-terrain vehicle rollover Wednesday morning near Mile 21 East End Road. Mile 21 is near Donalds Lane and Voznesenka village.
Next of kin have been notified. On Thursday, Alaska State Troopers identified the dead man as 33-year-old Homer resident Iosif Martishev. Troopers did not name the other victim.
Troopers said in a press release that at about 9:45 a.m. on June 17, two men riding in a side-by-side ATV drove off the road and overturned. An investigation showed that the men did not wear seatbelts. Martishev was declared dead at the scene, and the other man was taken to South Peninsula Hospital with serious injuries.
Troopers said the circumstances of the crash remain under investigation.
In another recent ATV incident, troopers at about 7:45 p.m. on Tuesday stopped a man driving a side-by-side ATV that did not have registration on the roadway in Anchor Point . Troopers arrested the driver, Gabrial Brown, 28, of Homer, for driving under the influence.


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