AUSTIN, Texas -- A Texas Tech University graduate student died Saturday while on a UT Austin study abroad trip in Russia.

Elmer Arrieta, a graduate student in Texas Tech's College of Architecture, was injured in a fall during a hiking excursion on Olkhon Island and later died.

He was one of 20 students on the excursion.

Soncia Reagins-Lilly, Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students at UT, released the following statement in part:

“On behalf of our entire campus, we send our deepest condolences to Elmer’s family, our Texas Tech colleagues and friends, and to all families who have suffered such a devastating loss.”

School counselors are on their way to Irkutsk to support the students who are still there, and UT Student Emergency Services will continue to offer support to UT students in Austin.

Students affected by the encouraged to call the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center crisis line at  512-471-2255. It is available 24 hours a day and seven days a week.