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ABOUT CHILDREN HEROES OF OUR DAYS
The stories below about 33 heroes are only a small part of the exploits
which are committed by children.
Not everyone is awarded medals, but this does not make their actions any less significant.
The most important reward is the gratitude of those whose lives they saved.
According to the stories of child heroes, knowledge and skills helped them in many emergency situations.
learned in life safety lessons.
And this is pride for life safety teachers (in a good way)
for your students, for your subject of life safety, for your profession as a teacher.
If you have similar stories, be sure to send them to us.
Russia should know your Heroes!
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Aisen Mikhailov Alexander Alexandrov Alexandra Ershova Andrey Berenda Anton Chusov Artem Artyukhin |
Vladislav Prikhodko Daniil Musakhanov Denis Davydov Dmitry Shapkin Ivan Ganshin Evgeniy Pozdnyakov |
Mikhail Buklaga Nastya Erokhina Nikita Sviridov Nikita Terekhin Nikita Medvedev Olesya Pushmina |
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Arthur Kazaryan Valeria Maksimova Vlad Morozov Valentin Tsurikov Vyacheslav Vildanov |
Ekaterina Michurova Ksenia Perfilyeva Lisa Khomutova Maxim Zotimov Maria Zyabrikova |
Stas Slynko Sergey Prytkov Trofim Zhendrinsky Khamzat Yakubov Eduard Timofeev |
and many, many other child heroes who were helped by the knowledge gained in life safety lessons...
Vadim Nasipov was awarded the medal “For saving the dead”
20-year-old student of the Ural State pedagogical university Vadim Nasipov came to the aid of a baby who found himself in a stroller on the tracks at the Uralmash metro station. The child, in a fit of jealousy towards her husband, was pushed onto the tracks by his own mother.
The future life safety teacher, going down the subway, saw something terrible: a stroller with a loudly crying baby was lying right on the tracks, and in the tunnel a beam of light was already visible and the sound of an approaching train could be heard. Without thinking about whether the contact rails were de-energized or not, Vadim jumped down and saved the child.
MAGOMED SABIGULAEV, rescuing a drowning man
11 years old, Kedi village, Tsumadinsky district, Republic of Dagestan
On a clear June day, two little friends - Adam Ziyavdinov and Saypudin Isaev (both 4 years old) were playing next to the lake in the village of Kedi. Adam came too close to the shore, slipped and fell into a lake 2 meters deep. Saipudin, who remained on the shore, was not at a loss and ran to look for help.
Boris Bushkov. Rescue of a drowning man
Towards evening, Boris rode his bicycle to the Velikaya River for fishing. Suddenly he heard cries for help and increased his speed. Within minutes, he drove up to the river and saw two boys drowning. One was floundering in the middle of the river, and the other was carried away by the current. Without thinking for a second, Boris quickly took off his clothes and rushed to help.
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9th grade student Artem Artyukhin, saved a student from his school, Olya Aksimova, from a fire. And now the award has found its hero, Artem received the medal “For Courage in a Fire.”
Students from local school No. 1176 attended the ceremonial award ceremony for the hero. The hero received the medal “For Courage in a Fire” from the hands of the Ministry of Emergency Situations employees.
According to the deputy head of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations in Moscow, Ivan Podoprikhin, the guy was lucky to be in the right place at the right time, where he not only didn’t get confused, he took a risk, and thereby was able to save a man’s life.
As Artyom himself recalled, that day he was returning home when he noticed smoke coming out of the building, and many onlookers gathered nearby, filming what was happening on camera and waiting for further developments. He was not at a loss and, upon entering the building, found a girl on the eighth floor who was calling for help, knocking down the door, he led her out of the house in which the fire had started.
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In Stavropol, 15-year-old teenagers Ivan Ganshin and Arthur Kazaryan A criminal who robbed a man was detained and taken to the police station.
On Saturday afternoon, having postponed preparations for the first session, they were walking through the city center to meet with friends and a few tens of meters away they saw how a young man, having thrown a man to the ground, began to beat him. The guys caught up with the criminal only in the next block, twisted his hands and led him to the victim, not giving in to persuasion to let him go. After some time, a police squad arrived at the scene. The detained 27-year-old man was charged with attempted robbery and is currently under investigation.
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On his way to fishing, 9-year-old resident of the village of Chastye Pavel Kulikov slipped on the frozen boards of the bridge and fell into the icy water of the bay. The icy water instantly filled his rubber boots and made his clothes a deadly burden for a 9-year-old child. His friend Nikita Terekhin was not at a loss and rushed to help his comrade.
The boy hung on a high bridge so that Pavel could grab his leg and climb out of the cold water. On land, the young rescuer picked up his injured friend and took him home. Thanks to brave act The boy, a schoolboy, escaped with only hypothermia. The heroic deed of the third grader did not go unnoticed. The young rescuer became a real hero in the eyes of the students of his home school. The head of the Chastinsky district awarded Nikita a mobile phone and a letter of gratitude.
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Documents for awarding the 13-year-old girl have been sent to the Office of the President of Russia Olesya Pushmina. In the summer, a schoolgirl from the Irkutsk region saved a drowning eight-year-old boy who was swimming in an abandoned quarry with his grandfather. At that moment there were still people on the shore, including strong men, but no one except Olesya rushed to help.
It all happened in an abandoned quarry. Olesya Pushmina and her friends came here to sunbathe and swim. They found themselves next to eight-year-old Nikita, who was taught to swim by his grandfather. At some point, Olesya noticed that an elderly man had disappeared under water, and the child was trying with all his might to swim out. Without hesitation, Olesya rushed to save the boy. He says there was only one thought in his head: not to let the child go under water. She grabbed Nikita from behind with one arm and rowed to the shore with the other. How she managed to swim to the shore with an eight-year-old boy, the fragile girl does not remember. Having seated the child on the shore, Olesya and her friends who arrived in time tried to save the man. I had to dive several times.
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The Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in the Krasnodar Territory awarded 12-year-old schoolboy Stas Slynko with the medal “For Courage in a Fire.” Stanislav saved his five-year-old sister and aunt from the fire. A night fire in their house in the village of Starominskaya happened in April 2012. At this time, the student's mother was in business trip. Stanislav and his younger sister Irina were under the supervision of their aunt and her husband.
The boy was the first to wake up from the sound of burning furniture and the smell of smoke. He shouted "We're on fire!" and ran to the nursery where the 5-year-old sister was sleeping.
Professional rescuers say that the child, once on fire, acted with extreme precision and courage.
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On April 26, during the solemn ceremony of presenting state awards of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), the medal of the President of Russia “For saving the dead” will be presented to a 10th grade student at the Kyundyadinsky secondary school in the Nyurbinsky district Mikhailov Aisen Semenovich.
In July 2009, Aisen Mikhailov twice saved drowning children. In the first case, on July 12, he pulled a six-year-old child from the water who was swimming without adult supervision. A group of children were swimming in shallow water. Suddenly, unexpectedly, one of them was carried by the current into a deep ravine, and he began to drown. Aisen, who was nearby, immediately rushed to the rescue and pulled the boy ashore.
The second incident occurred two weeks later. On this day, many children and adults were relaxing on the Vilyui River. The group of girls was about fifty meters from the main group of swimmers. Suddenly one of them, an 8th grade student, began to drown.
Aisen heard the girls’ screams as he was already leaving the beach, and, without a second’s hesitation, rushed to the rescue. And he pulled the girl ashore who had managed to drink some river water. Before the adults arrived, the boy managed to provide first aid to the victim and brought her to her senses. If it weren’t for Aisen’s presence at that tragic moment, something irreparable could have happened.
On September 1, 2009, at the Day of Knowledge holiday, for his heroic deeds, Aisen Mikhailov was awarded a Certificate from the Center of the State Inspectorate for Small Vessels of the Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
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Summer holidays 13-year-old resident of the city. Tomsk Andrey Berenda spent with his grandmother in the village of Zima, Irkutsk region. Last year he met two brothers here - 16-year-old Maxim and 11-year-old Dima. He spent whole days with them - they went fishing, swam, and walked together. That day, August 2, around lunchtime, as soon as the water warmed up a little, the friends went to the river. However, they found it a little cold at their usual place, so they decided to wade across to the other bank and continue their rest there. Having put their things in a bag, they carefully moved through the water one after another. But then the older brother Maxim decided to play a trick on the younger one, snatched the rubber slippers from his hands and launched them downstream. Dima immediately rushed into the water after them. After swimming a little, he felt that he was beginning to be pulled deeper. The boy screamed and began to flounder, brother Maxim immediately rushed to his aid. But a strong current picked them both up and carried them down. Then Andrei realized that his friends might not get out on their own, so, throwing a bag of things, he rushed to help his brothers. Noticing that Maxim swam towards the shore, he began to pull out the younger Dima - he was already completely exhausted.
“When I swam up to him, Dima began to grab onto me, tried to climb, I felt that I myself could drown now,” Andrei recalls. “I tell him: “Calm down, turn over on your stomach, swim forward, I will push you.” Dima obeyed, and so we got to the shore. While we were swimming, I saw that Maxim was still floating on the surface. But when we got ashore and I turned around, Maxim was no longer visible. When I thought that Maxim had drowned, I felt uneasy.
Meanwhile, fishermen who watched what was happening from the shore witnessed the tragedy. However, none of them came to the aid of the brothers. They continued fishing in silence and didn’t even come up when Andrei pushed the frightened Dima onto the shore and asked to call an ambulance. The younger brother did not tell his parents about what happened to the older brother until the evening. When the pain of losing his brother overpowered the fear of his parents' anger, he told them everything. Maxim’s body was found only two days later. Andrei, meanwhile, says that if Maxim had still floated on the surface when he pulled his brother ashore, he would no doubt have returned for him. Even despite the fact that he himself was practically exhausted.
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11-year-old boy Anton Chusov, with his heroic act, ended all debate about whether such a subject as “Fundamentals of Life Safety” is needed in school. In the face of the impending tragedy, he remembered what the teacher had explained, and was now awarded the medal “For saving the dead.”
September 27, 2007 Governor Vladimir region Nikolai Vinogradov in the regional administration building solemnly presented Anton Chusov with a medal “For saving the dead”: an 11-year-old schoolboy saved two drowning girls last summer, and the President of the Russian Federation signed a Decree awarding the young hero a government award.
Last July, Anton, a student from Gus-Khrustalny, swam in one of the ponds near the regional center. Close to Anton, two girls were swimming on inner tubes. One of them fell into the water and began to drown. Anton's grandmother Nina Ilyinichna, who came to look after her grandson, began to call for help, but there were no adults nearby. Anton rushed to save:
“She was already under water, and I had to push her to the surface several times,” the young hero told a newspaper correspondent.
8-year-old Christina also ended up in the water, whom Anton helped to climb onto the inner tube. Meanwhile, the grandmother was already pumping out the rescued Tanya.
Tanya swallowed a lot of water, she was shaking and shivering. Christina got off with a fright. The boy and grandmother revived the girls and took them home. For a long time no one knew what happened. In the fall, Anton went to school. He still studied with B's and C's, still made friends more with girls than with boys, still ran around during breaks and flew along the railings... When suddenly the local newspaper wrote about the boy's feat.
- My mother taught me to swim, I’m already a good breaststroke swimmer. And I’m no hero, I’m not even the best swimmer in the class,” modest Anton seemed to justify himself when newspaper and television correspondents began interviewing him. However, the little hero showed not only courage, but the professionalism of a real rescuer.
“In our class they showed a film about how to save drowning people,” explains Anton. “And I acted as taught in the film: I didn’t pull the girl by the hair, but dived and pushed her out of the water.
“I was surprised that Anton was not at all scared when he saw that the girl was drowning,” said Nina Ilyinichna, Anton’s grandmother, “especially since he himself recently learned to swim.” I was so scared when Anton started diving after the girl: what if he himself drowned!
Anton reassures his grandmother: Well, he’s alive! And then, in the life safety lesson it is clearly said: if a person is drowning, he must be saved.
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The first day of the school year for students of school No. 4 in the South-Western district of the capital began in a special way. Many television cameras, journalists, representatives of the prefecture and the Ministry of Emergency Situations came to congratulate all the children and personally the 9-year-old Valentina Tsurikova, because now he is not just a schoolboy, but a real hero. At a children's camp, he was the first to come to the aid of a boy drowning in the pool.
“The girl comes up to me and says, Maxim is there, he’s already been under water for about 5 minutes. I dived next to him, I pulled him up - he didn’t move at all. When he pulled him to the surface, he put his head on the side, then the shift director ran up and started pumping him out, then the doctor came running and also started pumping him out, then they called an ambulance and started taking everyone out,” Valentin recalls that day. The whole school now knows about his heroic deed, and his parents are now truly proud of their son.
“We were proud that our son was not confused and at such a moment he was able to find his bearings and accepted the only the right decision“that the person needs to be helped,” Valya’s parents told EMERCOM correspondents.
The head of the department for the South-Western Administrative District of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in Moscow, Viktor Shepelev, presented the young hero with the medal of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia “For excellence in eliminating the consequences of an emergency situation” and invited Valya to seriously think about a career as a rescuer.
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He was not afraid and saved three lives at once. In Yekaterinburg, a 14-year-old schoolboy was solemnly awarded for heroism in a fire. IN May holidays Vladislav helped neighbors who were at risk of suffocating in their own apartment.
Marina Mikhailovna still cannot calmly recall the events of that day. And he doesn’t want to. He has only himself to blame for the fire. And here is her neighbor Vladislav Prikhodko On the contrary, that day I remembered everything that was taught in life safety lessons.
Opening the door, Vlad saw neighboring children screaming that their apartment was on fire. Undeterred, the 14-year-old boy took the boys outside and returned for their grandmother. But even after this, Vlad did not rush to save himself. After waiting for the firefighters, he showed them the apartment and the room that were on fire. It later turns out that the fire started because a 3-year-old neighbor decided to set fire to the sofa.
Vlad Morozov, a first-grader at school No. 4 in the city of Navashino, became a real hero. On September 1, EMERCOM employees came to see him during a school assembly. For his courage, the seven-year-old firefighter received a certificate from the leadership of the fire department and mittens as a souvenir. The district education department gave Vlad a ticket to a sanatorium camp.
“I really liked the mittens,” says Vlad. - When I grow up, I will also become a real fireman. I will save people from the fire."
But the boy doesn’t like to remember the day when Vlad had to show courage. Vlad spent his next holidays with his grandmother. One July night, a bird flew into the rural house of his grandmother Lidia Ivanovna. ball lightning. Lydia Ivanovna’s brother Alexander was the first to see the fireball. The pensioner slept in a separate room. Lightning hit the Russian oven, and then there was an explosion, Alexander was thrown towards the door. Somehow he crawled out onto the street: Alexander Ivanovich walked very poorly - he has been disabled since childhood. Little Vlad heard this explosion.
“The explosion deafened me, and my grandmother’s eardrums even burst,” Vlad complains.
Lidia Ivanovna lost her sight a long time ago. “I tried to go out on my own, but ran into a burning table, walked along the wall - and then it burned. I thought it was gone. And then a voice in the smoke: grandma, give me your hand, I’ll take you out. So we went,” recalls the pensioner.
Molten plastic dripped from the ceiling - straight onto Vladik's back. But he didn't cry!
“They sat me on a bench and said: “Grandma, the back of your dress is burning. Look, the bench caught fire too. Let's go further!" And as soon as we moved away from the shop, a gas cylinder exploded in the house. It was as if some force was leading the granddaughter out of the fire to a safe distance. Guardian angel, maybe?” added Lidia Ivanovna
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On May 20, 2011, Denis Davydov saved a drowning first-grader. In the village of Kosh-Akach, children were playing on the banks of the Chuya River. One of the boys ended up in the water due to careless movement. The Chuya River is deep and has a strong current, so the first-grader instantly found himself in the middle of the river. Denis realized that the child could die, and, without hesitation, rushed to the rescue to save the drowning man. The young rescuer dived under the water, grabbed the boy by the collar of his clothes, pulled him to the shore and pulled the child out of the icy water. As Denis later recalled: “...there was no time, I didn’t even think about fear, I just saw that someone had fallen into the water and that I needed help.” Denis brought the rescued boy, frozen and frightened, to his home. The parents are proud of their son, but still cannot understand how the boy, despite his young age, was not afraid. July 29, 2011 at assembly hall The district administration held a solemn award ceremony for Denis Davydov. For the selfless heroic deed the boy was presented with a gift, a medal and a certificate from the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Altai Republic, Colonel I.A. Bukin. Denis doesn’t consider himself a hero: “Well, what a hero I am, I just helped a person who was in trouble. Anyone else in my position did the same.” But for his peers, parents and teachers, he is a role model; they look up to him and are proud of him.
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Returning home on December 18, 2004, Zhenya Pozdnyakov clearly heard baby crying. Through the windows of Mironov’s apartment, from where children’s screams and knocking could be heard, there was no way to see anything - as if a dense fog had enveloped everything. And then Zhenya clearly caught the smell of smoke. Smoke crawled out into the street from under the doors and from the windows of the Mironovs’ house.
Pozdnyakov rushed to the porch. In one movement he tore off the padlock and immediately almost threw the two boys out into the street. But he knew that the Mironovs had four children - Zhenya was his mother’s classmate large family. The fire was literally gaining strength before our eyes, and Zhenya no longer had time to think. Gritting his teeth so as not to grab the burning smoke, he rushed into the room - another boy was saved. To find the fourth, the smallest of the Mironovs, Zhenya needed a breath of fresh air. He felt how frost filled every cell of his body with lightning speed. I wanted to stand and stand under the blue December sky, ringing with blueness, with my head thrown back high. And breathe, breathe full breasts... But somewhere in the smoke and fire, two-year-old Deniska remained. Both the second and third attempts to find the boy ended unsuccessfully. Having stepped beyond the threshold of the burning room for the third time, Zhenya decided that I would not leave without the boy. And it was as if someone whispered in his ear at that moment - look under the crib. Deniska huddled under her in a corner and didn’t even move.
Only then did one of the neighbors call the firefighters. Zhenya Pozdnyakov will probably be nominated for a government award for his courage and heroism in saving four young children. A request for this was sent to the Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Tomsk Region by the head of a similar regional service. Employees of the administration of the Tomsk region confirmed that the decision to reward the guy who showed real heroism and true courage will be made in the near future.
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For three guys, February 18 was not an ordinary day. A fifth-grader was awarded at school-wide meetings Daniil Musakhanov from school 68 in the city of Belorechensk, second grade student Nikita Sviridov and first grader Eduard Timofeev from 31 schools in the village of Rodniki.
For their courage, vigilance and correct actions when extinguishing dry grass, the Ministry of Emergency Situations employees presented the children with gifts and letters of gratitude.
“It happened on February 7 on Aerodromnaya Street in the village of Rodniki,” says Daniil Musakhanov, “I was visiting my grandmother, walking with Nikita and Edik. We noticed that dry grass was on fire in front of the house, and at any moment the fire could spread to residential buildings."
The guys put out the fire on their own and only then notified the fire department. Fire department specialists highly appreciated the actions of the guys.
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In November 2005 Slava Vildanov, then a 5th grade student living in the village of Ragnuksa saved four-year-old Dima Tomashevich, who was drowning in the river. While playing on the shore, the baby slipped and fell into the cold water. Dima’s comrade managed to run to the nearest courtyard and tell Slava about everything. During this time, the drowning boy almost sank to the bottom, and only his jacket was visible on the water. But Slava entered the water and pulled the victim ashore.
For his courage and bravery in saving his friend on the water, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Slava was awarded the medal “For saving the dead.”
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Liza Khomutova is the smallest in her 6th grade in height and weighs a little more than her younger brother. But she has been playing table tennis for four years. In her age group, she has already become the regional champion twice and took bronze, fighting against adult athletes. Every weekday he trains for three hours at the Luch sports club at the Elektropribor plant. Lisa is an ordinary girl, but even an adult can learn courage and bravery from her. Lisa was awarded the medal "For saving the dead."
Brother Sasha was walking along the pond and accidentally came across an ice hole with fragile ice. A neighbor cut an ice hole in which he had swam the day before. The ice hole was sealed by the first ice, which was covered with snow. So the danger zone on the ice did not show itself in any way. Sasha stepped on it! The ice burst and the boy immediately fell into the water. He began to scream and call for help, but a snow harvester working nearby muffled his screams. The neighbor cleaning the ice did not hear or see anything. By some miracle, the drowning Sasha’s sister, Lisa, heard the alarming cries and did everything quickly and accurately. She did not run into the house to fetch her relatives, but rushed to the ice hole. Only his brother's head and hands protruded from it. The girl, firmly grasping his hands, pulled him onto the hard ice.
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For 14-year-old Dima Shapkin, school life lessons were not in vain. How to perform artificial respiration, first resuscitation measures, apply a splint. This is taught in every school. Dima never thought that one day he would have to put this knowledge into practice.
Dima, his younger brothers and 6-year-old sister spent their weekends at their grandmother’s dacha. Tamara Aleksandrovna was doing the gardening, Dima was doing housework, the kids were playing in the yard. Like all children, Vanya and Dima quickly got bored with playing at home and went outside.
Grandma, Tyoma drowned,” a frightened Vanya flew into the yard.
It turned out that the tomboys went to hell. Little Artyom went down to the shore to touch the water, and slipped on wet stones and fell into the icy water. The fast current swirled the boy around.
Dima, without thinking, rushed out of the house to the river, but Tyoma was already far away. Having thrown himself into the icy water, Dima managed to pull his brother ashore.
“He was blue and was no longer breathing. I remembered how in our life safety lesson the teacher told us about saving drowning people. How we trained on the doll. I turned him over, pressed on his chest and stomach, and performed artificial respiration. Water poured out of Tyoma, then he coughed and began to breathe,” Dima recalls that day.
After the rescuers were called, little Artyom was admitted to the hospital with double pneumonia - due to water getting into his lungs.
“The baby was saved by the fact that he received very competent resuscitation measures. And the most important thing is time - because in such situations, seconds count. When a child does not breathe, oxygen starvation begins, which has a very negative effect on the brain and nervous system. So, Dima is their guardian angel,” says Tyoma’s attending physician.
Dmitry Shapkin was awarded by presidential decree for his courageous and decisive actions in saving people in extreme conditions with the medal “For saving the dead.” But Dima himself does not consider himself a hero.
What could have been done differently? - Dmitry is surprised.
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On January 20, in the village of Kirovsky, Kamyzyaksky district, Astrakhan region, seven-year-old Katya Michurova saved her classmate Amir Nurgaliev, who fell into an ice hole on Erik Dulinsky. Katya and Amir were skating on ice near the house. Suddenly, Amir slipped and fell into the water. Katya was not at a loss and was able to lend a helping hand. “At first I was a little scared. I wanted to give a branch that lay nearby, but it froze to the ice and I couldn’t tear it off. Then I grabbed Amir by the sleeve of his jacket, but the ice broke off. I tried again to pull him out of the icy water, but again I failed. And only the third time, when I grabbed his hand, I managed to pull Amir onto the ice. We were very cold and quickly ran home,” recalls Katya.
At home, Katya did not tell anyone anything, and only from Amir’s grateful parents did Katya’s mother learn about her daughter’s act. To the question in class: “Were you afraid that you yourself could die?” Katya answered sincerely: “Yes. But I thought, if Amir drowned, his mother would cry a lot, and I would lose a friend.” After such words, tears came to the adults’ eyes, because not every adult could do this.
But the most heartfelt words were the words of little Amir’s mother: “This little girl, who has such a big heart, saved our family from irreparable grief. It’s even scary to think how this could end. I am very grateful to her for saving my son's life. May she always be protected by the forces of good and saved from failures and dangers.”
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Employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations went to one of the schools in the Kostroma region to present an award to a sixth-grader. Ksenia Perfilyeva, taking risks own life, saved a little boy who was drowning in the river. Moreover, neither classmates nor teachers knew about this incident. Ksyusha says that she didn’t do anything special, and everyone would have done the same in her place.
This girl previously did not stand out among her peers, but now everyone in 6 “A” knows that Ksyusha Perfilyeva has accomplished a real feat. She herself didn’t even tell her friends how she saved the neighbor’s boy; her classmates learned about it at the school assembly, when Ksyusha was awarded a certificate for saving a drowning man.
It all happened in the village of Vysokovskaya; in the summer, Ksenia visited her grandmother here. That day she went for a swim in the river, two boys were splashing there. 6-year-old Zakhar now can’t even really explain how he ended up in a deep pool, because he doesn’t know how to swim.
Zakhar Smirnov: “I stood on a rock, slipped and fell. And began to drown...”
While the boy unsuccessfully tried to get out of the river, his friend remained on the bank. But there was no one to call for help; there were no adults nearby.
This place in the village is called the “black pool”. The depth here is several meters. Seeing a neighbor’s boy floundering helplessly in the middle of the river, Ksenia Perfilyeva, without hesitation, rushed to his aid.
In a matter of seconds she swam to Zakhar, and when she carried him to the shore in her arms, he was already unconscious and not breathing.
Ksenia Perfilyeva: “When I pulled him out, he wasn’t breathing. They told us in life safety lessons, I remembered that we need to press on his chest. If he starts breathing, then everything is fine. If not, then we need to do artificial respiration.”
Ksyusha performed cardiac massage and artificial respiration, although she did not hope that it would help, when suddenly the boy came to his senses. An hour later, the child was taken to the hospital, where doctors fought for his life for several more days. Zakhara’s mother still cannot believe what happened; that day she left home for only a couple of hours - she went to the store to do some shopping, and when she returned, she found out that her son had almost died.
As a reward, the schoolgirl received a gift from the Ministry of Emergency Situations - an MP3 player; the district administration of Ksenia gave a small bonus. At school, during life safety lessons, she is now used as an example, explaining how to properly provide first aid to drowning people.
The sixth-grader assures that anyone in her place would do the same. And makes plans for the future. This year, in an essay on the topic “Choice of a profession,” Ksenia wrote that after school she will definitely try to get a job in the rescue service.
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In July 2011, a group of children were swimming in a pond outside the village of Sutchevo, Marposadsky District, Chuvash Republic, without adult supervision. The girls, among whom was 11-year-old Nadya Tarasova, did not know how to swim, so they took pieces of foam plastic with them. At some point, the foam slipped out of Nadya’s hands, and she began to drown. Valeria Maksimova, who was nearby on the shore, was not at a loss, quickly assessed the situation and began loudly calling for help. The 12-year-old was the first to come to the rescue. Sasha Alexandrov, who managed to pull the drowning woman to the shore. At a safe depth he was joined by Valeria Maksimova, and together they pulled Nadya to the shore. From the other side, Maxim Zotimov responded to the call for help, swam across a 35-meter wide pond and joined the guys. Together, the children, without wasting a second, provided first aid to the injured girl. Three brave teenagers managed to bring Nadya to her senses and restore her breathing.
By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation dated March 4, 2013 No. 184, a student of an autonomous institution of the Chuvash Republic of primary vocational education“Vocational School No. 28, Mariinsky Posad” Maxim Zotimov, student of the municipal budgetary general educational institution“Gymnasium No. 1”, Mariinsky Posad Valeria Maksimova, student of the state-owned special (correctional) educational institution of the Chuvash Republic for students and pupils with disabilities “Cheboksary special (correctional) comprehensive boarding school” Alexander Alexandrov, for his courage and determination in rescuing people on the water were awarded medals “For saving the dead.”
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You don't have to be mature and experienced to save lives. The main thing is to have a clear mind, courage and a kind heart. The main prize in the special category of the festival “Children-Heroes” is awarded to a second-grade student of the Gzhel secondary school, which is located in the village of Gzhel, Ramensky district, Moscow region, Maria Zyabrikova.
On January 12, 2010, at 19:22, the central fire department in the city of Voskresensk received a message about a fire at the address: Tsuryupa village, st. Tsentralnaya, 3. The dispatcher sent duty guards from four fire departments to the place of the call.
At the time of the fire, there were three adults in the burning apartment - spouses Tatyana and Alexander, Alexander's brother Sergei, as well as two children - six-year-old Masha Zyabrikova and her six-month-old brother Dima.
We thought that the children were inside,” says neighbor Roza Zintsova, who discovered the fire and reported it. - But, fortunately, they were saved. Initially, apparently, it caught fire in the corridor, and thus not only the exit was blocked, but also access to water, since our neighbors only had it in the bathroom. And besides, the ceilings in the apartment were made of plastic panels, and after two breaths you could lose consciousness.”
As Masha said after the tragedy, her mother told her: “Run to Angela. I am now." Well done girl! Another would be: where am I without my mother... But Masha is not. She took her little brother in her arms and climbed out through the window. Frost minus fifteen, she ran into the entrance with Dima in her arms, wanted to take a stroller to put Dima in there. But there were no pillows, no blankets, nothing. She grabbed her brother and ran to her mother’s friend. Barefoot…
Car parents and uncle, unfortunately, died in a fire. Now Masha and Dima live with their grandparents in a private house in the village of Obukhovo. Maria Zyabrikova was awarded the medal of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations “For courage in a fire.”
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A student of the Kursk Automotive Technical College, 17-year-old Mikhail Buklaga, was awarded the medal “For saving the dead” for his courage and determination in saving people in extreme conditions. The corresponding decree was signed by the President of the Russian Federation.
The guy is actively involved in the military-patriotic club “Slavs”, takes part in trips to places of military glory, and grows up good, kind, hardworking and sympathetic. In the summer, Misha saved a neighbor who was drowning in a pond and suffered from heart failure in the water. Had help been late, a tragedy would have occurred. The guy had no idea that for his courage in saving a drowning man on the line on September 1, he would be honored as a real hero.
There was another case when Mikhail saw an unconscious woman lying on the street. The young man could not pass by; he stopped and recognized her as a friend of his mother. “I ran after the elders, naturally, they called an ambulance, sent the woman to the hospital - it turned out that she had a heart attack,” says Mikhail Buklaga.
Mikhail Buklaga dreams of becoming a professional rescuer and working for the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
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Nastya Erokhin, a 1st grade student at school No. 27 in Tomsk, is now called “rescuer” by her classmates. A seven-year-old girl pulled her younger sister and she was able to get out of the burning house.
Fire in a single-family home log house on the street The 5th Army occurred on the afternoon of January 11. Nastya Erokhina and her five-year-old sister Lena were alone at home - the girls’ mother had left the apartment for a short time. When Nastya realized that the house was on fire, it was no longer possible to exit through the door - the veranda of the house was engulfed in fire.
But Nastya was not taken aback and closed the door behind her. However, acrid smoke quickly began to fill the house. Attempts to escape through the windows were initially unsuccessful. In the smoke, it was difficult to open only the window in the children's room halfway - the sofa propping it up was in the way. The hardest thing was with Lena - the younger sister greatly panicked, got entangled in the curtains and resisted in every possible way. Finally, having pushed past her sister, Nastya herself was able to squeeze through the narrow opening. Having jumped out into the street without clothes, the girls ran to the store where their grandmother works.
The soldiers of the 10th fire department who arrived on the scene were quickly able to control the fire, preventing it from spreading. As a result of the fire, only the veranda burned out and the apartment became smoky.
This act could not go unnoticed by Tomsk firefighters. On January 27, at the school where Nastya studies, there was extraordinary activity from early morning. The bell from the second lesson was 10 minutes early. Everyone was asked to go to the gym. At a general meeting in front of teachers and school students, rescuers awarded Nastya a diploma and a soft toy. In Nastya’s hands is a certificate: “For skillful and decisive actions, courage and self-control shown in an emergency situation when saving people in a fire.” Nastya’s mother and grandmother did not hide their tears on the line. Finally, having come to her senses a little, Valentina Erokhina, Nastya’s grandmother, admits that girls were always taught how to behave in such a situation, which is why, she believes, Nastya was not at a loss.
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In January 2011, in the village of Roshchinsky, Chaplyginsky district, Lipetsk region, where 12-year-old Nikita Medvedev lives with his parents, risking his own health and even life, a brave hero saved 8-year-old Volodya Dynko (Benko). The children were playing near the Stanovaya Ryasa River, no one noticed how Volodya went out onto the ice and fell through, only after a while the children heard the boy calling for help and with the last of his strength holding on to the thin paradise of the ice crust. The guys got scared, they started looking for a stick to pull Volodya out. Nikita, despite his young age, made the immediate and only correct decision; he rushed into the water and began to save the boy.
While everyone was looking for a stick, I saw that Volodya was already slipping and could not hold on. I realized that they wouldn’t have time to bring the stick,” said Nikita Medvedev. Having pulled the child out of the water onto the ice, it cracked, and the two of them found themselves in icy water. Nikita was not at a loss here either, he dived, picked up Volodya, who had already gone under the water, and together they reached the shore. The rescued baby was brought home by local children, and the wet Nikita ran to his grandmother’s house.
On March 5, Nikita Medvedev and his family were invited to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and were presented with a medal “For Excellence in Eliminating the Consequences of Emergency Situations.” According to the Regulations, the medal is awarded for distinction, courage and dedication shown when performing tasks to eliminate the consequences of an emergency situation in conditions involving a risk to life; skillful, proactive and decisive actions that contributed to the successful implementation of emergency response measures.
Nikita himself does not consider himself a hero. He says if such a situation happened again, he would do the same. The young hero enjoyed saving people so much that now he knows exactly who to be. He dreams of working in the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
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Ershova Alexandra Evgenevna, or simply Sasha Ershova - a heroic Tver girl, a student of school No. 35, accomplished a feat during a terrible disaster at the Transvaal water park on February 14, 2004.
Sasha, his mother Lyuba and his father Zhenya live in Tver. For dad's birthday we decided to go to Moscow. Where to go in the capital? Dad decided to show his child a real huge water park! Sasha with early childhood I went swimming, and in the water I feel like a fish.
…….When the vaults of the water park collapsed, Sasha, sandwiched between concrete blocks, held a completely unfamiliar person above the water for a long time three year old girl I wave.
“Suddenly something crunched overhead and a huge beam fell next to me,” says Sasha. “I dived and saw a little girl going under the water next to me. I realized that she couldn’t swim and grabbed her under the chest. I surfaced with her and began to console her.
The girls did not have time to jump out of the pool. Heavy slabs stacked up like a house of cards right above their heads. Sasha’s head stuck out of the water, and a frightened baby in a bright swimsuit pressed against the swimmer’s chest.
In that extreme situation It seemed to second-grader Sasha that she held little Masha in her arms for only thirty minutes. In fact, she had to wait for rescuers for a good hour and a half. All this time she held the girl in her arms, without feeling that her left arm was broken.
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Sergei Prytkov, like other kids, goes to school, plays the guitar, walks with his peers in the yard, and he also accomplished a real feat - he saved a little girl from a fire. It happened in the village of Sukhonogovo, where Sergei was visiting relatives. There was a fire in his aunt's house. Hearing screams from the street, the boy saw part of the house on fire. Without a moment's hesitation, he rushed to help. The owner and her little daughter were able to get out of the house by breaking a window, but her second daughter remained in the burning room.
Sergei rushed into the burning room after the frightened baby. In the kitchen, the linoleum and the legs of the stool on which the girl was standing were already burning. The fire engulfed the ceiling. Another minute or two and something irreparable could have happened. But Sergei found the child and managed to take her out into the street, and then, handing her over to reliable hands, he took part in putting out the fire.
They were able to put out the fire on their own. The modest guy took his action for granted and didn’t talk much about it. And he didn’t even expect that his feat would become known at school. The All-Russian Voluntary Firefighting Society awarded Sergei the medal “For valor and courage in a fire.” Seryozha came to the award ceremony with his mother, behaved very modestly and seemed even a little embarrassed by the attention shown to him. And when asked how he was not afraid to step into a burning house in order to save a child’s life, he answered that he simply could not do otherwise.
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Fourth grade student Trofim Zhendrinsky awarded the medal of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations “For courage in a fire.” Trofim pulled two guys out of the fire. This story happened last spring in the small village of Balagany, Verkhnevilyuysky district. On March 12, 2012, a residential building caught fire in the evening.
The fire occurred on the veranda of one of the apartments where the Zhendrinsky family lived. The parents were not at home at the time of the fire. Spouses Oktyabrina Trofimovna and Ivan Ivanovich are technical workers at a local school; at that moment they were at work.
At home were Trofim and two younger children whom he was looking after - a brother and sister. Seeing the flames walking along the veranda, the boy was not taken aback and carried his brother and sister out of the burning building. However, this was not easy to do: the frightened children huddled under the bed and did not want to leave their shelter.
Trofim was the first to carry his brother out of the smoke-filled apartment. Leaving him in the snow, he again ran into the house for his sister. He dragged his resisting sister out of the apartment by force. And then the adult neighbors arrived and began to put out the flames.
The fire was reported to the local fire department in the neighboring village of Khomustakh. Firefighters arrived at the scene and extinguished the fire.
“Trofim is no different from his peers. Calm, friendly boy with a sense of responsibility. Very sociable, cheerful.
Despite such a young age, Trofim Ivanovich Zhendrinsky showed strong personal qualities: dedication, courage, boldness and the ability to act clearly and competently in a difficult and dangerous environment. Trofim acted correctly, did not succumb to fear and panic, and showed courage worthy of an adult. Thanks to courageous, decisive and competent actions, the children remained unharmed,” noted employees of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.
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In Chechnya a little boy performed a truly heroic act. A child saved his little brother from a burning house. The fire occurred in the early morning of November 9, 2012 in a private house in the small village of Bachi-Yurt. Five children, a mother and grandmother were sleeping in the house. A strong crack and noise from the fire woke up the residents, the press service of the Chechen Ministry of Emergency Situations reported.
The rooms were already engulfed in flames, cutting off the path to the exit from the house. The eldest son in the family, seven-year-old Khamzat Yakubov, was not at a loss. He bravely grabbed the smallest and most helpless child and, breaking the glass, climbed through the window. The boy put the baby at a safe distance and ran to his closest relatives to call for help.
Firefighters who arrived at the scene soon extinguished the raging fire. Fortunately, no one died. Five family members received various burns. They were sent by the Ministry of Emergency Situations for treatment to a Moscow hospital.
The Main Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Chechen Republic is preparing a presentation for awarding Khamzat with the medal “For Courage in a Fire.”
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Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Vladimir Puchkov congratulated his colleagues on Rescuer Day and told AiF about the results of the year:
The past year has been very difficult. Large-scale emergencies and serious fires arose - every other day it was necessary to activate federal response mechanisms. This is the situation in Chelyabinsk associated with. There, in the most difficult winter conditions, rescuers urgently restored windows in buildings. These include floods in the Magadan, Rostov, Chelyabinsk regions, in Bashkortostan, where residential buildings and social infrastructure facilities were flooded, transport communications, energy, and communications were disrupted. This is a tornado in the Tula region, serious fires in the north of the country, and other emergencies.
And of course, . A combined force of 46 thousand people worked there, assistance was provided in more than 150 cities and towns in six Far Eastern regions, 32 thousand people were evacuated. In just one year, more than 250 thousand human lives were saved, more than 130 thousand fires were extinguished.
The events of the past year have confirmed: every employee of the Ministry of Emergency Situations is, first of all, a professional, a person who is mentally prepared to fulfill his duty, sometimes in the most difficult conditions - to provide all possible and impossible assistance to people in trouble.
But side by side with us in the most difficult situations Military personnel, law enforcement officers, doctors, government officials, and volunteers worked. We are grateful to the volunteers and ordinary people who do not pass by someone else’s misfortune, providing possible and necessary help. Rescuer's Day - and their holiday.
Almost like Uncle Styopa
Alexander Mordvov climbed into an open fire in a fireman's jacket from someone else's shoulder and homemade training pants. Photo: From the personal archive of Alexander Mordvov
U senior lieutenant of the Samara fire service Alexander Mordvov It was a day off. But at about 6 am his mother woke him up: “Look out the window, the house opposite is on fire!”
The five-story Khrushchev building was on fire. The flames spread to the house from a pile of rubbish piled under the first floor balcony, and with incredible speed began to devour apartment after apartment. Alexander professionally quickly put on a tracksuit and rushed to the scene of the emergency, although the fire brigade was already working there. And just in time - the flames clearly outmaneuvered the firefighters. Alexander led the woman, who had inhaled fumes, out of the entrance. But it became even more difficult to go inside again - due to the dense smoke, it was no longer possible to work in the entrance without special equipment. Having borrowed a “fighter jacket” - a special jacket - from the firefighters, he ran behind the house, where they were just installing a fire ladder, and climbed up.
One by one, he literally carried the residents down in his arms. Courageously endured the evacuation to strong hands even a one-and-a-half-year-old baby (pictured) from an EMERCOM employee. Help soon arrived and the flames were gradually extinguished. In 15 minutes of participation in the special operation, Alexander managed to take nine adults and three children out of the fire. Having recovered from the fire, the rescued residents of the house tried to find the unknown hero, but, naturally, he was not on the list of firefighters who were on shift that day. As a result, they found their savior using word of mouth - interviewing residents of neighboring houses. Neighbors of the humble firefighter spoke about his selfless heroic deed. The fire victims won a medal from the mayor for their savior in a training suit - for his services to Samara.Elvira Kagirova (“AiF-Samara”)
Foundling valve
The puppy was found in a ventilation shaft... Photo: From the personal archive of Alexander Permyakov
On a summer evening, the Ufa search and rescue team received a strange call: “Something is screaming in an inhuman voice inside the ventilation pipe!”
The unknown creature terrified the residents for the second day: “What if it crawls out into our kitchen?!” Climbing to the attic of a five-story building, Alexander Permyakov looked into the ventilation shaft. Two greenish lights lit up in the light of the lantern, the “creature” whined and turned out to be... an ordinary puppy. The narrow shaft made it impossible to turn around or bend over, and sweat poured into my eyes. But the rescuer managed to grab the dog’s tail with his fingertips. “Guys, pull, I’m done!” - he shouted exhaustedly to his partners. The main savior, while he was bending over, extracting the prisoner who had somehow gotten into the ventilation, came up with a nickname for him: Ventilator. Now much older, Ventil lives at the rescue base and even managed to catch a thief who tried to steal the car of one of the Emergencies Ministry employees.
Aigul Nurgalieva("AiF-Bashkiria")
Took the hit
There were seconds left for the only correct decision. Photo: From the personal archive of Konstantin Lukyanov
A team of Saratov rescuers set out to rescue the passengers of a bus that was stuck on a rain-filled street. Well, what kind of heroism, it would seem, if you just needed to “get people through a puddle”?
On June 24 in Saratov, rain flooded half the city - Tankistov Street was almost completely submerged. In the middle of it, the bus on route 90 stalled, taking a sip of water from its engine. Rescuers were sent to rescue the victims of an unexpected “shipwreck”. Team driver Konstantin Lukyanov parked nearby and, sitting behind the wheel of his KamAZ, watched as his comrades, one after another, ferried the bus passengers onto the sidewalk, to the bus stop. And suddenly - oh horror! - a multi-ton truck that has lost control rushes towards the bus stop, crushing one car after another! A few more seconds - and a multi-ton truck will crash into a crowd of people at a bus stop. Lukyanov made a decision instantly. Having pulled out onto the roadway across from the truck, he hit the brakes... “I didn’t think about myself at that moment,” recalls the hero rescuer. “There were people at the stop, they needed to be saved.” Later, traffic police officers will count, report 17 victims (all of them are drivers and passengers of cars stuck in a traffic jam) and note: thanks to Lukyanov’s prompt actions, they managed to avoid the worst thing - the loss of life.
Daria Stepanyuk (“AiF-Saratov”)
To the kids
The only girl rescuer in Arkhangelsk works equally with men. Photo: From the personal archive of Olesya Berdennikova
There are often casualties in fires and road accidents... - says , rescuer from Arkhangelsk. - But there are stories with a happy ending.
Once we were called to a kindergarten. We arrive, and there are screams, crying, fuss: one of the kids was playing with a children's collapsible pyramid, and his finger got stuck in one of the rings. I had to take wire cutters and, breaking the toy, free the baby. Happiness knew no bounds - after all, real rescuers came to him! Another kid managed to put an iron children's potty on his head. We removed this unusual headdress using vegetable oil.
Anna Nechay (“AiF-Arkhangelsk”)
Bow to you
Oleg Kozhemyako, Governor of the Amur Region.: “From the thousands of rescued Amur residents, many thanks to all the personnel of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, who during these difficult months transported people from flooded areas and delivered humanitarian aid to remote settlements. Low bow to you."
Vladimir Gruzdev, Governor of the Tula region.: “Rescue units from seven regions arrived to help the Tula residents. We never felt abandoned for a minute. People worked around the clock to help us. - Ed.)".
Sergey Bozhenov, governor of the Volgograd region.: “After the fires of 2010, conclusions were drawn, close cooperation was established with the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. The regional budget finds funds to ensure that fire stations are equipped with modern equipment.”
Mikhail Abyzov, Minister for Open Government Affairs: “To increase the openness of the public administration system, a process of public presentation of goals and objectives by ministries and departments has been launched. Ministries will have to declare them publicly for a year. I am very pleased that the Ministry of Emergency Situations was the first to respond; it is an example of open government in all areas.”
On the eve of Defender of the Fatherland Day and the seventieth anniversary of Victory, heroes of bygone times are increasingly remembered. But even in our time there are people who, out of duty, risk their lives every day. FederalPress compiled a list of the top 10 heroes who gave their lives for others in peacetime. Of course, there are much more than ten stories about the courage of doctors, firefighters, police officers, soldiers and officers.
On the eve of Defender of the Fatherland Day and the seventieth anniversary of Victory, heroes of bygone times are increasingly remembered. But even in our time there are people who, out of duty, risk their lives every day. FederalPress compiled the top 10 heroes who gave their lives for others in peacetime. Of course, there are much more than ten stories about the courage of doctors, firefighters, police officers, soldiers and officers. We just wanted to remind you that there is always a place for heroism in life.
In September 2014, an emergency occurred on the territory of a military unit during an exercise in Lesnoy. Lance Sergeant pulled the pin on the grenade and dropped the ammunition. Colonel Serik Sultangabiev managed to react in time.
President of Russia on the recommendation of the command Internal troops signed a decree conferring the highest rank "" on the colonel.
In July 2014, several journalists and photojournalist Andrei Stenin went to Donbass to provide reliable information about what was happening in southeastern Ukraine.
The circumstances of the death of Andrei Stenin in Donbass. As FederalPress previously reported, the column of refugees in which the photographer was located came under fire northwest of the village of Dmitrovka. The Ukrainian army, presumably the 79th airmobile brigade, opened fire on the vehicles of civilians with cannons and machine guns. As a result, ten cars were destroyed, but several people managed to escape and hide in the roadside bushes.
The next day, representatives of the Ukrainian command inspected the site of the shelling of the convoy, after which the area with the remains of the dead and broken cars processed rocket launchers"Grad". All journalists who died in Donbass were posthumously awarded.
Last June, a major accident occurred at the Achinsk Oil Refinery. During startup work at the gas fractionation unit, a volumetric explosion and fire occurred. As a result.
In January 2012, a fire occurred in the basement of a residential building in Omsk. Thick black smoke came from there and enveloped the second entrance of the house; people were asking for help from the windows. Arriving firefighters evacuated 38 people, eight of them children, and went to the smoky basement.
Despite zero visibility, the fire brigade, led by senior warrant officer of the sixth fire department Alexander Kozhemyakin, removed two gas cylinders that could have exploded.
Half an hour later, the firefighters' breathing apparatus alarms went off. This meant that the air in the cylinders was running out. Kozhemyakin, realizing that there was a real threat to the lives of his subordinates, became the leader and helped his comrades get out of the smoke-filled and cluttered basement. While freeing a subordinate entangled in a wire, the commander suddenly lost consciousness. For more than an hour, emergency doctors tried to bring him back to life, but without regaining consciousness. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage.
In September 2010, a fire broke out in the engine room of the destroyer Bystry at the Fokino naval base due to a short circuit in the wiring when a fuel pipeline broke. Aldar Tsydenzhapov, who took up duty as a boiler crew operator, immediately rushed to plug the leak. He was in the center of the fire for about nine seconds; after eliminating the leak, he was able to independently get out of the compartment engulfed in flames, receiving severe burns. The prompt actions of Aldar and his colleagues led to the timely shutdown of the ship's power plant, which otherwise could have exploded and caused severe damage to the ship.
Aldar was taken to the Pacific Fleet hospital in Vladivostok in serious condition. Doctors fought for his life for four days, but he died. In 2011, the sailor posthumously became.
Every day in Russia, ordinary citizens perform feats and do not pass by when someone needs help. A country should know its heroes, so this selection is dedicated to brave, caring people who have proven by their deeds that heroism has a place in our lives.
1. An unusual incident with a miraculous rescue occurred in the city of Lesnoy. A 26-year-old engineer named Vladimir Startsev saved a two-year-old girl who fell from a fourth-floor balcony.
“I was returning from the sports ground, where I was training with children. “I saw some kind of pandemonium,” Startsev recalls. “People under the balcony were fussing, shouting something, waving their arms. I raise my head up, and there is a little girl, with her last strength, grabbing onto the outer edge of the balcony.” Here, according to Vladimir, he developed the climber’s syndrome. Moreover, the athlete has been practicing sambo and rock climbing for many years. Physical form allowed. He assessed the situation and intended to climb the wall to the fourth floor.
“I’m already prepared to jump onto the first floor balcony, I look up, and the child is flying down! I instantly regrouped and relaxed my muscles to catch it. We were taught this way during training,” says Vladimir Startsev. “She landed right in my arms, cried, of course, she was scared.”
2. It happened on August 15th. That day, my sister and nephews and I came to the river to swim. Everything was fine - heat, sun, water. Then my sister says to me: “Lesha, look, a man has drowned, there, he’s floating past. The drowned man was carried away fast current, and I had to run about 350 meters until I caught up. And our river is mountainous, there are cobblestones, while I was running, I fell several times, but I got up and continued running, and barely caught up. 
The drowned man turned out to be a child. The face shows all the signs of a drowned person - an unnaturally swollen belly, a bluish-black body, swollen veins. I didn't even understand if it was a boy or a girl. He pulled the child ashore and began pouring water out of him. The stomach, the lungs - everything was filled with water, the tongue kept sinking. I asked the people standing nearby for a towel. No one served, they were disdainful, they were afraid of the girl’s appearance, and they spared their beautiful towels for her. And I'm wearing nothing but swimming trunks. Due to the fast running, and while I was pulling her out of the water, I was exhausted, there was not enough air for artificial respiration.
About resuscitation
Thank God, my colleague, nurse Olga, was passing by, but she was on the other side. She started screaming for me to bring the child to her shore. The child, who swallowed water, became incredibly heavy. The men responded to the request to take the girl to the other side. There Olga and I continued all resuscitation efforts. They drained the water as best they could, did cardiac massage, artificial respiration, for 15-20 minutes there was no reaction, neither from the girl nor from the onlookers standing nearby. I asked to call an ambulance, no one called, and the ambulance station was nearby, 150 meters away. Olga and I couldn’t afford to be distracted even for a second, so we couldn’t even call. After some time, a boy was found and he ran to call for help. In the meantime, we were all trying to revive a little girl, five years old. Out of despair, Olga even began to cry; it seemed that there was no hope. Everyone around said, stop these useless attempts, you will break all her ribs, why are you mocking the dead man. But then the girl sighed, and the nurse who came running heard the sounds of a heartbeat.
3. A third grader saved three young children from a burning hut. For his heroism, 11-year-old Dima Filyushin was almost flogged at home. 
... On the day when a fire broke out on the outskirts of the village, twin brothers Andryusha and Vasya and five-year-old Nastya were alone at home. Mom left for work. Dima was returning from school when he noticed flames in the neighbors' windows. The boy looked inside - the curtains were on fire, and three-year-old Vasya was sleeping next to him on the bed. Of course, the schoolboy could have called the rescue service, but without hesitation, he rushed to save the kids himself.
4. A young 17-year-old girl from Zarechny, Marina Safarova, became a real hero. The girl used a sheet to pull the fishermen, her brother, and the snowmobile out of the hole. 
Before the onset of spring, the young people decided to last time visit the Sursky Reservoir, in the Penza region, and after that “give up” until next year, since the ice is no longer as reliable as a month ago. Without going far, the guys left the car on the shore, and they themselves moved 40 meters from the edge and drilled holes. While her brother was fishing, the girl drew sketches of the landscape, and after a couple of hours she froze and went to the car to warm up, and at the same time warm up the engine.
Under the weight of the motorized equipment, the ice could not stand it and broke in the places where the holes were drilled, like after a hammer drill. People began to drown, the snowmobile hung on the edge of the ice by its ski, this entire structure threatened to break off completely, then people would have had very little chance of salvation. The men clung with all their strength to the edge of the ice hole, but their warm clothes immediately got wet and literally pulled them to the bottom. In this situation, Marina did not think about the possible danger and rushed to the rescue.
Having grabbed her brother, the girl, however, was unable to help him in any way, since the ratio of the forces of our heroine and the superior mass turned out to be too unequal. Run for help? But not a single living soul is visible in the area, only a company of the same fishermen can be seen on the horizon. Go to the city for help?
So for now time will pass people can simply drown from hypothermia. Thinking like this, Marina intuitively ran to the car. Having opened the trunk in search of an item that could help in the situation, the girl drew attention to the bag of bed linen that she had taken from the laundry. - The first thing that came to mind was to twist a rope out of sheets, tie it to the car and try to pull them out. – Marinochka remembers
The pile of laundry was enough for almost 30 meters, it could have been longer, but the girl tied the improvised cable with double calculation.
“I’ve never braided braids so quickly,” the rescuer laughs, “in about three minutes I braided about thirty meters, this is a record.” The girl risked driving the remaining distance to the people on the ice.
- Near the shore it is still very strong, I slid onto the ice and slowly drove backwards. She opened the door just in case and drove off. The cable made from the sheets turned out to be so strong that in the end they pulled out not only people, but also a snowmobile. After the rescue operation was completed, the men took off their clothes and climbed into the car.
- I don’t even have a license yet, I took it, but I’ll get it only in a month, when I turn 18. While I was driving them home, I was worried that traffic cops would suddenly come across me, and I would have no license, although in theory they would have let me go, or helped me take everyone home.
5. Little hero of Buryatia - this is how 5-year-old Danila Zaitsev was dubbed in the republic. This little boy saved his older sister Valya from death. When the girl fell into the wormwood, her brother held her for half an hour so that the current would not drag Valya under the ice. 
When the boy’s hands were cold and tired, he grabbed his sister’s hood with his teeth and did not let go until his neighbor, 15-year-old Ivan Zhamyanov, came to the rescue. The teenager was able to pull Valya out of the water and carried the exhausted and frozen girl in his arms to his home. There the child was wrapped in a blanket and given hot tea.
Having learned about this story, the leadership of the local school turned to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations with a request to reward both boys for their heroic deed.
6. 35-year-old resident of Uralsk Rinat Fardiev was repairing his car when he suddenly heard a loud knock. Running to the scene of the incident, he saw a sinking car and, without thinking twice, rushed into the icy water and began to pull out the victims. 
“At the scene of the accident, I saw the confused driver and passengers of the VAZ, who in the darkness could not understand where the car they crashed into had gone. Then I followed the tracks of the wheels down and found the Audi upside down in the river. I immediately entered the water and began to pull people out of the car. First I took out the driver and the passenger who was sitting in the front seat, and then the two passengers in the back seat. They were already unconscious at that time.”
Unfortunately, one of the people saved by Rinat did not survive - a 34-year-old passenger in the Audi died from hypothermia. Other victims were hospitalized and have now been discharged. Rinat himself works as a driver and does not see any special heroism in his action. “Even at the scene of the accident, the traffic cops told me that they would decide on my promotion. But from the very beginning I did not seek publicity or receive any awards; the main thing is that I managed to save people,” he said.
7. A Saratovite who pulled two little boys out of the water: “I thought that I didn’t know how to swim. But when I heard the screams, I immediately forgot about everything.” 
The screams were heard by a local resident, 26-year-old Vadim Prodan. Running up to the concrete slabs, he saw Ilya drowning. The boy was 20 meters from the shore. The man, without wasting time, rushed to save the boy. In order to pull the child out, Vadim had to dive several times - but when Ilya appeared from under the water, he was still conscious. On the shore, the boy told Vadim about his friend, who was no longer visible.
The man returned to the water and swam towards the reeds. He began to dive and look for the child, but he was nowhere to be seen. And suddenly Vadim felt his hand catch on something - diving again, he found Misha. Grabbing him by the hair, the man pulled the boy ashore, where he performed artificial respiration. A few minutes later Misha regained consciousness. A little later, Ilya and Misha were taken to the Ozinsk Central Hospital.
“I always thought to myself that I didn’t know how to swim, just to stay on the water a little,” Vadim admits, “But as soon as I heard the screams, I immediately forgot about everything, and there was no fear, there was only one thought in my head - I need to help.
While saving the boys, Vadim hit a piece of reinforcement lying in the water and suffered a leg injury. Later at the hospital he received several stitches.
8. Schoolchildren from Krasnodar region Roman Vitkov and Mikhail Serdyuk rescued an elderly woman from a burning house. 
While heading home, they saw a building on fire. Running into the yard, the schoolchildren saw that the veranda was almost completely engulfed in fire. Roman and Mikhail rushed into the barn to get a tool. Grabbing a sledgehammer and an ax, breaking out the window, Roman climbed into the window opening. An elderly woman was sleeping in a smoky room. They managed to get the victim out only after breaking the door.
9. A in Chelyabinsk region priest Alexey Peregudov saved the life of the groom at the wedding. 
During the wedding, the groom lost consciousness. The only one who was not at a loss in this situation was Priest Alexey Peregudov. He quickly examined the man lying down, suspected cardiac arrest and provided first aid, including chest compressions. As a result, the sacrament was successfully completed. Father Alexey noted that he had only seen chest compressions in movies.
10. A veteran distinguished himself in Mordovia Chechen war Marat Zinatullin, who saved an elderly man from a burning apartment. 
Having witnessed the fire, Marat acted like a professional firefighter. He climbed up the fence onto a small barn, and from there climbed onto the balcony. He broke the glass, opened the door leading from the balcony to the room, and got inside. The 70-year-old owner of the apartment was lying on the floor. The pensioner, who was poisoned by smoke, could not leave the apartment on his own. Marat, opening front door from the inside, carried the owner of the house into the entrance.
11. An employee of the Kostroma colony, Roman Sorvachev, saved the lives of his neighbors in a fire. 
Entering the entrance of his house, he immediately identified the apartment from which the smell of smoke was coming. The door was opened by a drunk man who assured that everything was fine. However, Roman called the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The rescuers who arrived at the scene of the fire were unable to enter the premises through the door, and the uniform of an Emergencies Ministry employee prevented them from entering the apartment through the narrow window frame. Then Roman climbed up the fire escape, entered the apartment and pulled out an elderly woman and an unconscious man from a heavily smoky apartment.
12. Resident of the village of Yurmash (Bashkortostan) Rafit Shamsutdinov saved two children in a fire. 
Fellow villager Rafita lit the stove and, leaving two children - a three-year-old girl and one and a half year old son, went to school with the older children. Rafit Shamsutdinov noticed smoke from the burning house. Despite the abundance of smoke, he managed to enter the burning room and take out the children.
13. Dagestani Arsen Fitzulaev prevented a disaster at a gas station in Kaspiysk. Only later did Arsen realize that he was actually risking his life. 
An explosion unexpectedly occurred at one of the gas stations within the boundaries of Kaspiysk. As it turned out later, a foreign car driving at high speed crashed into a gas tank and knocked down the valve. A minute of delay, and the fire would have spread to nearby tanks with flammable fuel. In such a scenario, casualties could not be avoided. However, the situation was radically changed by a modest gas station worker, who, through skillful actions, prevented the disaster and reduced its scale to a burnt-out car and several damaged cars.
14. And in the village of Ilyinka-1, Tula region, schoolchildren Andrei Ibronov, Nikita Sabitov, Andrei Navruz, Vladislav Kozyrev and Artem Voronin pulled a pensioner out of a well. 
78-year-old Valentina Nikitina fell into a well and could not get out on her own. Andrei Ibronov and Nikita Sabitov heard the cries for help and immediately rushed to save the elderly woman. However, three more guys had to be called in for help - Andrei Navruz, Vladislav Kozyrev and Artem Voronin. Together the guys managed to pull an elderly pensioner out of the well. “I tried to climb out, the well is shallow - I even reached the edge with my hand. But it was so slippery and cold that I couldn’t grab the hoop. And when I raised my arms, ice water poured into my sleeves. I screamed, called for help, but the well is located far from residential buildings and roads, so no one heard me. How long this lasted, I don’t even know... Soon I began to feel sleepy, with the last of my strength I raised my head and suddenly saw two boys looking into the well!” – said the victim.
15. In Bashkiria, a first-grader saved a three-year-old child from icy water. 
When Nikita Baranov from the village of Tashkinovo, Krasnokamsk region, accomplished his feat, he was only seven. Once, while playing with friends on the street, a first-grader heard a child crying coming from a trench. They installed gas in the village: the dug holes were filled with water, and three-year-old Dima fell into one of them. There were no builders or other adults nearby, so Nikita himself pulled the choking boy to the surface
16. A man in the Moscow region saved his 11-month-old son from death by cutting the boy’s throat and inserting the base of a fountain pen there so that the choking baby could breathe. 
An 11-month-old baby's tongue sunk and he stopped breathing. The father, realizing that seconds were counting, took kitchen knife, made an incision in the son’s throat and inserted a tube into it, which he made from a pen.
17. Shielded my brother from bullets. The story took place at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. 
In Ingushetia, it is customary for children to congratulate friends and relatives in their homes at this time. Zalina Arsanova and her younger brother were leaving the entrance when shots were heard. In a neighboring yard, an attempt was made on one of the FSB officers. When the first bullet pierced the facade of the nearest house, the girl realized that it was shooting, and younger brother is in the line of fire, and covered him with herself. girl with gunshot wound was taken to Malgobek Clinical Hospital No. 1, where she underwent surgery. Surgeons had to assemble the internal organs of a 12-year-old child literally piece by piece. Luckily everyone survived
18. Students of the Iskitim branch of the Novosibirsk Assembly College - 17-year-old Nikita Miller and 20-year-old Vlad Volkov - became real heroes of the Siberian town. 
Of course: the guys captured an armed robber who was trying to rob a grocery kiosk.
19. A young man from Kabardino-Balkaria saved a child in a fire. 
In the village of Shithala, Urvan district of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, a residential building caught fire. Even before the firefighters arrived, the entire neighborhood came running to the house. No one dared to enter the burning room. Twenty-year-old Beslan Taov, having learned that there was a child left in the house, without hesitation, rushed to his aid. Having previously doused himself with water, he entered the burning house and a few minutes later came out with the baby in his arms. The boy named Tamerlan was unconscious; in a few minutes he could not be saved. Thanks to the heroism of Beslan, the child remained alive.
20. A resident of St. Petersburg did not allow the girl to die. 
A resident of St. Petersburg, Igor Sivtsov, was driving a car when he saw a drowning man in the waters of the Neva. Igor immediately called the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and then attempted to save the drowning girl on his own.
Bypassing the traffic jam, he came as close as possible to the parapet of the embankment, where the drowning woman was carried by the current. As it turned out, the woman did not want to be saved; she tried to take her own life by jumping from the Volodarsky Bridge. After talking with the girl, Igor convinced her to swim to the shore, where he managed to pull her out. After that, he turned on all the heaters in his car and sat the victim down to warm up until the ambulance arrived.
Every heroic deed is worthy of admiration and respect, and the VZGLYAD newspaper traditionally did not rank them except in chronological order.
Senior warrant officer of the Taman Division of the Missile Forces strategic purpose near Saratov, Dmitry Voitik, driving past the river, noticed two sisters of eight and ten years old on thin ice and decided to warn the girls about the danger, but even before the car stopped, the children found themselves in the water. Dmitry rushed to help. When he ran closer to the ice hole, the ice under him began to crack, so the ensign had to crawl for several meters. He also pulled out the girls lying down.
The soldier took the rescued sisters home and left without telling either his acquaintances or colleagues about what had happened. The parents were able to find the savior of their daughters only after a week.
For this feat, Dmitry Voitik, a third-generation soldier who served in the Missile Forces for 23 years, was awarded the medal “For Saving the Victims,” the Zvezda TV channel reports.
A 24-year-old resident of Dagestan, Marat Rakhmetov, heard cries for help from two 14-year-old schoolgirls while relaxing on the banks of the Mozzhinka River near Zvenigorod near Moscow, and rushed into the water, despite the fact that he did not know how to swim. The man managed to push the girls into the shallow water, but due to the uneven bottom and strong current he was unable to get out.
Marat Rakhmetov was the only child in the family of a professor at the Dagestan Pedagogical Institute and a geography teacher. He came to the capital to work, hoping to return home in August, where his bride was waiting for him.
Rakhmetov was posthumously awarded the medal of the Commissioner for Human Rights “Hurry to do good,” and the governor of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov sent his parents a “Thank you” sign, RIA Novosti reports.
56-year-old resident of Krasnoyarsk Vladimir Stepanchenko witnessed a collision between Mazda and Lexus cars on the Baikal highway. Three passengers in the first car died on the spot; seven people in the second car, including four children, survived, but were trapped in the car that caught fire.
Stepanchenko broke the side windows of the car, cut the seat belts with a knife and pulled out all seven passengers of the Lexus at a time when the flames had already engulfed the entire interior of the jeep.
For his concern and determination in saving people in trouble, the Ministry of Internal Affairs expressed gratitude to Stepanchenko and presented him with a Finnish knife and an e-book.
Eighth-grader Yura Primakov from the seaside village of Pukhovo saved pensioner Vladimir Fedorovich and his friend from the Arsenyevka River. The schoolboy swam up to the elderly people on a small raft, first helped the woman grab onto her vehicle and pushed her to the shore, and then pulled the man into the shallow water. While the rescued pensioners were recovering, the young hero left the scene. When grateful adults found their savior, it turned out that he did not even attach any importance to what happened on the beach.
Vladimir Fedorovich gave the young hero a symbolic gift - a watch, and also sent a petition to the district administration with a request to award him the medal “For Salvation”.
When water came to the house of the Andreev family from the Amur village of Vladimirovka, the couple went to their relatives, but big dog nicknamed Druzhok, who had lived in a booth all his life, they decided not to take him into a city apartment and left him under the supervision of neighbors. The Andreevs visited Druzhka for two days, but on the third day they did not find their pet. It turned out that the dog had escaped from the neighbors, swam to the house and, having climbed onto the last step, where the water reached his mouth, remained to wait for the owners, not even allowing the Emergencies Ministry employees near the building, writes Amurskaya Pravda.
A photo posted online of Druzhka sitting up to his neck in water made him famous. Internet users dubbed the dog the “Amur Hachiko,” suggested “feeding a KamAZ truck of bones and sausage,” erecting a monument, and the most emotional ones even called for a Hero star.
When on the night of Friday, September 13, the one-story wooden building of the Novgorod psychoneurological boarding school, built in 1810, was engulfed in flames, 44-year-old nurse, mother of four children Yulia Anufrieva, who was located next to the exit in a small staff room, rushed not into the street, but into the wards. where the bedridden patients were. Literally carrying patients out of the burning building in her arms, Yulia only had time to take a couple of sips of oxygen to return to the smoke-filled corridors. She died a few steps short of the door to the street, NTV reports.
In total, 35 patients died in the fire, but 23 people survived terrible night thanks to Yulia Anufrieva, who became a hero not only for the patients she saved, but for all Russians. “For courage and courage shown in the performance of civil and official duty,” Yulia Anufrieva was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage.
Alexander Alemasov, a ninth-grader from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, was honored to receive a gift personally from the hands of the Minister of Civil Defense Vladimir Puchkov, ITAR-TASS reports.
During the largest flood in the Far East in the last decade, a schoolchild rode a bicycle every day to the Mylkino dam, where, like adults, he loaded bags with sand, tied them and threw them into a bulldozer. Only around 10 pm did the ninth grader go home to start work again the next day. Sasha explained his actions with a desire to help hometown in the fight against the elements.
The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations himself saw the schoolboy while driving around the dam. The dedication with which Sasha worked on the most strategically important site for the city amazed the head of the department, and he, thanking the young man for his dedicated work, personally presented him with a gift.
An explosion occurred in one of the Kurgan magistrates' courts when participants in the trial began to enter the courtroom where the beating case was being heard. When the accused appeared in the room, the metal detector beeped. During the inspection, bailiff Mikhail Malinnikov found a grenade in the man’s pocket and immediately pushed the attacker into the vestibule, where three explosions were heard at the same second. The walls of the front door and the bailiff took on the full power of the shock wave.
Malinnikov died a month before his 30th birthday. The bomber died in the hospital. At the time of the explosion, there were 12 visitors in the court building, only two of whom received minor injuries.
Mikhail Malinnikov was posthumously nominated for the government award “Hero of Russia”.
20-year-old student from Chelyabinsk Mikhail Anfalov, entering the entrance of the house, saw a pedophile beating an eight-year-old girl on the landing. Realizing that he had witnessed a crime, the young man decided to neutralize the rapist. A fight broke out between the student and a two-meter 33-year-old man, during which Mikhail managed to knock the criminal down.
Having dealt the final blow to the pedophile’s head and breaking his leg on it, Anfalov called the police and an ambulance. Private security forces detained the rapist, and doctors took the girl to the intensive care unit, who, as it turned out later, suffered a fracture of the vault of the base of the skull, bruises and maxillofacial injuries, Vesti.ru reports. After two weeks of coma, the schoolgirl came to her senses, her condition has stabilized, but there is still a course of rehabilitation ahead, including psychological.
The young hero has already received certificates of honor and gifts from the governor, and was also awarded by the Investigative Committee of the Chelyabinsk Region.
