Feats of young children in our time. About children-heroes of our days

Heroes of the Fatherland - sonorous, weighty, Reliable, responsible, familiar from childhood!

Beautiful, capacious, clear phrase, In it - honor and dignity, the holiness of the order!

It has faith, love and a soldier's conscience, It has courage, courage, fate, like a story!

It contains valor, courage and the world of humanism, Military service- Olympus of heroism!

The hero of our time... What is he like? What he really is?

What are his qualities?

10 year old Vadim Dikikh

He pulled a two-year-old girl and her mother out of the water, who, through negligence, slipped off an air mattress.

8-year-old Semyon Davydov

Saved my brothers and sisters from the fire

9 year old Natasha Kamneva

Natasha Kamneva almost drowned while saving a child from the water.

10-year-old Misha Yarmonov

Saved a drowning boy.

Astan Dzodziev

Pulled my brother out of the burning house

medals Russian Union rescuers "For courage in rescue" young Yakutians were awarded Vadim Zabolotsky and Denis Ivanov , 14-year-old students of the 8th grade

Cherepovets eighth-grader Alina Ignatova

Saved a drowning 3 year old boy .

15-year-old Alexander Alekhin

Alexander Alekhin

from Trans-Baikal Territory who saved two drowning children

Zhenya Tabakov

Saved my sister from a rapist .

The youngest citizen of Russia, who became a holder of the Order of Courage.

Tabakov's wife was only seven when his brave heart stopped …

What do you think: could you do

in place of these guys-heroes?

They say that a hero is someone who, by coincidence, was at the right time in right place. But, you see, there were probably other people in that very place. However, not everyone was ready to rush to the aid of a person in trouble. These guys rushed - some into the fire, some into the water. However, ask any of them, all as one will say: "What kind of hero am I?! An ordinary boy (girl), like everyone else ..."

Many of us have a sense of compassion, pity, mercy. But not everyone, risking their own lives, will come to the aid of a person in trouble.

All of them are different, young heroes-rescuers, but all of them are united by such qualities as: courage, determination, indifference to someone else's misfortune. Time will tell how their life will turn out, who they will become in the future. But we can say with confidence that they will be real people.

Before the war, they were the most ordinary boys and girls. They studied, helped the elders, played, bred pigeons, sometimes even took part in fights. But the time has come severe trials and they proved how huge an ordinary little child's heart can become when a sacred love for the Motherland, pain for the fate of its people and hatred of enemies flares up in it. And no one expected that it was these boys and girls who were able to accomplish a great feat for the glory of the freedom and independence of their Motherland!

Children who remained in the destroyed cities and villages became homeless, doomed to starvation. It was terrible and difficult to stay in the territory occupied by the enemy. Children could be sent to a concentration camp, taken to work in Germany, turned into slaves, made donors for German soldiers etc.

Here are the names of some of them: Volodya Kazmin, Yura Zhdanko, Lenya Golikov, Marat Kazei, Lara Mikheenko, Valya Kotik, Tanya Morozova, Vitya Korobkov, Zina Portnova. Many of them fought so hard that they deserved military orders and medals, and four: Marat Kazei, Valya Kotik, Zina Portnova, Lenya Golikov, became Heroes of the Soviet Union.

From the first days of the occupation, the boys and girls began to act at their own peril and risk, which was really deadly.

"Fedya Samodurov. Fedya is 14 years old, he is a graduate of the motorized rifle unit, commanded by the guard captain A. Chernavin. Fedya was picked up in his homeland, in the ruined village of the Voronezh region. Together with a unit, he took part in the battles for Ternopil, with a machine-gun crew he kicked the Germans out of the city. When almost the entire crew died, the teenager, together with the surviving soldier, took up the machine gun, firing long and hard, and detained the enemy. Fedya was awarded the medal "For Courage".

Vanya Kozlov, 13 years old,he was left without relatives and has been in a motorized rifle unit for the second year. At the front, he delivers food, newspapers and letters to soldiers in the most difficult conditions.

Petya Zub. Petya Zub chose a no less difficult specialty. He had long ago decided to become a scout. His parents were killed, and he knows how to pay off the accursed German. Together with experienced scouts, he gets to the enemy, reports his location on the radio, and artillery fires at their orders, crushing the Nazis. "(Arguments and Facts, No. 25, 2010, p. 42).

A sixteen year old schoolgirl Olya Demes with her younger sister Lidoy at the Orsha station in Belarus, on the instructions of the commander of the partisan brigade S. Zhulin, tanks with fuel were blown up using magnetic mines. Of course, the girls attracted much less attention of the German guards and policemen than teenage boys or adult men. But after all, it was just right for the girls to play with dolls, and they fought with Wehrmacht soldiers!

Thirteen-year-old Lida often took a basket or a bag and went to the railway tracks to collect coal, obtaining intelligence about German military trains. If she was stopped by sentries, she explained that she was collecting coal to heat the room in which the Germans lived. The Nazis seized and shot Olya's mother and younger sister Lida, and Olya continued to fearlessly carry out the tasks of the partisans.

For the head of the young partisan Olya Demes, the Nazis promised a generous reward - land, a cow and 10,000 marks. Copies of her photograph were distributed and sent to all patrol services, policemen, elders and secret agents. Capture and deliver her alive - that was the order! But the girl could not be caught. Olga destroyed 20 German soldiers and officers, derailed 7 enemy echelons, conducted reconnaissance, participated in " rail war", in the destruction of German punitive units.

Children of the Great Patriotic War

What happened to the children during this terrible time? During the war?

The guys worked for days at factories, factories and industries, standing behind the machines instead of the brothers and fathers who had gone to the front. Children also worked at defense enterprises: they made fuses for mines, fuses for hand grenades, smoke bombs, colored flares, collected gas masks. Worked in agriculture, grew vegetables for hospitals.

In the school sewing workshops, the pioneers sewed underwear and tunics for the army. Girls knitted warm clothes for the front: mittens, socks, scarves, sewed pouches for tobacco. The guys helped the wounded in hospitals, wrote letters to their relatives under their dictation, put on performances for the wounded, arranged concerts, evoking a smile from war-torn adult men.

A number of objective reasons: the departure of teachers to the army, the evacuation of the population from the western regions to the eastern ones, the inclusion of students in labor activity in connection with the departure of the breadwinners of the family to the war, the transfer of many schools to hospitals, etc., prevented the deployment in the USSR during the war of a universal seven-year compulsory education, which began in the 30s. In the remaining educational institutions training was conducted in two or three, and sometimes four shifts.

At the same time, the children themselves were forced to store firewood for boiler houses. There were no textbooks, and because of the lack of paper, they wrote on old newspapers between the lines. Nevertheless, new schools were opened and additional classes were created. Boarding schools were created for evacuated children. For those young people who left school at the beginning of the war and were employed in industry or agriculture, schools for working and rural youth were organized in 1943.

In the annals of the Great Patriotic War, there are still many little-known pages, for example, the fate of kindergartens. "It turns out that in December 1941 in besieged Moscowkindergartens worked in bomb shelters. When the enemy was driven back, they resumed their work faster than many universities. By the autumn of 1942, 258 kindergartens had opened in Moscow!

From the memories of the military childhood of Lydia Ivanovna Kostyleva:

“After the death of my grandmother, I was assigned to Kindergarten, elder sister at school, mom at work. I went to kindergarten alone, by tram, when I was less than five years old. Once I became seriously ill with mumps, I was lying at home alone with high temperature, there were no medicines, in delirium I fancied a pig running under the table, but everything worked out.
I saw my mother in the evenings and on rare weekends. Children were brought up by the street, we were friendly and always hungry. FROM early spring they ran to the mosses, the benefit of the forest and swamps nearby, picked berries, mushrooms, and various early grass. The bombings gradually stopped, allied residences were placed in our Arkhangelsk, this brought a certain color to life - we, the children, sometimes got warm clothes, some food. Basically, we ate black shangi, potatoes, seal meat, fish and fish oil, on holidays - seaweed marmalade, tinted with beets.

More than five hundred teachers and nannies in the fall of 1941 were digging trenches on the outskirts of the capital. Hundreds worked in logging. The teachers, who only yesterday led a round dance with the children, fought in the Moscow militia. Natasha Yanovskaya, a kindergarten teacher in the Bauman district, heroically died near Mozhaisk. The teachers who remained with the children did not perform feats. They just saved the kids, whose fathers fought, and their mothers stood at the machines.

Most of the kindergartens during the war became boarding schools, the children were there day and night. And in order to feed the children in a half-starved time, to protect them from the cold, to give them at least a modicum of comfort, to keep them occupied for the benefit of the mind and soul - for such work were necessary great love to children, deep decency and boundless patience". (D. Shevarov "World of News", No. 27, 2010, p. 27).

Children's games have changed, "... new game- to the hospital. The hospital has been played before, but not like this. Now the wounded for them - real people. But they play war less often, because no one wants to be a fascist. This role is played by trees. They shoot snowballs at them. We learned to help the injured - the fallen, the bruised."

From a letter from a boy to a front-line soldier: “We also often played war before, but now much less often - we are tired of the war, it would sooner end so that we could live well again ...” (Ibid.).

In connection with the death of parents, many homeless children appeared in the country. The Soviet state, despite the difficult war time, nevertheless fulfilled its obligations to children left without parents. To combat neglect, a network of children's reception centers and orphanages was organized and opened, and employment for adolescents was organized.

Many families of Soviet citizens began to take in orphans to raisewhere they found new parents. Unfortunately, not all educators and heads of children's institutions were distinguished by honesty and decency. Here are some examples.

"In the autumn of 1942, in the Pochinkovsky district of the Gorky region, children dressed in rags were caught stealing potatoes and grain from collective farm fields. It turned out that the pupils of the district orphanage. And they did it not from a good life. During further investigation, local police officers uncovered a criminal group, and, in fact, a gang consisting of employees of this institution.

In total, seven people were arrested in the case, including the director of the orphanage Novoseltsev, the accountant Sdobnov, the storekeeper Mukhina and others. During the searches, 14 children's coats, seven suits, 30 meters of cloth, 350 meters of manufactory and other misappropriated property, allocated by the state with great difficulty during this harsh wartime, were seized from them.

The investigation found that by not giving the due norm of bread and products, these criminals only during 1942 stole seven tons of bread, half a ton of meat, 380 kg of sugar, 180 kg of biscuits, 106 kg of fish, 121 kg of honey, etc. The orphanage workers sold all these scarce products in the market or simply ate them up themselves.

Only one comrade Novoseltsev received fifteen portions of breakfasts and lunches daily for himself and his family members. At the expense of the pupils, the rest of the staff also ate well. Children were fed "dishes" made from rot and vegetables, referring to the poor supply.

For the whole of 1942, they were only given one candy each for the 25th anniversary October revolution... And what is most surprising, the director of the orphanage Novoseltsev in the same 1942 received from the People's Commissariat of Education certificate of honor for excellent educational work. All these fascists were deservedly sentenced to long terms of imprisonment."

At such a time, the whole essence of a person is manifested .. Every day to face a choice - how to act .. And the war showed us examples of great mercy, great heroism and great cruelty, great meanness .. We must remember this !! For the sake of the future!!

And no time can heal the wounds of the war, especially those of children. “These years that were once, the bitterness of childhood does not allow to forget ...”

They say that there were too many tragic events in the outgoing year, and there is almost nothing good to remember on the eve of the New Year. Tsargrad decided to argue with this statement and collected a selection of our most prominent compatriots (and not only) and their heroic deeds. Unfortunately, many of them accomplished a feat at the cost of their own lives, but the memory of them and their deeds will support us for a long time and serve as an example to follow. Ten names that thundered in 2016 and should not be forgotten.

Alexander Prokhorenko

A special forces officer, 25-year-old Lieutenant Prokhorenko, died in March near Palmyra while performing strike missions. Russian aviation on ISIS fighters. He was discovered by terrorists and, being surrounded, did not want to give up and caused fire on himself. He was awarded the title of Hero of Russia posthumously, and a street in Orenburg was named after him. The feat of Prokhorenko caused admiration not only in Russia. Two French families donated awards, including the Legion of Honor.

Farewell ceremony for the hero of Russia, senior lieutenant Alexander Prokhorenko, who died in Syria, in the village of Gorodki, Tulgansky district. Sergei Medvedev/TASS

In Orenburg, where the officer comes from, he left a young wife, who, after the death of Alexander, had to be hospitalized in order to save the life of their child. In August, her daughter Violetta was born.

Magomed Nurbagandov

A policeman from Dagestan, Magomet Nurbagandov, and his brother Abdurashid were killed in July, but the details became known only in September, when a video recording of the execution of police officers was found on the phone of one of the liquidated militants of the Izberbash criminal group. On that ill-fated day, the brothers and their schoolchildren rested in nature in tents, no one expected the attacks of bandits. Abdurashid was killed immediately because he stood up for one of the boys, whom the bandits began to insult. Mohammed was tortured before his death, because his documents of an employee were found law enforcement. The purpose of the bullying was to force Nurbagandov to renounce his colleagues on record, acknowledge the strength of the militants and call on the Dagestanis to leave the police. In response to this, Nurbagandov addressed his colleagues with the words "Work, brothers!" The enraged militants could only kill him. President Vladimir Putin met with the brothers' parents, thanked them for their son's courage and awarded him the title of Hero of Russia posthumously. The last phrase of Mahomet became the main slogan of the outgoing year and, one might assume, for years to come. Two small children were left without a father. Nurbagandov's son now says that he will only become a policeman.

Elizabeth Glinka

Photo: Mikhail Metzel/TASS

The resuscitator and philanthropist, popularly known as Doctor Lisa, has done a lot this year. In May, she took the children out of the Donbass. 22 sick children were rescued, the youngest of whom was only 5 days old. These were children with heart disease, oncology, and congenital diseases. For children from Donbass and Syria, special treatment and support programs have been created. In Syria, Elizaveta Glinka also helped sick children and organized the delivery of medicines and humanitarian aid in the hospital. During the delivery of another humanitarian cargo, Dr. Liza died in a Tu-154 plane crash over the Black Sea. Despite the tragedy, all programs will continue. Today for the guys from Lugansk and Donetsk there will be a New Year's tree...

Oleg Fedyura

Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Primorsky Territory, Colonel of the Internal Service Oleg Fedyura. Press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Primorsky Krai / TASS

Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Primorsky Territory, who proved himself during natural Disasters in the region. The rescuer personally visited all the flooded cities and villages, led search and rescue operations, helped evacuate people, and he himself did not sit idly by - he has hundreds of such events on his account. On September 2, together with his brigade, he was heading to another village, in which 400 houses were flooded and more than 1,000 people were waiting for help. Crossing the river, KAMAZ, in which Fedyura and 8 other people were, collapsed into the water. Oleg Fedyura saved all the personnel, but then he could not get out of the flooded car and died.

Love Pechko

The entire Russian world learned the name of the 91-year-old female veteran from the news on May 9th. During the festive procession in honor of Victory Day in Slavyansk, occupied by Ukrainians, the Ukrainian Nazis threw eggs at a column of veterans, doused with brilliant green and sprinkled with flour, but the spirit of the old warriors could not be broken, no one was out of order. The Nazis shouted insults, in the occupied Slavyansk, where any Russian and Soviet symbols are prohibited, the situation was extremely explosive and could turn into a massacre at any moment. However, the veterans, despite the threat to their lives, were not afraid to openly put on medals and St. George ribbons, after all, they did not go through the war with the Nazis in order to be afraid of their ideological followers. Lyubov Pechko, who took part in the liberation of Belarus during the Great Patriotic War, was splashed with brilliant green in the face. The pictures, in which traces of brilliant green are wiped from the face of Lyubov Pechko, circled social networks and the media. From the resulting shock, the sister of an elderly woman, who saw the abuse of veterans on TV, died and had a heart attack.

Danil Maksudov

In January of this year, during a strong snow storm, a dangerous traffic jam formed on the Orenburg-Orsk highway, in which hundreds of people were blocked. Ordinary employees of various services showed heroism, leading people out of ice captivity, sometimes endangering own life. Russia remembered the name of police officer Danil Maksudov, who was hospitalized with severe frostbite after giving his jacket, hat and gloves to those who needed it most. After that, Danil helped to get people out of the traffic jam for several more hours in a blizzard. Then Maksudov himself ended up in the emergency traumatology department with frostbite on his hands, it was about the amputation of his fingers. However, in the end, the policeman went on the mend.

Konstantin Parikozha

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Orenburg Airlines Boeing 777-200 crew commander Konstantin Parikozha, who was awarded the Order of Courage, during the award ceremony state awards in the Kremlin. Mikhail Metzel/TASS

A native of Tomsk, the 38-year-old pilot managed to land a liner with a burning engine, in which there were 350 passengers, including many families with children and 20 crew members. The plane was flying from the Dominican Republic, at an altitude of 6 thousand meters there was a bang and the cabin was shrouded in smoke, panic began. During landing, the landing gear caught fire. However, thanks to the skill of the pilot, the Boeing 777 was successfully landed and none of the passengers were injured. Parikozha received the Order of Courage from the hands of the President.

Andrey Logvinov

The 44-year-old crew commander of the Il-18, which crashed in Yakutia, managed to land the plane without wings. They tried to land the plane to the last and in the end they managed to avoid casualties, although both wings of the plane broke off on impact with the ground and the fuselage collapsed. The pilots themselves received multiple fractures, but despite this, according to the rescuers, they refused help and asked to be the last to be evacuated to the hospital. "He managed the impossible," they said about the skill of Andrei Logvinov.

Georgy Gladysh

On a February morning the abbot Orthodox church in Krivoy Rog, Priest George, as usual, rode home from work on a bicycle. Suddenly, he heard cries for help from a nearby body of water. It turned out that the fisherman fell through the ice. Batiushka ran to the water, threw off his clothes and, overshadowing himself sign of the cross rushed to help. The noise attracted the attention of local residents, who called an ambulance and helped pull the already unconscious retired fisherman out of the water. The priest himself refused honors: " I didn't save. It was God who decided for me. If I had been driving a car instead of a bicycle, I simply would not have heard the cries for help. If I started to think whether to help me a person or not, I would not have time. If the people on the shore had not thrown a rope at us, we would have drowned together. And so everything happened by itself". After the feat, he went on to perform church services.

Julia Kolosova

Russia. Moscow. December 2, 2016. Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of the Russian Federation Anna Kuznetsova (left) and Yulia Kolosova, winner in the category "Children Heroes", at the awards ceremony for the VIII winners All-Russian festival on the subject of safety and salvation of people "Constellation of Courage". Mikhail Pochuev/TASS

Valdai schoolgirl, despite the fact that she herself is only 12 years old, she was not afraid to enter a burning private house, hearing the screams of children. Julia took two boys out of the house, and already on the street they told her that one more of their little brothers was left inside. The girl returned to the house and carried a 7-year-old baby in her arms, who was crying and was afraid to go down the stairs shrouded in smoke. In the end, none of the children were hurt. " It seems to me that in my place, any teenager would do this, but not every adult, because adults are much more indifferent than children", - the girl believes. Caring residents of Staraya Russa collected money and gave the girl a computer and a souvenir - a mug with her photograph. The schoolgirl herself admits that she did not help for the sake of gifts and praise, but she, of course, was pleased, because she is from a poor family - Yulia's mother is a seller, and her father works at a factory.

Every day in Russia, ordinary citizens perform feats who do not pass by when someone needs help. The country should know its heroes, so this collection is dedicated to brave, caring people who have proven by deed 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 had fallen from a fourth-floor balcony.

“I was returning from the sports ground, where I was training with the children. I look, some kind of pandemonium, ”recalls Startsev. - People under the balcony were fussing, shouting something, waving their arms. I raise my head up, and there a little girl, with the last of her strength, grabs the outer edge of the balcony. Here, according to Vladimir, he turned on the climber's syndrome. Moreover, the athlete has been engaged in sambo and rock climbing for many years. Physical form allowed. He assessed the situation and intended to climb the wall to the fourth floor.
“Already prepared to jump to the balcony of the first floor, I raise my eyes, and the child flies down! I instantly regrouped and relaxed my muscles to catch her. This is how we were taught in training, - says Vladimir Startsev. “She landed right in my arms, she cried, of course, she got scared.”

2. It happened on August 15th. On that day, my sister and nephews and I came to the river to swim. Everything was good - heat, sun, water. Then my sister says to me: “Lyosha, look, the man drowned, out, swims by. 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, the cobblestones, while running, fell several times, but got up and continued to run, barely overtook.


The child turned out to be the victim. On the face all the signs of a drowned man - an unnaturally swollen stomach, a bluish-black body, veins swelled. I didn't even know if it was a boy or a girl. He pulled the child ashore, began to pour water out of him. The stomach, the lungs - everything was filled with water, the tongue kept sinking. Asked for a towel next door standing people. No one filed, they disdained, they were frightened by the sight of the girl, they took pity on her for their beautiful towels. And I'm wearing nothing but swimming trunks. Because of the fast run, 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 baby to her on the shore. The child who swallowed water became incredibly heavy. The peasants responded to the request to carry the girl to the other side. There, Olga and I continued all resuscitation actions. They drained the water as best they could, did a heart massage, artificial respiration, for 15-20 minutes there was no reaction, neither from the girl, nor from nearby onlookers. I asked for 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. From despair, Olga even began to cry, it seemed that there was no hope anymore. Everyone around said, leave these useless attempts, you will break all her ribs, why are you mocking the dead. But then the girl sighed, the nurse who came running heard the sounds of a heartbeat.

3. A third-grader rescued three young children from a burning hut. For the heroism shown, 11-year-old Dima Filyushin was almost flogged at home.


... On the day when a fire broke out on the outskirts of the village, the 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 a flame in the neighbor's windows. The boy looked inside - the curtains were ablaze, and next to him, on the bed, three-year-old Vasya was sleeping. Of course, the student could call the rescue service, but without hesitation, he rushed to save the kids himself.

4. Young 17 summer girl from Zarechny, Marina Safarova, became a real hero. The girl pulled the fishermen, her brother and the snowmobile out of the hole with a sheet.


Before the onset of spring, young people decided to visit the Sursky reservoir for the last time, in the Penza region, and after that “tie up” until next year, since the ice is no longer as reliable as it was 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 get warm in the car, and at the same time warm up the engine.

Under the weight of motor vehicles, the ice could not stand it and broke through in the places where the holes were drilled, as after a perforator. People began to sink, the snowmobile hung on the edge of the ice by the ski, the whole structure threatened to break off completely, then people would have very little chance of salvation. The men clung with their last strength to the edge of the hole, however warm clothes instantly got wet and literally pulled to the bottom. In this situation, Marina did not think about the possible danger and rushed to the rescue.
Having seized her brother, the girl, however, could not help him in any way, since the balance of 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 town for help?
So bye time will pass people can simply drown from hypothermia. Thinking like this, Marina intuitively ran to the car. Opening the trunk in search of an item that could help in the situation, the girl drew attention to the bag of bed linen, which she took from the laundry. - The first thing that came to mind was to twist the rope from the sheets, tie it to the car and try to pull them out. - Marina remembers
The pile of laundry was enough for almost 30 meters, it could have been longer, but the girl tied an impromptu cable with a double calculation.
- I've never braided so fast, - the rescuer laughs, - I twisted thirty meters in three minutes, this is a record. The remaining distance to the people, the girl ventured to drive on the ice.
- It is still very strong near the shore, I moved out onto the ice and quietly went backwards. The door opened just in case and drove off. The cable from the sheets turned out to be so strong that in the end, not only people, but also a snowmobile were taken out of the hole. After the rescue operation was completed, the men took off their clothes and climbed into the car.
- I don’t even have rights yet, I handed it over, but I’ll get it only in a month, when I turn 18 years old. While I was taking them home, I was worried, suddenly traffic cops would come across, and I would be without a license, although in theory they would have let me go, or helped to deliver everyone home.

5. little hero Buryatia - this is how 5-year-old Danila Zaitsev was christened in the republic. This kid saved his older sister Valya from death. When the girl fell into the hole, 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 by the hood with his teeth and did not let go until a neighbor, 15-year-old Ivan Zhamyanov, came to the rescue. The teenager was able to pull Valya out of the water and in his arms carried the exhausted and frozen girl to his home. There, the child was wrapped in a blanket and given hot tea to drink.

After learning about this story, the leadership local school appealed 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. Having run up to the scene, he saw a sinking car and without thinking twice jumped into the icy water and began to pull out the victims.


“At the scene of the accident, I saw a confused driver and passengers of the VAZ, who in the dark could not understand where the car they had crashed into had gone. Then I followed the tracks of the wheels down and found the Audi in the river with the wheels up. I immediately entered the water and began to pull people out of the car. First I got the driver and passenger who was sitting in the front seat, and then the two passengers from the back seat. They were already unconscious at the time."
Unfortunately, one of the people rescued by Rinat did not survive - the 34-year-old Audi passenger died of hypothermia. Other victims were hospitalized and this moment already written out. Rinat himself works as a driver and does not see much heroism in his act at all. “The traffic cops told me at the scene of the accident that they would decide on my promotion. But from the very beginning I did not seek publicity and receive any awards, most importantly, I managed to save people, ”he said.

7. A Saratovitian who pulled two little boys out of the water: “I thought I couldn’t swim. But as soon as 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, wasting no 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 caught on something - diving again, he found Misha. Grabbing him by the hair, the man pulled the boy ashore, where he gave him artificial respiration. A few minutes later, Misha regained consciousness. A little later, Ilya and Misha were taken to the Ozinsky Central Hospital.
“I always thought to myself that I don’t know how to swim, only 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 help.
Rescuing the boys, Vadim hit the rebar lying in the water and injured his leg. He later received several stitches in the hospital.

8. Schoolchildren from Krasnodar Territory Roman Vitkov and Mikhail Serdyuk rescued an elderly woman from a burning house.


On their way home, they saw a burning building. Having run into the yard, the schoolchildren saw that the veranda was almost completely engulfed in fire. Roman and Mikhail rushed to the shed for the tool. Grabbing a sledgehammer and an ax, knocking out a window, Roman climbed into the window opening. An elderly woman slept in a smoky room. It was possible to take out the victim only after breaking the door.

9. And in the Chelyabinsk region, the priest Alexei Peregudov saved the life of the groom at the wedding.


During the wedding, the groom lost consciousness. The only one who did not lose his head in this situation was Priest Alexei Peregudov. He quickly examined the patient, suspected cardiac arrest and provided first aid, including chest compressions. As a result, the sacrament was successfully completed. Father Aleksey noted that he had only seen chest compressions in movies.

10. A veteran distinguished himself in Mordovia Chechen war Marat Zinatullin, who rescued an elderly man from a burning apartment.


Having witnessed the fire, Marat acted like a professional firefighter. He climbed along the fence to a small barn, and from it he 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 lay on the floor. The pensioner, who was poisoned by smoke, could not leave the apartment on his own. Marat, opening the front door from the inside, carried the owner of the house to the entrance.

11. Roman Sorvachev, an employee of the Kostroma colony, saved the lives of his neighbors in a fire.


Entering the entrance of his house, he immediately figured out the apartment from which the smell of smoke comes. The door was opened by a drunken man, who assured that everything was in order. 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 the EMERCOM officer did not allow them to get into 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 the heavily smoky apartment.

12. A resident of the village of Yurmash (Bashkortostan) Rafit Shamsutdinov saved two children from a fire.


Rafita, a fellow villager, lit the stove and, leaving two children - a three-year-old girl and one and a half year old son, went away with older children to school. The smoke from the burning house was noticed by Rafit Shamsutdinov. Despite the abundance of smoke, he managed to get into the burning room and carry the children out.

13. Dagestan Arsen Fittsulaev prevented a disaster at a gas station in Kaspiysk. Later, Arsen realized that he actually risked his life.


An explosion suddenly thundered 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 a valve. A minute of delay, and the fire would have spread to nearby tanks with combustible fuel. In such a scenario, casualties would not have been avoided. However, the situation was radically changed by a modest gas station worker, who skillfully averted the disaster and reduced its scale to a burned-out car and several damaged cars.

14. And in the village of Ilyinka-1 Tula region schoolchildren Andrey Ibronov, Nikita Sabitov, Andrey Navruz, Vladislav Kozyrev and Artem Voronin pulled the pensioner out of the well.


78-year-old Valentina Nikitina fell into a well and could not get out on her own. Andrey Ibronov and Nikita Sabitov heard cries for help and immediately rushed to save the elderly woman. However, three more guys had to be called to help - Andrei Navruz, Vladislav Kozyrev and Artem Voronin. Together, the guys managed to pull an elderly pensioner out of the well. “I tried to get out, the well is not deep - I even reached the edge with my hand. But it was so slippery and cold that I could not grab onto the hoop. And when I raised my hands, ice water was poured into the sleeves. I screamed, called for help, but the well is far from residential buildings and roads, so no one heard me. How long this went on, I don’t even know ... Soon I began to feel sleepy, I raised my head with the last of my strength 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 district, accomplished his feat, he was only seven. Once, while playing with friends on the street, a first grader heard a child crying from the trench. In the village, gas was supplied: the dug pits were flooded 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 had a sunken tongue and stopped breathing. The father, realizing that the count goes on for seconds, took a kitchen knife, made an incision in his son's throat and inserted a tube into it, which he made from a pen.

17. She closed her 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 their friends and relatives at this time in their homes. Zalina Arsanova and her younger brother were leaving the entrance when shots rang out. An attempt was made on the life of one of the FSB officers in a neighboring courtyard. When the first bullet pierced the facade of the nearest house, the girl realized that it was shooting, and her younger brother was in the line of fire, and covered him with herself. The girl with a gunshot wound was taken to the Malgobek Clinical Hospital No. 1, where she underwent an operation. Internal organs Surgeons had to assemble 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.


Still: the guys tied up an armed raider who was trying to rob a grocery kiosk.

19. A young man from Kabardino-Balkaria saved a child from a fire.


In the village of Shitkhala, Urvan district of the KBR, a residential building caught fire. Even before the arrival of firefighters, the whole district came running to the house. No one dared to enter the burning room. Twenty-year-old Beslan Taov, having learned that a child was 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 Tamerlane was unconscious, in a few minutes he could not be saved. Thanks to the heroism of Beslan, the child survived.

20. A resident of St. Petersburg did not allow the girl to die.


A resident of St. Petersburg, Igor Sivtsov, was driving a car and saw a drowning man in the waters of the Neva. Igor immediately called the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and then made an attempt to save the drowning girl on his own.
Bypassing a traffic jam, he approached the parapet of the embankment as close as possible, where the drowning woman was carried by the current. As it turned out, the woman did not want to be rescued, she tried to commit suicide 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 to warm up until the ambulance arrived.

It has already become a bad tradition for us to scold the youth: they are dissolute, cynical, not interested in literature and art, raise money to a cult, etc. But sometimes these same dissolute and cynical children teach us adults such lessons of humanity, courage, for which , perhaps, the majority of properly brought up men and women are not capable. Remember the 8-year-old schoolgirl Sasha Ershova, who is in Transvaal Park, covered in cuts, waist-deep in cold water, held in her arms for several hours a 3-year-old baby, a girl completely alien to her, so that she could survive under concrete debris? And what about Murat Kalmanov, who saved his classmates and other children in the burning Beslan school? There are many such examples. Who are these children who, unknowingly, commit today heroic deeds? Why do they think about others and not about themselves in such situations? Is it necessary to educate in a child the desire for heroism? And is it necessary to educate other children on the examples of the little heroes of our time? AiF tried to figure this out together with our experts.

Golden heart Olya Kozlova

ON THE CEREMONIAL school line September 1 13-year-old schoolgirl from Petrovsk Saratov region could have driven a brand new Renault, the car she received as a reward for rescuing two babies from the fire.

MOMMA, help! It's so hot in here! - from behind the locked doors of a small dilapidated house on the outskirts of Petrovsk, a plaintive childish cry was heard. The fire started suddenly, in a matter of minutes the fire engulfed almost the entire building.

One of the neighbor's guys rushed to the phone - to call the firemen. And at the building in flames began to gather locals. The adults were talking and only shrugged their hands in impotence - no one even tried to get inside. Although everyone knew very well: there, in the fire, now children are burning alive.

Come on you! Again, the Ilyasov children were abandoned! one of the residents of Petrovsk shouted indignantly. - God forbid, the kids will be saved ... And where did these firefighters disappear to?

And the fire flared up, black smoke poured from all the cracks. Soon the cries for help subsided, from the depths of the room came a child's cough, hoarse from the caustic burning, and the strangled cry of a baby.

Spa-si-te! - three-year-old Masha whispered with her last strength, banging her fist on the glass. A minute later, her head disappeared into the window opening. Someone in the crowd of onlookers wailed: "The child has lost consciousness! It is necessary to save! Help!" But no one rushed into the fire, cowardly reasoning: "It's a pity guys, but I don't want to burn alive, saving other people's children. I still have to raise my own!"

live babies

MEANWHILE, people continued to come running to 76 Pugacheva Street. A group of sixth-graders from the local school also came - the girls met the neighboring boys, and they shouted: "Let's run faster, the house is on fire!"

13-year-old Olya Kozlova, in those moments that she ran with her friends to the burning house, did not think whether it was worth it or not to risk her life for the sake of others. She just did what she felt she needed to do.

- I knew that the adults ran after the firemen. That it’s even scary to approach this house - flames, smoke, fumes are everywhere, - Olya recalls the events of that March day. - But suddenly, from somewhere inside, children's cries were heard. I didn't think about anything else. I just wanted to help them no matter what. Immediately rushed to front door but she was locked up. Then I closed my eyes and broke the glass in the window frame with my elbow. She climbed inside and almost suffocated.

Swallowing air in small sips, the desperate girl rushed to the baby crawling on the floor. Olya did not immediately notice the little boy lying on the smoking floor, it seemed to her that it was just a pile of some kind of clothes. I got closer and saw that it was a little boy.

- I grabbed the girl - she grabbed me with her little hands - and leaned out the window. I handed Masha to adults, I thought they would help. But no one ever came up. I had to put a barefoot three-year-old baby right on the snow. In the same way, she pulled the boy out into the street,- says Olya.

Not a mother, but...

On THAT day, March 11, there were three children in the ill-fated house. Unfortunately, the youngest could not be saved. When Olya, herself almost losing consciousness from the smoke, “dived” into the depths of the house, a fire suddenly flared up sharply. The path to the far corner of the room, where there was a crib with a baby, was cut off. The young schoolgirl, miraculously not suffocating, barely found the strength to get out. Having fallen on the snow, she lay there until the arrival of firefighters. And the neighbors only lamented in different voices ...

According to firefighters, Olga was just lucky. As Roman Dmitriev, deputy head of the Gospozhnadzora of the Petrovsky district, told the correspondent of AiF-Saratov, the girl showed amazing heroism. But she survived by a lucky chance.

- One of our employees, dressed in special equipment, got to the stroller, in which the seven-month-old baby was lying, only crawling, - says R. Dmitriev. - Due to the fact that the ceiling was finished with plastic, the room was instantly filled with acrid, poisonous smoke. Therefore, the little one could not be saved.

After the tragedy, all the materials about the incident were handed over for verification to the Petrovsky Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office. It turned out that it was not the first time that the victims of the fire had left their children unattended. According to the neighbors, long absences were the norm for them. So this time, having gone to the store for milk formula, the 30-year-old mother went on a spree.

- Negligent mother brought to criminal responsibility. A criminal case was opened against her under article 156 "Failure to fulfill the obligations of raising a minor." The court sentenced her to 120 hours of compulsory work, - comments assistant prosecutor Sergei Laushkin.

Thanks from Sophia Loren

Everyone in PETROVSK knows about the feat of the young Olya Kozlova. At the end of the summer, she was awarded the medal "For Courage in a Fire". True, she wore this award only once - at the presentation. At the beginning of summer, Olya received a precious statuette - the international award "Golden Heart" - from the hands of the Italian star Sophia Loren and the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Sergei Shoigu. At the same time, the Kozlov family was awarded a certificate for a car.

By the beginning of September, the brand new Renault was already standing under the windows of their house. Olya, now a seventh-grader, dreams of the beginning of the autumn holidays in order to travel around the country by car - after a trip to Moscow, she realized that she loves traveling very much.

The children did not think about themselves

ON THE EVE OF new year holidays late in the evening, two robbers climbed into the house of test pilot of the Taganrog aircraft plant S. Zarubin. The whole family - the husband, his wife and 16-year-old son - had already gone to bed.

The first killers shot the head of the family, who ran out of the bedroom to the noise. Then his wife died. The robber decided to strangle the boy. After some time, thinking that he was dead, the criminal left the room. But Seryozha miraculously survived. Waking up, he managed to quietly make his way to the exit and slip out of the house, having previously blocked the door. The killers were trapped.

Jumping from a height of seven meters, the robbers fell on a pile of gravel and injured their legs. Somehow they got to the car waiting for them and took to their heels. And they didn’t know that the teenager, whom they almost killed just half a year ago, managed to run to the police post and tell about everything that had happened. The city was on alert. At the traffic police post on the outskirts of the city, the guards stopped to check the taxi. One of the passengers got off, visibly limping. The man was arrested and turned out to be one of the killers. The next day, the second was arrested.

WHEN the first fire department arrived on a call to the village of Setovka Altai Territory The worst was already behind us. The eldest son of the owners of the house - 17-year-old Sergey Shkurin - managed to rescue five younger sisters and brothers from the fiery captivity.

With burns of the 1st and 3rd degree on 40% of his body, Sergei spent a week in the intensive care unit of the district hospital, after which he was transferred to the regional burn center. The head of the district, Vasily Weber, promised "respected Sergei Igorevich" to take care of the medal. In the meantime, he handed the guy thank you letter and a prize - 5000 rubles.

IN AUGUST of this year Kirov region during the rest of the children from the pioneer camp on the lake, 13-year-old Petya Yegorov, in front of adult counselors, saved a drowning 8-year-old girl. He drowned himself, no one rescued him.

17-YEAR-OLD Robert Gagiev was walking with friends on the embankment of Vladikavkaz. Seeing a drowning girl in the river, he rushed into the water and pushed her to the shore. Friends pulled him to land, but the doctors could not save the guy.

3 years later

MURAT KALMANOV, a graduate of the notorious Beslan School No. 1, in those tragic September days three years ago, helped more than one child survive by pulling them out of a burning gym. Today he continues to fight - already for himself.

A year before the tragedy, Murat transferred from the Suvorov School to Beslan to be with his seriously ill mother. His dad died in the line of duty during an attack on a customs post about 10 years ago. A few months before the militants took over the school, my mother died. Once captured by the bandits, Murat behaved like a real man. He himself suffered very badly: the injuries almost deprived him of his sight and hearing, his hands began to fail. But after school, he dreamed of entering a military school, he was sure that his vocation was to save people. Perhaps that is why he believed that he did nothing heroic in those terrible days. And the order that he was awarded on behalf of International Association children's funds - too big a reward.

Murat did not enter the military school. Although he did the incredible: he developed his hands with hard work, underwent several operations to restore vision and hearing. Today he is a student of the law faculty of the North Ossetian state university. His goal is to help people.

"We also wanted to make a feat"

OUR children are not to blame for the fact that among them there are so few who are capable of a sacrificial, selfless act. The epoch that formed them is to blame for this, the writer Anatoly PRISTAVKIN believes.

TALKING about sacrifice, about patriotism, one must first of all understand how these qualities are formed in children's souls. You can't do that with ideology alone. Remember the Great Patriotic war- Talalikhin, Matrosov, 28 Panfilov heroes ... It is unlikely that the company political officers could inspire them to a feat. I don’t really believe that the communists, who almost until the 1940s fought among themselves for power, would have managed to form a new generation of boys who saved Russia. And it was the boys who saved her - those who turned 14 in June 1941 ended the war. They were raised by the remnants Silver Age- parents, grandparents. The literature of Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bunin, films like "Seven Brave", "Children of Captain Grant" also played their role ...

The communists used the ideological groundwork that had been formed in Russia over the previous centuries. With the help of books and films about Shchors, Kotovsky, Chapaev, the Bolsheviks compiled the bible of their prophets. But these heroes taught us nobility, we empathized with them, we also wanted to accomplish a feat. We were desperately jealous of the guys who came to our orphanage from the front - the sons of the regiment, who wore medals on their chests. And most of all they were afraid that the war would end, and we would not have time to prove ourselves ...

Is it lost in modern society this romanticism? Partially yes. The perestroika that broke out in the late 80s brought other goals and values. As a result, some people were thrown to the sidelines of life, some - more active, young - tried to adapt to new conditions. In society, a boundary has been drawn between Chekhov's romantics, who suffer because the cherry orchard is cut down, and those who cut down this cherry orchard. Now the "people with an ax", the Lopakhins, have won. New era dictated new character traits: rationalism, an attempt to survive at any cost in any conditions.

And modern children are also trying to adapt to life. They are not to blame for anything - they just behave like adults behave. We hated the ideology of the communists, the current ideology - the ideology of money - is not at all softer than the communist one. These endless commercial breaks and dozens of TV shows not only distract the boys from Chekhov, Jules Verne, Jack London - they impose completely different ideals on them.

I once counted - almost six dozen different TV shows a day are typed on different channels! I sometimes get the impression that our television is run by a group of either idiots or terrorists. But in recent times- I noticed - on the weekend, at the most watchable time, our old films began to appear on the screen: " Elusive Avengers"," Seventeen Moments of Spring "," And the dawns here are quiet ... "," It was in Penkovo. it cannot disappear - humanity would degenerate if there were no people ready to sacrifice themselves for the sake of others.

Help our children grow up normal people only culture can. As in us, orphans, sprouts sprouted, planted by the remnants of the intelligentsia of the Silver Age, so these sprouts will hatch in modern children. Each of us is able, by his personal example, to resist the triumph of the cave ideology "survival of the fittest" and thus educate children. You just do your job and behave in such a way that the child, looking at you, understands: it is probably possible to live decently under the conditions of wild capitalism.