A message about the exploits of children in our time. Young heroes of our time
Before the war, these were the most ordinary boys and girls. They studied, helped their elders, played, raised pigeons, and sometimes even took part in fights. But the hour of difficult trials came and they proved how huge an ordinary small thing can become. child's heart, when sacred love for the Motherland, pain for the fate of his people and hatred of enemies flare up in him. And no one expected that it was these boys and girls who were capable of accomplishing a great feat for the glory of the freedom and independence of their Motherland!
Children left in destroyed cities and villages became homeless, doomed to starvation. It was scary and difficult to stay in enemy-occupied territory. 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 Soviet Union.
From the first days of the occupation, boys and girls began to act at their own risk, which was truly fatal.
"Fedya Samodurov. Fedya is 14 years old, he is a graduate of a motorized rifle unit, commanded by Guard Captain A. Chernavin. Fedya was picked up in his homeland, in a destroyed village Voronezh region. Together with the unit, he took part in the battles for Ternopil, with machine-gun crews he kicked the Germans out of the city. When almost the entire crew was killed, 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 two years now. At the front, he delivers food, newspapers and letters to soldiers in the most difficult conditions.
Petya Zub. Petya Zub chose an equally difficult specialty. He decided long ago to become a scout. His parents were killed, and he knows how to settle accounts with the damned German. Together with experienced scouts, he gets to the enemy, reports his location by radio, and the artillery, at their direction, fires, crushing the fascists." ("Arguments and Facts", No. 25, 2010, p. 42).
A sixteen year old schoolgirl Olya Demesh with her younger sister Lida At the Orsha station in Belarus, on the instructions of the commander of the partisan brigade S. Zhulin, fuel tanks were blown up using magnetic mines. Of course, girls attracted much less attention from German guards and policemen than teenage boys or adult men. But the girls were just right to play with dolls, and they fought with Wehrmacht soldiers!
Thirteen-year-old Lida often took a basket or bag and went to the railway tracks to collect coal, obtaining intelligence about German military trains. If the guards stopped her, she explained that she was collecting coal to heat the room in which the Germans lived. Olya’s mother and little sister Lida were captured and shot by the Nazis, and Olya continued to fearlessly carry out the partisans’ tasks.
The Nazis promised a generous reward for the head of the young partisan Olya Demesh - land, a cow and 10 thousand marks. Copies of her photograph were distributed and sent to all patrol officers, policemen, wardens and secret agents. Capture and deliver her alive - that was the order! But they failed to catch the girl. Olga destroyed 20 German soldiers and officers, derailed 7 enemy trains, conducted reconnaissance, participated in the “rail war”, and in the destruction of German punitive units.
Children of the Great Patriotic War
What happened to the children during this scary time? During the war?
The guys worked for days in factories, factories and factories, standing at the machines instead of 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 school sewing workshops, pioneers sewed underwear and tunics for the army. The girls knitted warm clothes for the front: mittens, socks, scarves, and sewed tobacco pouches. The guys helped the wounded in hospitals, wrote letters to their relatives under their dictation, staged performances for the wounded, organized concerts, bringing a smile to war-weary adult men.
Row objective reasons: the departure of teachers to the army, the evacuation of the population from the western regions to the eastern, the inclusion of students in labor activity in connection with the departure of family breadwinners for the war, the transfer of many schools to hospitals, etc., prevented the deployment of a universal seven-year school in the USSR during the war compulsory education, started in the 30s. In the remaining educational institutions training was carried out in two, three, and sometimes four shifts.
At the same time, the children were forced to store firewood for the boiler houses themselves. There were no textbooks, and due to a shortage 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 youth 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 chronicle of the Great Patriotic War there's still a lot left little-known pages, for example, the fate of kindergartens. “It turns out that in December 1941, in besieged MoscowKindergartens operated in bomb shelters. When the enemy was repulsed, they resumed their work faster than many universities. By the fall of 1942, 258 kindergartens had opened in Moscow!
From the memories of Lydia Ivanovna Kostyleva’s wartime childhood:
“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 got seriously ill with mumps, I was lying at home alone with high temperature, there was no medicine, in my delirium I imagined a piglet running under the table, but everything turned out okay.
I saw my mother in the evenings and on rare weekends. The children were raised on the street, we were friendly and always hungry. WITH early spring They ran to the mosses, since there were forests and swamps nearby, and picked berries, mushrooms, and various early grasses. The bombings gradually stopped, Allied residences were located in our Arkhangelsk, this brought a certain flavor to life - we, the children, sometimes received warm clothes and some food. Mostly we ate black shangi, potatoes, seal meat, fish and fish oil, and on holidays we ate “marmalade” made from algae, tinted with beets.”
More than five hundred teachers and nannies dug trenches on the outskirts of the capital in the fall of 1941. Hundreds worked in logging operations. The teachers, who just yesterday were dancing with the children in a round dance, fought in the Moscow militia. Natasha Yanovskaya, a kindergarten teacher in the Baumansky district, died heroically near Mozhaisk. The teachers who remained with the children did not perform any feats. They simply saved children whose fathers were fighting and whose mothers were at work.
Most kindergartens became boarding schools during the war; children were there day and night. And in order to feed children in half-starvation, protect them from the cold, give them at least a modicum of comfort, occupy them with benefit for the mind and soul - such work required great love for children, deep decency and boundless patience." (D. Shevarov " World of News", No. 27, 2010, p. 27).
Children's games have changed, "... a new game- to the hospital. 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. Trees perform this role for them. They shoot snowballs at them. We learned to provide assistance to victims - those who fell, were hurt."
From a boy’s letter to a front-line soldier: “We used to often play war, but now much less often - we’re tired of the war, it would sooner end so that we could live well again...” (Ibid.).
Due to the death of their parents, many homeless children appeared in the country. The Soviet state, despite the difficult war time, still 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 of teenagers was organized.
Many families of Soviet citizens began to take in orphans to raise them., where they found new parents. Unfortunately, not all teachers and heads of children's institutions were distinguished by honesty and decency. Here are some examples.
"In the fall of 1942 in the Pochinkovsky district Gorky region Children dressed in rags were caught stealing potatoes and grain from collective farm fields. It turned out that the “harvesting” was done by the pupils of the district orphanage. And they did this not at all out of a good life. Upon further investigation, local police discovered a criminal group, or, 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, accountant Sdobnov, storekeeper Mukhina and other persons. During the searches, 14 children's coats, seven suits, 30 meters of cloth, 350 meters of textiles and other illegally appropriated property were confiscated from them. with great difficulty allocated by the state in this harsh wartime.
The investigation established that by failing to supply the required quota of bread and products, these criminals stole seven tons of bread, half a ton of meat, 380 kg of sugar, 180 kg of cookies, 106 kg of fish, 121 kg of honey, etc. during 1942 alone. The orphanage workers sold all these scarce products on the market or simply ate them themselves.
Only one comrade Novoseltsev received fifteen portions of breakfast and lunch every day for himself and his family members. The rest of the staff also ate well at the expense of the pupils. The children were fed “dishes” made from rotten vegetables, citing poor supplies.
For the entire 1942, they were only given one candy for the 25th anniversary once. October revolution... And what is most surprising, the director of the orphanage Novoseltsev in the same 1942 received a certificate of honor from the People's Commissariat of Education 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 revealed.. Every day we face a choice - what to do.. 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 amount of time can heal the wounds of war, especially children’s wounds. “These years that once were, the bitterness of childhood does not allow one to forget...”
I think we all lack a description of “our” domestic kind, selfless and truly heroic deeds. Therefore, I present to your attention stories about child heroes who, sometimes, at the cost of their lives and health, without hesitation rushed to the rescue of those who needed help.
Zhenya Tabakov
The youngest hero of Russia. A real man, who was only 7 years old. The only seven-year-old recipient of the Order of Courage. Unfortunately, posthumously.
The tragedy took place on the evening of November 28, 2008. Zhenya and his twelve-year-old older sister Yana were alone at home. The doorbell rang unknown man, who introduced himself as a postman who allegedly brought a registered letter.
Yana did not suspect anything was wrong and allowed him to come in. Entering the apartment and closing the door behind him, the “postman” took out a knife instead of a letter and, grabbing Yana, began to demand that the children give him all the money and valuables. Having received an answer from the children that they did not know where the money was, the criminal demanded that Zhenya look for it, and he dragged Yana into the bathroom, where he began to tear off her clothes. Seeing how he was tearing off his sister’s clothes, Zhenya grabbed kitchen knife and in desperation thrust it into the criminal's lower back. Howling in pain, he loosened his grip, and the girl managed to run out of the apartment for help. In a rage, the would-be rapist, tearing the knife out of himself, began stabbing it into the child (eight puncture wounds, incompatible with life, were counted on Zhenya’s body), after which he fled. However, the wound inflicted by Zhenya, leaving a trail of blood behind, did not allow him to escape the pursuit.
By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of January 20, 2009. For the courage and dedication shown in the performance of civic duty, Evgeniy Evgenievich Tabakov was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. The order was received by Zhenya’s mother Galina Petrovna.
On September 1, 2013, a monument to Zhenya Tabakov was unveiled in the school yard - a boy driving a kite away from a dove.
Danil Sadykov
A 12-year-old teenager, a resident of the city of Naberezhnye Chelny, died while saving a 9-year-old schoolboy. The tragedy occurred on May 5, 2012 on Entuziastov Boulevard. At about two o'clock in the afternoon, 9-year-old Andrei Churbanov decided to get plastic bottle, fell into the fountain. Suddenly he was electrocuted, the boy lost consciousness and fell into the water.
Everyone shouted “help,” but only Danil, who was passing by on a bicycle at that moment, jumped into the water. Danil Sadykov pulled the victim onto the side, but he himself received a severe electric shock. He died before the ambulance arrived.
Thanks to the selfless act of one child, another child survived.
Danil Sadykov was awarded the Order of Courage. Posthumously. For the courage and dedication shown in saving a person in extreme conditions. The award was presented by the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Instead of his son, the boy's father, Aidar Sadykov, received it.
Maxim Konov and Georgy Suchkov
IN Nizhny Novgorod region two third-graders saved a woman who had fallen into an ice hole. When she was already saying goodbye to life, two boys passed by the pond, returning from school. A 55-year-old resident of the village of Mukhtolova, Ardatovsky district, went to the pond to draw water from the Epiphany ice hole. The ice hole was already covered with an edge of ice, the woman slipped and lost her balance. Wearing heavy winter clothes, she found herself in icy water. Having caught on the edge of the ice, the unfortunate woman began to call for help.
Fortunately, at that moment two friends Maxim and Georgy were passing by the pond, returning from school. Having noticed the woman, they, without wasting a second, rushed to help. Having reached the ice hole, the boys took the woman by both hands and pulled her onto the strong ice. The guys walked her home, not forgetting to grab a bucket and sled. Arriving doctors examined the woman, provided assistance, and she did not require hospitalization.
Of course, such a shock did not pass without a trace, but the woman never tires of thanking the guys for staying alive. She gave soccer balls and cell phones to her rescuers.
Vanya Makarov
Vanya Makarov from Ivdel is now eight years old. A year ago, he saved his classmate from the river, who fell through the ice. Looking at this little boy- slightly taller more than a meter and weighing only 22 kilograms - it’s hard to imagine how he alone could pull the girl out of the water. Vanya grew up in an orphanage with his sister. But two years ago he ended up in the family of Nadezhda Novikova (and the woman already had four children of her own). In the future, Vanya plans to go to cadet school and then become a rescuer.
Kobychev Maxim
Fire in a private residential building in the village of Zelveno Amur region broke out late in the evening. Neighbors discovered the fire very late when thick smoke poured out of the windows of the burning house. Having reported the fire, residents began to extinguish the flames by dousing it with water. By that time, things and the walls of the building were burning in the rooms. Among those who came running to help was 14-year-old Maxim Kobychev. Having learned that there were people in the house, he, without being confused, difficult situation, entered the house and pulled out Fresh air a disabled woman born in 1929. Then, taking risks own life, returned to the burning building and carried out a man born in 1972.
Kirill Daineko and Sergei Skripnik
IN Chelyabinsk region two 12-year-old friends showed real courage in saving their teachers from the destruction caused by the fall of the Chelyabinsk meteorite.
Kirill Daineko and Sergei Skripnik heard their teacher Natalya Ivanovna calling for help from the cafeteria, unable to knock down the massive doors. The guys rushed to save the teacher. First, they ran into the duty room, grabbed a reinforcement bar that came to hand and broke out the window into the dining room with it. Then, through the window opening, they carried the teacher, wounded by glass fragments, to the street. After this, the schoolchildren discovered that another woman needed help - a kitchen worker, who was overwhelmed by utensils that had collapsed from the impact of the blast wave. Having quickly cleared the rubble, the boys called adults for help.
Lida Ponomareva
The medal “For saving the dead” will be awarded to a sixth grade student in Ustvash high school Leshukonsky district (Arkhangelsk region) by Lidia Ponomareva. The corresponding Decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, reports the press service of the Regional Government.
In July 2013, a 12-year-old girl saved two seven-year-old children. Lida, ahead of the adults, jumped into the river first after the drowning boy, and then helped the girl, who was also carried away by the current far from the shore, to swim out. One of the guys on land managed to throw a life jacket to the drowning child, after which Lida pulled the girl to the shore.
Lida Ponomareva, the only one of the surrounding children and adults who found themselves at the scene of the tragedy, without hesitation, threw herself into the river. The girl doubly risked her own life, because her injured arm was very painful. When the next day after saving the children, mother and daughter went to the hospital, it turned out that it was a fracture.
Admiring the girl’s courage and bravery, the governor of the Arkhangelsk region, Igor Orlov, personally thanked Lida over the phone for her courageous act.
At the suggestion of the governor, Lida Ponomareva was nominated for a state award.
Alina Gusakova and Denis Fedorov
During terrible fires in Khakassia, schoolchildren saved three people.
That day, the girl accidentally found herself near the house of her first teacher. She came to visit a friend who lived next door.
I heard someone screaming, I said to Nina: “I’ll come now,” Alina says about that day. - I see through the window that Polina Ivanovna is shouting: “Help!” While Alina was saving school teacher, her house, in which the girl lives with her grandmother and older brother, burned to the ground.
On April 12, in the same village of Kozhukhovo, Tatyana Fedorova and her 14-year-old son Denis came to visit their grandmother. It's a holiday after all. As soon as the whole family sat down at the table, a neighbor came running and, pointing to the mountain, called to put out the fire.
We ran to the fire and started extinguishing it with rags,” says Rufina Shaimardanova, Denis Fedorov’s aunt. - When they put it out most, blew very sharply, strong wind, and the fire came towards us. We ran to the village and ran into the nearest buildings to hide from the smoke. Then we hear - the fence is cracking, everything is on fire! I couldn’t find the door, my skinny brother ducked through the crack and then came back for me. But together we can’t find a way out! It's smoky, scary! And then Denis opened the door, grabbed me by the hand and pulled me out, then his brother. I'm panicking, my brother is panicking. And Denis reassures: “Calm down Rufa.” When we walked, I couldn’t see anything at all, the lenses in my eyes melted from the high temperature...
This is how a 14-year-old schoolboy saved two people. He not only helped me get out of a house engulfed in flames, but also took me to a safe place.
The head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia Vladimir Puchkov presented departmental awards to firefighters and residents of Khakassia who distinguished themselves in eliminating massive fires at fire station No. 3 of the Abakan garrison of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia. The list of awarded 19 people includes firefighters from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, firefighters from Khakassia, volunteers and two schoolchildren from the Ordzhonikidze district - Alina Gusakova and Denis Fedorov.
Julia Korol
13-year-old Yulia Korol, an orphan, whose entire wealth lies in her grandmother and brother. After the canoe crashed, despite the lack of a life jacket, she was able to swim...
With difficulty I got up and went for help. At first she held her brother’s hand, but her hands unclenched.
She thought he had drowned. Near the shore I saw a teenager in the water. He turned out to be dead. I walked for four hours to the nearest village, fell into the river once and swam again. I asked for help local residents who started calling the Ministry of Emergency Situations and ran to the shore to save the children...
She took part in rescue operation and personally pulled children out of the water, including those already dead. The instructor tried to save the children, but he almost drowned, and she also saved the instructor. She is 13 years old.
Yulin's brother survived...
Yesterday Yulia was awarded the departmental medal “For saving those dying in the waters.”
This is only a small part of the stories about brave children and their unchildish actions. One post cannot contain stories about all the heroes. Not everyone is awarded medals, but this does not make their actions any less significant. The most main award- gratitude to those whose lives they saved.
In early October in Sarapul, a sophomore at the local mechanical engineering college, 18-year-old Vladislav Mineev, saved three people from a fire. A young man was washing a moped in the courtyard of his house and saw smoke creeping out from the neighbors’ veranda. Having called the firefighters, Vladislav went inside the veranda and heard a child’s crying and his mother’s screams. Then the young man knocked down the door, picked up a 6-year-old boy (mother...
10-year-old Igor Tsarapkin from Murmansk region saved his 15-year-old brother on the Volga in Ulyanovsk. On June 25, three children from the Murmansk region, who were visiting Ulyanovsk, came together with adults to swim wild beach. Igor, German and their 14-year-old friend Vlad Larin have been together since early childhood– as they say, we can’t live without each other. Without foreseeing trouble,...
On April 27 at four in the morning, Albert Krasnykh was returning from a business trip to Moscow. Road to hometown Mud lay across Lipetsk. On the way out, Albert saw a burning house. “A taxi driver stopped with me. He ran to the neighbors. And I decided to check the house. At first I thought the house was empty. Those who passed by probably thought so too. Broke the glass. Apparently...
A resident of Yoshkar-Ola, 30-year-old Anton Vokhmintsev, drove the priest to the church in Semyonovka and on the way saved 4-year-old Danil from a burning house. The fire in the house in the village of Znamensky, where a husband and wife and two sons, 17 and 4 years old, lived, was caused by a cigarette that was not put out by drunken parents. “I went to pick up my mother from work in the colony. IN…
A major fire that occurred on July 29 in the village of Putyatino, Nerekhta district, left two families homeless. The residents, fortunately, survived. However, everything could have ended terrible tragedy. The fire broke out at about eight in the evening in one of the apartments of a wooden one-story building, where at that time there was a woman with two small children. Noticing the fire, the mother jumped out...
In the village of Amgu, Terneysky district (Primorsky Territory), 12-year-old sixth grader Nikita Nagurov saved an 8-year-old child from a bear that attacked him. “Today in Amgu two teenagers, 12 years old and 8 years old, went to the store. They approached the store, and one saw that a bear jumped out of the gate and rushed at the smaller one - Stanislav Nagorny, who is 8 years old, became his...
“My friends and I were relaxing on the beach, on the Kokshenga River, and suddenly I heard shouts: “Help! Help!" I jumped up and saw a girl floundering in the water. At first it’s shallow there, and then there’s a hole under water. She probably splashed in the shallow water, and was carried to the depths by the current. I looked around: there were a lot of people on the beach, but...
“It was summer. I sat on the shore of Lake Kandykul and sunbathed. It was a wonderful day, the sun was very warm, I even felt a little faint in the heat. Suddenly I saw that 400 meters from the shore a man was disappearing under the water and then reappearing. He shouted and raised one hand up. I didn't think for a second. It was in my head:...
How often do we scold young people: they are not interested in anything, dissolute, spoiled...
But sometimes these very dissolute and cynical children teach us, adults, such lessons of humanity and courage, which, perhaps, the majority of properly raised men and women are not capable of.
Konov Maxim and Suchkov Georgy, risking their lives, pulled the pensioner out of the ice hole
In the Nizhny Novgorod region, two third-graders saved a woman who had fallen into an ice hole. When she was already saying goodbye to life, two boys passed by the pond, returning from school. On January 20, a 55-year-old resident of the village of Mukhtolova, Ardatovsky district, went to the pond to get water from the Epiphany ice hole. The ice hole was already covered with an edge of ice, the woman slipped and lost her balance. Wearing heavy winter clothes, she found herself in icy water. Having caught on the edge of the ice, the unfortunate woman began to call for help, but there was no one nearby. Recalling what happened later, the woman told how she thought that “her death had come,” as if from last bit of strength screamed “Help!”, but no one heard her. Fortunately, at that moment two friends Maxim and Georgy were passing by the pond, returning from school. Having noticed the woman, they, without wasting a second, rushed to help. Having reached the ice hole, the boys took the woman by both hands and pulled her onto the strong ice. The woman was exhausted. The guys walked her home, not forgetting to grab a bucket and sled. Arriving doctors examined the woman, provided assistance, and she did not require hospitalization. Of course, such a shock did not pass without a trace, but the woman never tires of thanking the guys for staying alive. She gave soccer balls and cell phones to her rescuers.
Domanin Sasha
The tragedy occurred on the Chulym River. The current here is fast, but there are no other bodies of water nearby. 19-year-old Valeria took two neighbor girls, 9-year-old Angelina and 12-year-old Zhenya, into the water. Suddenly, Angelina and Zhenya found themselves in the depths - they were thrown there by the current from a shallow riffle. One of the girls managed to shout: “Help!” The other children huddled together in fear on the shore. Sasha jumped into the water. The adults came running in response to the screams. We helped the rescued Valeria, Angelina and Zhenya get ashore. One man dived after Sasha. They got the boy out after 15 minutes and tried to pump him out, but it was too late. All of Sasha’s classmates came to the funeral. Everyone says that Sasha was an excellent swimmer. Every summer he disappeared on the river, and knew perfectly well all the “dangers” of Chulym. But only this time the circumstances were stronger than him.
Makarov Ivan
Vanya Makarov from Ivdel is now eight years old. A year ago, he saved his classmate from the river, who fell through the ice. Looking at this little boy - a little more than a meter tall and weighing only 22 kilograms - it is difficult to imagine how he alone could pull the girl out of the water. Vanya grew up in an orphanage with his sister. But two years ago he ended up in the family of Nadezhda Novikova (and the woman already had four children of her own). In the future, Vanya plans to go to cadet school to become a rescuer.
Akhmedov Albert
15-year-old resident of the Mozdok district Albert Akhmedov, risking his own life, two year old child that fell into a reservoir for storing process water. This act became known only after some time. On Ordzhonikidze Street into a reservoir for storing technical water intended for use in economic needs, two-year-old Khalid Kasheshov fell. The child could not get out on his own. The child's mother cried and asked for help. I was passing by passenger car, in which Albert Akhmedov was located. Hearing the screams, the comrade stopped, and Albert immediately rushed to the pond. Later we found out that Albert was a first-year student at the Mozdok Mechanics and Technology College.
Zakharov Pavel and Gusev Artyom
On February 20, 2014, Pavel Zakharov, Artem Gusev, and students of the Cossack Patrol club rescued a boy who had fallen through the ice.
On this day, the guys came a little earlier to the lesson of the patriotic club “Cossack Patrol”. Pasha and Artem decided to take a walk along the embankment of the Volga River. Suddenly they saw a teenage boy fall through the ice. Artyom was the first to rush to the boy, but he also couldn’t resist and fell under the ice. Then Pavel Zakharov took a stick and crawled across the ice and saved both.
Victoria Vetkova and Vlad Demyanenko
The schoolchildren gathered in a group and went for a walk to the river. One boy decided to walk on the ice. He approached the very edge and jumped onto the ice floe, but stumbled, fell into the water and immediately disappeared from sight. Seeing this, Vika lay down on the ice, crawled up and extended her hands to the drowning man. The girl herself cannot explain where the strength came from, but she pulled out the 8-year-old boy. Victoria's classmate, Vlad Demyanenko, showed courage back in December last year. Then their house caught fire. It happened late at night when everyone was sleeping. His mom and dad were already putting out the fire, Vlad rushed to their aid, the first thing he decided to do was save the documents, then he began to help his parents. He carried water and gave buckets.
Kobychev Maxim
A fire broke out in a private residential building in the village of Zelveno, Amur Region, late in the evening. Neighbors discovered the fire very late when thick smoke poured out of the windows of the burning house. Having reported the fire, residents began to extinguish the flames by dousing it with water. By that time, things and the walls of the building were burning in the rooms. Among those who came running to help was 14-year-old Maxim Kobychev. Having learned that there were people in the house, he, not at a loss in a difficult situation, entered the house and pulled a disabled woman born in 1929 into the fresh air. Then, risking his own life, he returned to the burning building and carried out a man born in 1972.
Vladimirova Lyubov
IN large families Older children often help their parents with housekeeping and looking after younger brothers and sisters. The Vladimirov family is exactly like that. The mother and four children lived in the village of Petropavlovka, Voronezh region. The eldest child in the family was thirteen-year-old Lyuba - she always helped her mother and looked after her younger brother and sisters.
Mother often had to travel to Voronezh on business, and, leaving for Once again, with a light heart she left the younger children under the care of Lyuba. That ill-fated evening Lyuba worked until late - washing, cleaning, and went to bed only after midnight. At about four o'clock in the morning the girl woke up abruptly, smelling burning. Running out of the room, Lyuba saw that the corridor was blazing with fire.
There was nowhere to run - the fire blocked the exit from the house, Entrance door it was also burning. The flames quickly spread along the walls, and soon approached the room where the children were sleeping. There was no time to hesitate. Lyuba grabbed a heavy stool and broke out the glass in two windows - she placed her sisters at one of them so that they could breathe while the girl rescued younger brother. Then Lyuba, in turn, helped everyone get out through the window onto the street. Undressed and barefoot, the children ran half a kilometer at night to get to their mother's friend. The firefighters were already called from there. The fire brigade arrived quickly, but, unfortunately, it was no longer possible to save the house - the wooden building burned down to the foundation. Lyuba failed to save the house, but this is nothing compared to the fact that she was able to save three little lives.
Gusarov Kolya
A 3rd grade student at school No. 2 in the city of Volzhsk, Kolya Gusarov, saved a newborn girl from imminent death, whom her mother gave birth to and abandoned in the bushes.
While walking with friends, Kolya discovered a bundle with a child in the bushes near the fence on Lenin Street in Volzhsk. He was not at a loss and immediately reported this to adults, who contacted the police and ambulance.
Terekhin Nikita
On the way to fishing, a 9-year-old resident of the village of Chastye Perm region Pavel Kulikov fell into icy water. 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. cold water. Thanks to brave act The boy, a schoolboy, escaped with only hypothermia.
Daineko Kirill and Skripnik Sergey
In the Chelyabinsk region, two 12-year-old friends showed real courage by saving... their teachers. And it was like this. At the moment when the explosion occurred, the children sang in chorus the song “We are not afraid of any bombing.” A moment later, the words had to be proven in practice. Kirill Daineko and Sergei Skripnik heard their teacher Natalya Ivanovna calling for help from the cafeteria, unable to knock down the massive doors. The guys rushed to save the teacher. First, they ran into the duty room, grabbed a reinforcement bar that came to hand and broke out the window into the dining room with it. Then, through the window opening, they carried the teacher, wounded by glass fragments, to the street. After this, the schoolchildren discovered that another woman needed help - a kitchen worker, who was overwhelmed by utensils that had collapsed from the impact of the blast wave. Having quickly cleared the rubble, the boys called adults for help. As it turned out, the woman's spine was broken. And if it weren’t for the help of teenagers, it is possible that the fall Chelyabinsk meteorite it would not be easy to note a large number victims, but also at least one human death.
Panamaryov Anton
A schoolboy saved a classmate. The boy pulled his friend out of the open sewer hatch. A 5th grade student at Talovskaya Secondary School, Daniil Bozhenov, fell into a hole by accident: it was simply not visible, because... a puddle spilled along the road. If he had not had time to grab the edge of the well, the boy would have fallen to a depth of four meters. Anton Panamaryov saw his head sticking out above the water. Daniel’s classmate was the only one who, by a lucky coincidence, was walking nearby. Anton rushed to help and tried to pull his friend out by the hands, but he just couldn’t do it. Then the 10-year-old child began to pull Daniil by the backpack and was finally able to rescue his classmate.
Here short stories about 12 children - heroes, this is only a small part of the feats that are performed 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.
Modernity, with its measure of success in the form of monetary units, gives rise to more heroes scandalous gossip columns rather than true heroes, whose actions evoke pride and admiration.
Sometimes it seems that real heroes remain only on the pages of books about the Great Patriotic War.
But at any time, there remain those who are ready to sacrifice the most precious things in the name of loved ones, in the name of the Motherland.
On Defender of the Fatherland Day, we will remember five of our contemporaries who accomplished feats. They did not seek fame and honor, but simply fulfilled their duty to the end.
Sergey Burnaev
Sergey Burnaev was born in Mordovia, in the village of Dubenki on January 15, 1982. When Seryozha was five years old, his parents moved to the Tula region.
The boy grew and matured, and the era changed around him. Some of his peers were eager to go into business, some into crime, and Sergei dreamed of a military career and wanted to serve in the Airborne Forces. After graduating from school, he managed to work at a rubber shoe factory, and then was drafted into the army. True, he ended up not in the landing force, but in a detachment airborne special forces"Knight".
Serious physical exercise, training did not scare the guy. The commanders immediately drew attention to Sergei - stubborn, with character, a real special forces soldier!
During two business trips to Chechnya in 2000-2002, Sergei established himself as a true professional, skillful and persistent.
On March 28, 2002, the detachment in which Sergei Burnaev served conducted a special operation in the city of Argun. The militants turned a local school into their fortification, placing an ammunition depot in it, as well as breaking through an entire system of underground passages under it. The special forces began to examine the tunnels in search of the militants who had taken refuge in them.
Sergei walked first and came across bandits. A battle ensued in the narrow and dark space of the dungeon. During the flash from the machine gun fire, Sergei saw a grenade rolling on the floor, thrown by a militant towards the special forces. The explosion could have injured several soldiers who did not see this danger.
The decision came in a split second. Sergei covered the grenade with his body, saving the rest of the soldiers. He died on the spot, but diverted the threat from his comrades.
A bandit group of 8 people was completely eliminated in this battle. All of Sergei’s comrades survived this battle.
For courage and heroism shown during the performance of a special task in conditions involving risk to life, by decree of the President Russian Federation dated September 16, 2002 No. 992, Sergeant Burnaev Sergei Aleksandrovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously).
Sergei Burnaev is forever included in the lists of his military unit of the Internal Troops. In the city of Reutov, Moscow region, on the Alley of Military Heroes memorial complex A bronze bust of the hero was installed “to all Reutovites who died for the Fatherland.”
Denis Vetchinov
Denis Vetchinov was born on June 28, 1976 in the village of Shantobe, Tselinograd region of Kazakhstan. I spent an ordinary childhood as a schoolboy of the last Soviet generation.
How is a hero raised? Probably no one knows this. But at the turn of the era, Denis chose a career as an officer, after conscript service having entered military school. Maybe it was also due to the fact that the school from which he graduated was named after Vladimir Komarov, a cosmonaut who died during a flight on the Soyuz-1 spacecraft.
After graduating from college in Kazan in 2000, the newly minted officer did not run from difficulties - he immediately ended up in Chechnya. Everyone who knew him repeats one thing - the officer did not bow to bullets, took care of the soldiers and was a real “father to the soldiers” not in words, but in essence.
In 2003 Chechen War ended for Captain Vetchinov. Until 2008, he served as deputy battalion commander for educational work in the 70th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment, in 2005 he became a major.
Life as an officer is not easy, but Denis did not complain about anything. His wife Katya and daughter Masha were waiting for him at home.
Major Vetchinov was predicted to have a great future and general's shoulder straps. In 2008, he became deputy commander of the 135th motorized rifle regiment 19th motorized rifle division 58th Army for educational work. The war in South Ossetia found him in this position.
On August 9, 2008, the marching column of the 58th Army on the approach to Tskhinvali was ambushed by Georgian special forces. Cars were shot from 10 points. The commander of the 58th Army, General Khrulev, was wounded.
Major Vetchinov, who was in the column, jumped from an armored personnel carrier and entered the battle. Having managed to prevent chaos, he organized a defense, suppressing Georgian firing points with return fire.
During the retreat, Denis Vetchinov was seriously wounded in the legs, however, overcoming the pain, he continued the battle, covering with fire his comrades and the journalists who were with the column. Only a new serious wound to the head could stop the major.
In this battle, Major Vetchinov destroyed up to a dozen enemy special forces and saved the lives of a war correspondent." Komsomolskaya Pravda» Alexander Kots, VGTRK special correspondent Alexander Sladkov and Moskovsky Komsomolets correspondent Viktor Sokirko.
The wounded major was sent to the hospital, but died on the way.
On August 15, 2008, for the courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty in the North Caucasus region, Major Denis Vetchinov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously).
Aldar Tsydenzhapov
Aldar Tsydenzhapov was born on August 4, 1991 in the village of Aginskoye, in Buryatia. The family had four children, including Aldara's twin sister Aryuna.
My father worked in the police, my mother was a nurse in a kindergarten - simple family, leading ordinary life residents of the Russian hinterland. Aldar graduated from school in his native village and was drafted into the army, ending up in the Pacific Fleet.
Sailor Tsydenzhapov served on the destroyer “Bystry”, he was trusted by the command, and was friends with his colleagues. There was only a month left before demobilization, when on September 24, 2010, Aldar took up duty as a boiler room crew operator.
The destroyer was preparing for a combat voyage from the base in Fokino in Primorye to Kamchatka. Suddenly, a fire broke out in the ship's engine room due to a short circuit in the wiring when the fuel pipeline broke. Aldar rushed to plug the fuel leak. A monstrous flame raged around, in which the sailor spent 9 seconds, managing to eliminate the leak. Despite the terrible burns, he got out of the compartment on his own. As the commission subsequently established, operational actions sailor Tsydenzhapov led to the timely shutdown of the ship's power plant, which otherwise could have exploded. In this case, both the destroyer itself and all 300 crew members would have died.
Aldar was taken to the hospital in serious condition Pacific Fleet in Vladivostok, where doctors fought for the hero’s life for four days. Alas, he died on September 28.
By Decree of the President of Russia No. 1431 of November 16, 2010, sailor Aldar Tsydenzhapov was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.
Sergei Solnechnikov
Born on August 19, 1980 in Germany, in Potsdam, in a military family. Seryozha decided to continue the dynasty as a child, without looking back at all the difficulties of this path. After the 8th grade he entered a cadet boarding school in Astrakhan region, then without exams he was admitted to the Kachin Military School. Here he was caught by another reform, after which the school was disbanded.
However, this did not turn Sergei away from a military career - he entered the Kemerovo Higher Military command school communications, which he graduated in 2003.
A young officer served in Belogorsk, on Far East. “A good officer, real, honest,” friends and subordinates said about Sergei. They also gave him the nickname “battalion commander Sun”.
I didn’t have time to start a family - I spent too much time on service. The bride waited patiently - after all, it seemed that there was still a whole life ahead.
On March 28, 2012, routine exercises on throwing the RGD-5 grenade, which are part of the training course for conscript soldiers, took place at the unit’s training ground.
19-year-old private Zhuravlev, getting excited, threw a grenade unsuccessfully - it hit the parapet and flew back where his colleagues were standing.
The confused boys looked in horror at the death lying on the ground. Battalion commander Sun reacted instantly - throwing the soldier aside, he covered the grenade with his body.
The wounded Sergei was taken to the hospital, but from numerous injuries he died on the operating table.
On April 3, 2012, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, Major Sergei Solnechnikov was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) for heroism, courage and dedication shown in the performance of military duty.
Irina Yanina
“War does not have a woman’s face” - wise phrase. But it just so happened that in all the wars that Russia waged, women found themselves next to men, enduring all the hardships and hardships equally with them.
Born in Taldy-Kurgan, Kazakh SSR on November 27, 1966, the girl Ira did not think that war would enter her life from the pages of books. School, medical school, a position as a nurse in a tuberculosis clinic, then in a maternity hospital - a purely peaceful biography.
Everything was turned upside down by the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russians in Kazakhstan suddenly became strangers and unnecessary. Like many, Irina and her family left for Russia, which had its own problems.
The husband of the beautiful Irina could not stand the difficulties and left the family in search of an easier life. Ira was left alone with two children in her arms, without normal housing and a corner. And then there was another misfortune - my daughter was diagnosed with leukemia, from which she quickly faded away.
Even men break down from all these troubles and go on a drinking binge. Irina did not break down - after all, she still had her son Zhenya, the light in the window, for whom she was ready to move mountains. In 1995, she entered service in the Internal Troops. Not for the sake of heroic deeds - they paid money there and gave rations. Paradox modern history- in order to survive and raise her son, the woman was forced to go to Chechnya, into the thick of it. Two business trips in 1996, three and a half months as a nurse under daily shelling, in blood and dirt.
Nurse medical company brigades operational purpose Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia from the city of Kalach-on-Don - in this position Sergeant Yanina found herself in her second war. Basayev's gangs were rushing to Dagestan, where local Islamists were already waiting for them.
And again, battles, wounded, killed - the daily routine of medical service in war.
“Hello, my little, beloved, most beautiful son in the world!
I really miss you. Write to me how you are doing, how is school, who are your friends? Aren't you sick? Don't go out late in the evenings - there are a lot of bandits now. Stay near the house. Don't go anywhere alone. Listen to everyone at home and know that I love you very much. Read more. You are already a big and independent boy, so do everything right so that you don’t get scolded.
Waiting for your letter. Listen to everyone.
Kiss. Mother. 08/21/99"
Irina sent this letter to her son 10 days before her last fight.
31 August 1999 brigade internal troops, in which Irina Yanina served, stormed the village of Karamakhi, which had been turned by terrorists into an impregnable fortress.
That day, Sergeant Yanina, under enemy fire, assisted 15 wounded soldiers. Then she drove to the line of fire three times in an armored personnel carrier, taking another 28 seriously wounded from the battlefield. The fourth flight was fatal.
The armored personnel carrier came under heavy enemy fire. Irina began to cover the loading of the wounded with return fire from a machine gun. Finally, the car managed to move back, but the militants set the armored personnel carrier on fire with grenade launchers.
Sergeant Yanina, while she had enough strength, pulled the wounded out of the burning car. She did not have time to get out herself - the ammunition in the armored personnel carrier began to explode.
On October 14, 1999, medical service sergeant Irina Yanina was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously), she was forever included in the lists personnel your military unit. Irina Yanina became the first woman awarded the title of Hero of Russia for fighting in the Caucasian wars.
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