Superheroes aren't just for comics and movies. There are many real-life heroes around the world performing superhuman feats. From unthinkable strength to incredible manifestations of courage and perseverance, these real people showed by example what incredible feats can be accomplished thanks to the strength of the human spirit.
10. A blind man saved a blind woman from a burning house.
Imagine what it's like to try to rescue a blind person from a burning building by guiding them step by step through the searing flames and smoke. Now imagine that you, too, are blind, as in this inspiring story. Jim Sherman, who is blind from birth, heard his 85-year-old neighbor's cries for help when she was trapped in her burning house. In a feat that can safely be called heroic, he made his way to her house from his trailer located next door, groping his way along the fence.
Once he got to the woman's house, he somehow managed to get in and locate his terrified neighbor, Annie Smith, who is also blind. Sherman pulled Smith from the burning house to safety.
9 Skydiving instructors sacrificed everything to save their students
Not many people survive a fall from a height of thousands of meters. However, no matter how incredible it may seem, two women managed to do this, thanks to the selfless deeds of two men. The first man gave his life to save the man he had just met. Skydiving instructor Robert Cook (Robert Cook) and his student, Kimberley Dear (Kimberley Dear), took to the skies so that she could make her first jump, it was at this time that the plane's engine failed. In an incredible feat, Cook told Deer to sit on his lap, clutching their gear. As the plane crashed to the ground, Cook's body absorbed the impact, killing him but protecting Kimberly Dear from what was to be a fatal accident.
Another skydiving instructor, Dave Hartsock, also saved his student from being hit. This was Shirley Dygert's first tandem jump with an instructor. Although their aircraft did not fail, Digert's parachute did not open. In a terrifying freefall, Hartsock was able to position himself under his student, taking the hit as they fell to the ground together. Despite the fact that Dave Hartsock fractured his spine, leaving his body paralyzed from the neck down, they both survived the fall.
8. A man carried four soldiers from the battlefield
Despite being a mere mortal, Joe Rollino spent his 104-year life doing incredible, superhuman things. Although he weighed only approximately 68 kilograms in his prime, he could lift 288 kilograms with his fingers and 1450 kilograms on his back. He won several strongman titles and many honors.
However, what made him a hero in the eyes of many people was not his talent in strength competitions, nor his title of "World's Strongest Man" that he earned on Coney Island. During World War II, Rollino served in the Pacific and received a Bronze & Silver Star for gallantry in the line of duty, and three Purple Hearts for his battle injuries that caused he spent a total of 24 months in the hospital. He is best known for the fact that he pulled his comrades from the battlefield, two in each hand, and then returned to the line of fire to carry more of his wounded brethren to safety.
7. A father fought an alligator to save his son.
A father's love can inspire superhuman feats, as two fathers from different parts of the world proved. In Florida, Joseph Welch came to the aid of his six-year-old son when an alligator grabbed the boy's arm. With no regard for his own safety, Welch hit the alligator non-stop in an attempt to get him to let go of his son. Finally, a passerby arrived to help Welch and began to kick the alligator in the stomach until the animal finally let go of the boy.
In Mutoko, Zimbabwe, another father saved his son from being attacked by a crocodile in a river. The father, named Tafadzwa Kacher, began to poke reeds in the eyes and mouth of the crocodile until he released his son. Having released the boy, the crocodile rushed at his father. Tafadzwa had to gouge out the animal's eyes to free his hand. The boy ended up losing his leg due to a crocodile attack, but survived and spoke of his father's superhuman bravery.
Source 6Two real-life Wonder Women who lifted cars to save lives
Men are not the only ones who can show superhuman strength in times of crisis. The daughter and mother showed that women can also be heroes, especially when a loved one is in danger. In Virginia, a 22-year-old woman saved her father's life when the BMW he was working on slid off the jack and landed on his chest, pinning him down. Realizing that there was no time to wait for help, the young woman lifted the car and pulled her father out, then gave him CPR to force him to breathe.
In Georgia, another jack slipped and lowered a 1,350-pound Chevy Impala onto a young man. Alone, his mother, Angela Cavallo, lifted the car and held it for five minutes until neighbors managed to drag her son to safety.
SourcePhoto 5The woman stopped an unmanned school bus.
Not all superhuman abilities consist of strength and courage, some of them are the ability to think and act quickly in an emergency. In New Mexico, a school bus full of kids became a traffic hazard when the driver had a seizure. The girl waiting for the bus saw that the bus driver was in trouble and turned to her mother for help. A woman, Rhonda Carlsen, immediately came to the rescue.
She ran beside the bus and gestured to one of the children on the bus to open the door. After the door was opened, Carlsen jumped onto the bus, grabbed the steering wheel, and calmly stopped the bus. Her quick reflexes helped prevent any harm that could be done to the children on the bus, not to mention any bystanders who might get in the way of the unmanned bus.
4. A teenager pulled a man out of a truck hanging over an abyss.
A truck with a trailer lurched over the edge of a cliff in the dead of night. The cab of the large truck creaked as it came to a stop, and began to dangle precariously over the ravine below. The truck driver was trapped inside. The young man came to his aid, broke the window and dragged the driver to safety with his bare hands. This is not a scene from an action movie, but a real event that took place in New Zealand in the Waioeka Gorge on October 5, 2008.
18-year-old Peter Hanne, who became a hero, was in his house when he heard the roar. Without thinking about his own safety, he climbed onto the balancing truck, jumped into a narrow gap between the cab and the trailer, and broke the rear window of the driver's cab. He gently helped the injured driver to safety as the truck creaked and rocked under their feet. In 2011, Hanne was awarded the New Zealand Bravery Medal for his heroic deed.
SourcePhoto 3The bullet-riddled soldier who returned to the battlefield
War is full of heroes, and many of them risk their lives to save their fellow soldiers. In the movie Forrest Gump, we saw how the fictional character of the same name saved several of his fellow soldiers, even after he received a gunshot wound. In real life, there are even more exciting stories, such as the story of Robert Ingram, who received the Medal of Honor (Medal Of Honor).
In 1966, while under siege from the enemy, Ingram continued to fight and rescue his comrades after being hit by three bullets - one in the head, which left him partially blind and deaf in one ear, the second hit in the arm, and the third dug into his left knee. Despite his wounds, Ingram continued to kill the North Vietnamese soldiers who were attacking his unit, and went under fire to save his fellow soldiers. His bravery is just one breathtaking example of the many wartime heroes who defended their countries with incredible feats.
Source 2The World Swimming Champion Saved 20 People from a Sinking Trolleybus
Aquaman is no match for Shavarsh Karapetyan, who saved 20 people from drowning in a submerged trolley bus in 1976. 11-time world record holder, 17-time world champion, 13-time European champion, seven-time USSR champion, Armenian speed swimming champion was finishing a training run with his brother when he witnessed a 92-passenger trolley bus run off the road into a reservoir falling into the water 24 meters from the shore. Karapetyan dived into the water, kicked out the rear window and began to get dozens of passengers out of the trolleybus, which by that time was already at a depth of 10 meters in icy water.
It was estimated that it took him approximately 30 seconds to save one person, allowing him to save person after person before he himself passed out in the cold, muddy water. Of all the people he pulled out of the trolleybus in that short time, 20 people survived. However, the heroic work of Karapetyan did not end there. Eight years later, he ran into a burning building and dragged several people to safety, suffering severe burns. Karapetyan received the Order of the Badge of Honor from the USSR and many other awards for underwater rescue, but he claimed that he was not a hero and did only what he had to.
1. A man raised a helicopter to save his employee
The TV show set became a real-life drama when a helicopter from the popular TV series Magnum P.I. fell into a drainage ditch in 1988. Preparing for a soft landing, the helicopter suddenly lurched out of control and crashed to the ground, all of which was caught on film. One of the show's pilots, Steve Kux, was trapped under a helicopter in shallow water. In an incredible Man of Steel moment, Warren “Tiny” Everal ran up and lifted the helicopter off Cax. The helicopter was a model Hughes 500D (Hughes 500D), and such a helicopter weighs at least 703 kilograms when it is not loaded.
Peewee's quick reaction and his superhuman strength saved Cax from the weight of the helicopter, chaining him to the water, which could crush him. Although the pilot's left arm was injured, he recovered from what could have been a fatal crash thanks to a local Hawaiian hero.
Heroes of the Great Patriotic War
Alexander Matrosov
Submachine gunner of the 2nd Separate Battalion of the 91st Separate Siberian Volunteer Brigade named after Stalin.
Sasha Matrosov did not know his parents. He was brought up in an orphanage and a labor colony. When the war began, he was not even 20. Matrosov was drafted into the army in September 1942 and sent to an infantry school, and then to the front.
In February 1943, his battalion attacked the Nazi stronghold, but fell into a trap, falling under heavy fire, cutting off the path to the trenches. They fired from three bunkers. Two soon fell silent, but the third continued to shoot the Red Army soldiers who lay in the snow.
Seeing that the only chance to get out of the fire was to suppress the enemy's fire, Matrosov crawled to the bunker with a fellow soldier and threw two grenades in his direction. The gun was silent. The Red Army went on the attack, but the deadly weapon chirped again. Alexander's partner was killed, and Matrosov was left alone in front of the bunker. Something had to be done.
He didn't even have a few seconds to make a decision. Not wanting to let his comrades down, Alexander closed the embrasure of the bunker with his body. The attack was successful. And Matrosov posthumously received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
Military pilot, commander of the 2nd squadron of the 207th long-range bomber aviation regiment, captain.
He worked as a mechanic, then in 1932 he was called up for service in the Red Army. He got into the air regiment, where he became a pilot. Nicholas Gastello participated in three wars. A year before the Great Patriotic War, he received the rank of captain.
On June 26, 1941, the crew under the command of Captain Gastello took off to attack a German mechanized column. It was on the road between the Belarusian cities of Molodechno and Radoshkovichi. But the column was well guarded by enemy artillery. A fight ensued. Aircraft Gastello was hit by anti-aircraft guns. The shell damaged the fuel tank, the car caught fire. The pilot could eject, but he decided to fulfill his military duty to the end. Nikolay Gastello directed the burning car directly to the enemy column. It was the first fire ram in the Great Patriotic War.
The name of the brave pilot has become a household name. Until the end of the war, all the aces who decided to go for a ram were called Gastellites. According to official statistics, almost six hundred enemy rams were made during the entire war.
Brigadier scout of the 67th detachment of the 4th Leningrad partisan brigade.
Lena was 15 years old when the war began. He already worked at the factory, having finished the seven-year plan. When the Nazis captured his native Novgorod region, Lenya joined the partisans.
He was brave and determined, the command appreciated him. For several years spent in the partisan detachment, he participated in 27 operations. On his account, several destroyed bridges behind enemy lines, 78 destroyed Germans, 10 trains with ammunition.
It was he who, in the summer of 1942, near the village of Varnitsa, blew up a car in which the German Major General of the Engineering Troops, Richard von Wirtz, was located. Golikov managed to obtain important documents about the German offensive. The enemy attack was thwarted, and the young hero for this feat was presented to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
In the winter of 1943, a significantly superior enemy detachment unexpectedly attacked partisans near the village of Ostraya Luka. Lenya Golikov died like a real hero - in battle.
Pioneer. Scout of the partisan detachment named after Voroshilov in the territory occupied by the Nazis.
Zina was born and went to school in Leningrad. However, the war found her on the territory of Belarus, where she came for the holidays.
In 1942, 16-year-old Zina joined the underground organization Young Avengers. It distributed anti-fascist leaflets in the occupied territories. Then, under cover, she got a job working in a canteen for German officers, where she committed several acts of sabotage and only miraculously was not captured by the enemy. Her courage surprised many experienced soldiers.
In 1943, Zina Portnova joined the partisans and continued to engage in sabotage behind enemy lines. Due to the efforts of defectors who surrendered Zina to the Nazis, she was captured. In the dungeons, she was interrogated and tortured. But Zina was silent, not betraying her. At one of these interrogations, she grabbed a pistol from the table and shot three Nazis. After that, she was shot in prison.
Underground anti-fascist organization operating in the area of modern Luhansk region. There were over a hundred people. The youngest participant was 14 years old.
This youth underground organization was formed immediately after the occupation of the Lugansk region. It included both regular military personnel, who were cut off from the main units, and local youth. Among the most famous participants: Oleg Koshevoy, Ulyana Gromova, Lyubov Shevtsova, Vasily Levashov, Sergey Tyulenin and many other young people.
The "Young Guard" issued leaflets and committed sabotage against the Nazis. Once they managed to disable an entire tank repair shop, burn down the stock exchange, from where the Nazis drove people to forced labor in Germany. The members of the organization planned to stage an uprising, but were exposed because of the traitors. The Nazis caught, tortured and shot more than seventy people. Their feat is immortalized in one of the most famous military books by Alexander Fadeev and the film adaptation of the same name.
28 people from the personnel of the 4th company of the 2nd battalion of the 1075th rifle regiment.
In November 1941, a counteroffensive against Moscow began. The enemy did not stop at nothing, making a decisive forced march before the onset of a harsh winter.
At this time, the fighters under the command of Ivan Panfilov took up a position on the highway seven kilometers from Volokolamsk, a small town near Moscow. There they gave battle to the advancing tank units. The battle lasted four hours. During this time, they destroyed 18 armored vehicles, delaying the enemy's attack and frustrating his plans. All 28 people (or almost all, here the opinions of historians differ) died.
According to legend, the political instructor of the company, Vasily Klochkov, before the decisive stage of the battle, turned to the fighters with a phrase that became known throughout the country: “Russia is great, but there is nowhere to retreat - Moscow is behind!”
The Nazi counteroffensive ultimately failed. The battle for Moscow, which was assigned the most important role during the war, was lost by the invaders.
As a child, the future hero suffered from rheumatism, and the doctors doubted that Maresyev would be able to fly. However, he stubbornly applied to the flight school until he was finally enrolled. Maresyev was drafted into the army in 1937.
He met the Great Patriotic War at the flight school, but soon got to the front. During a sortie, his plane was shot down, and Maresyev himself was able to eject. Eighteen days, seriously wounded in both legs, he got out of the encirclement. However, he still managed to overcome the front line and ended up in the hospital. But gangrene had already begun, and the doctors amputated both of his legs.
For many, this would mean the end of the service, but the pilot did not give up and returned to aviation. Until the end of the war, he flew with prostheses. Over the years, he made 86 sorties and shot down 11 enemy aircraft. And 7 - already after amputation. In 1944, Alexei Maresyev went to work as an inspector and lived to be 84 years old.
His fate inspired the writer Boris Polevoy to write The Tale of a Real Man.
Deputy squadron commander of the 177th Air Defense Fighter Aviation Regiment.
Victor Talalikhin began to fight already in the Soviet-Finnish war. He shot down 4 enemy planes on a biplane. Then he served in the aviation school.
In August 1941, one of the first Soviet pilots made a ram, shooting down a German bomber in a night air battle. Moreover, the wounded pilot was able to get out of the cockpit and descend by parachute to the rear of his own.
Talalikhin then shot down five more German planes. Killed during another air battle near Podolsk in October 1941.
After 73 years, in 2014, search engines found Talalikhin's plane, which remained in the swamps near Moscow.
Artilleryman of the 3rd counter-battery artillery corps of the Leningrad Front.
Soldier Andrei Korzun was drafted into the army at the very beginning of World War II. He served on the Leningrad front, where there were fierce and bloody battles.
November 5, 1943, during the next battle, his battery came under fierce enemy fire. Korzun was seriously wounded. Despite the terrible pain, he saw that the powder charges were set on fire and the ammunition depot could fly into the air. Gathering the last of his strength, Andrey crawled to the blazing fire. But he could no longer take off his overcoat to cover the fire. Losing consciousness, he made a last effort and covered the fire with his body. The explosion was avoided at the cost of the life of a brave gunner.
Commander of the 3rd Leningrad Partisan Brigade.
A native of Petrograd, Alexander German, according to some sources, was a native of Germany. He served in the army from 1933. When the war began, he became a scout. He worked behind enemy lines, commanded a partisan detachment, which terrified the enemy soldiers. His brigade destroyed several thousand fascist soldiers and officers, derailed hundreds of trains and blew up hundreds of vehicles.
The Nazis staged a real hunt for Herman. In 1943, his partisan detachment was surrounded in the Pskov region. Making his way to his own, the brave commander died from an enemy bullet.
Commander of the 30th Separate Guards Tank Brigade of the Leningrad Front
Vladislav Khrustitsky was drafted into the Red Army back in the 1920s. In the late 30s he graduated from armored courses. Since the autumn of 1942, he commanded the 61st separate light tank brigade.
He distinguished himself during Operation Iskra, which marked the beginning of the defeat of the Germans on the Leningrad Front.
He died in the battle near Volosovo. In 1944, the enemy retreated from Leningrad, but from time to time made attempts to counterattack. During one of these counterattacks, Khrustitsky's tank brigade fell into a trap.
Despite heavy fire, the commander ordered to continue the offensive. He turned on the radio to his crews with the words: "Stand to the death!" - and went forward first. Unfortunately, the brave tanker died in this battle. And yet the village of Volosovo was liberated from the enemy.
Commander of a partisan detachment and brigade.
Before the war, he worked on the railroad. In October 1941, when the Germans were already standing near Moscow, he himself volunteered for a difficult operation, in which his railway experience was needed. Was thrown behind enemy lines. There he came up with the so-called "coal mines" (in fact, these are just mines disguised as coal). With the help of this simple but effective weapon, a hundred enemy trains were blown up in three months.
Zaslonov actively agitated the local population to go over to the side of the partisans. The Nazis, having learned this, dressed their soldiers in Soviet uniforms. Zaslonov mistook them for defectors and ordered them to be allowed into the partisan detachment. The path to the insidious enemy was open. A battle ensued, during which Zaslonov died. A reward was announced for living or dead Zaslonov, but the peasants hid his body, and the Germans did not get it.
The commander of a small partisan detachment.
Yefim Osipenko fought back in the Civil War. Therefore, when the enemy seized his land, without thinking twice, he joined the partisans. Together with five other comrades, he organized a small partisan detachment that committed sabotage against the Nazis.
During one of the operations, it was decided to undermine the enemy composition. But there was little ammunition in the detachment. The bomb was made from an ordinary grenade. The explosives were to be installed by Osipenko himself. He crawled to the railway bridge and, seeing the approach of the train, threw it in front of the train. There was no explosion. Then the partisan himself hit the grenade with a pole from the railway sign. It worked! A long train with food and tanks went downhill. The squad leader survived, but lost his sight completely.
For this feat, he was the first in the country to be awarded the medal "Partisan of the Patriotic War."
The peasant Matvey Kuzmin was born three years before the abolition of serfdom. And he died, becoming the oldest holder of the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
His story contains many references to the history of another famous peasant - Ivan Susanin. Matvey also had to lead the invaders through the forest and swamps. And, like the legendary hero, he decided to stop the enemy at the cost of his life. He sent his grandson ahead to warn a detachment of partisans who had stopped nearby. The Nazis were ambushed. A fight ensued. Matvey Kuzmin died at the hands of a German officer. But he did his job. He was in his 84th year.
A partisan who was part of the sabotage and reconnaissance group of the headquarters of the Western Front.
While studying at school, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya wanted to enter a literary institute. But these plans were not destined to come true - the war prevented. In October 1941, Zoya, as a volunteer, came to the recruiting station and, after a short training at a school for saboteurs, was transferred to Volokolamsk. There, an 18-year-old partisan fighter, along with adult men, performed dangerous tasks: she mined roads and destroyed communication centers.
During one of the sabotage operations, Kosmodemyanskaya was caught by the Germans. She was tortured, forcing her to betray her own. Zoya heroically endured all the trials without saying a word to the enemies. Seeing that it was impossible to get anything from the young partisan, they decided to hang her.
Kosmodemyanskaya steadfastly accepted the test. A moment before her death, she shouted to the assembled local residents: “Comrades, victory will be ours. German soldiers, before it's too late, surrender!" The courage of the girl so shocked the peasants that they later retold this story to front-line correspondents. And after the publication in the Pravda newspaper, the whole country learned about the feat of Kosmodemyanskaya. She became the first woman to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War.
Every day in Russia, ordinary citizens perform feats who do not pass by when someone needs help. The exploits of these people are not always noticed by officials, they are not awarded letters of commendation, but this does not make their actions any less significant.
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. All events took place in February 2014.
Schoolchildren from the 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.
“Roma is smaller than me, so he easily entered the window opening, but he couldn’t get out the same way back with his grandmother in his arms. Therefore, we had to break open the door and only in this way managed to carry out the victim, ”said Misha Serdyuk.
Residents of the village of Altynai, Sverdlovsk Region, Elena Martynova, Sergey Inozemtsev, Galina Sholokhova, rescued children from a fire. Arson was committed by the owner of the house, while blocking the door. At that time, there were three children aged 2–4 and 12-year-old Elena Martynova in the building. Noticing the fire, Lena unlocked the door and began to carry the children out of the house. Galina Sholokhova and the children's cousin Sergei Inozemtsev came to her aid. All three heroes received certificates from the local Ministry of Emergency Situations.
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.
In Mordovia, Chechen war veteran Marat Zinatullin distinguished himself by rescuing an elderly man from a burning apartment. Having witnessed the fire, Marat acted like a professional fireman. 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 into the entrance.
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.
A resident of the Yurmash village (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 a one-and-a-half-year-old son, went off to school with her older children. 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.
Dagestan Arsen Fittsulaev prevented a catastrophe 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.
And in the village of Ilyinka-1, Tula Region, schoolchildren Andrey Ibronov, Nikita Sabitov, Andrey Navruz, Vladislav Kozyrev and Artem Voronin pulled a pensioner out of a well. 78-year-old Valentina Nikitina fell into a well and could not get out on her own. 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.
In the village of Romanovo, Kaliningrad region, a twelve-year-old schoolboy Andrey Tokarsky distinguished himself. He saved his cousin, who fell through the ice. The incident occurred on Lake Pugachevskoye, where the boys, together with Andrei's aunt, came to ride on the cleared ice.
A policeman from the Pskov region Vadim Barkanov saved two men on. Walking with his friend, Vadim saw smoke and flames of fire escaping from the window of an apartment in a residential building. A woman ran out of the building and began to call for help, as two men remained in the apartment. Calling firefighters, Vadim and his friend rushed to their aid. As a result, they managed to carry two unconscious men out of the burning building. The victims were taken by ambulance to the hospital, where they received the necessary medical care.
79-year-old Elena Golubeva was the first to come to the aid of the victims of the crash of the Nevsky Express She gave all her blankets and clothes to the victims
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.
In Bashkiria, a first-grader rescued 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
Schoolchildren from the 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.
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.
And in the village of Ilyinka-1, Tula Region, schoolchildren Andrey Ibronov, Nikita Sabitov, Andrey Navruz, Vladislav Kozyrev and Artem Voronin pulled a pensioner out of a well. 78-year-old Valentina Nikitina fell into a well and could not get out on her own. 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.
In Mordovia, Chechen war veteran Marat Zinatullin distinguished himself by rescuing an elderly man from a burning apartment. Having witnessed the fire, Marat acted like a professional fireman. 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
A housing and communal services employee saved a fisherman who fell through the ice. Everything happened a year ago - on November 30, 2013. A fisherman fell through the ice on the Chernoistochinsky Pond. Rais Salakhutdinov, an employee of the housing and communal services emergency service, who was also fishing on the pond, came to his aid and heard cries for help.
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 “The 11-month-old baby's tongue sunk down and he stopped breathing. The father, realizing that the count goes on for seconds, took a kitchen knife, made an incision in the throat area of his son and inserted a tube into him, which he made from a pen, ”
She shielded 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. In a neighboring yard, an assassination attempt was made on one of the FSB officers. When the first bullet pierced the facade of the nearest house, the girl realized that this 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. The surgeons had to collect the internal organs of a 12-year-old child literally in parts. Fortunately, everyone survived
