“A feat every day. Everyone is capable of a feat

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You will learn about how the world is dangerous and what things you need to be careful of from many sources. We will try to tell you about the sacrificial love of some people towards others, presenting below several cases of heroism from the life of Russians:

1. Students of the Iskitim branch of the Novosibirsk Assembly College - 17-year-old Nikita Miller and 20-year-old Vlad Volkov - managed to immobilize an armed raider who was trying to rob a grocery kiosk and hold him until the police arrived.

“We didn’t have any visitors, so we went into the back room for a couple of minutes to sort out the goods. Suddenly we heard the scales hit with something iron. We look out and there’s a man standing there with a gun. I screamed, of course, immediately and pressed the panic button. And just then the guys came in. This raider got scared and tried to run away.

But Nikita and Vlad didn’t let him escape: they knocked the criminal down near the kiosk and kept him there until the police, called by the panic button, arrived,” recalls seller Svetlana Adamova.

2. In the Chelyabinsk region, priest Alexey Peregudov saved the life of the groom at a wedding.

During the wedding, the groom lost consciousness. The only one who was not at a loss in this situation was Priest Alexey Peregudov. He quickly examined the man lying down, suspected cardiac arrest and provided first aid, including chest compressions. As a result, the sacrament was successfully completed.

Father Alexey noted that before this incident he had only seen chest compressions in movies.

3. An explosion unexpectedly occurred at one of the gas stations in the city of Kaspiysk. As it turned out later, a foreign car driving at high speed crashed into a gas tank and knocked down the valve.

To hesitate a little and the fire would have spread to nearby tanks with flammable fuel.

The situation was saved by Dagestani Arsen Fitzulaev, who prevented a catastrophe at a gas station by skillfully reducing the scale of the accident to a burnt-out car and several damaged vehicles. Only later did the guy realize that he was actually risking his life.

4. Schoolchildren from the Krasnodar region Roman Vitkov and Mikhail Serdyuk saved an elderly woman from a burning house.

Heading home, they saw a fire in a private house. Running into the yard, the schoolchildren saw that the veranda was almost completely engulfed in fire. Roman and Mikhail rushed into the barn to get a tool. Grabbing a sledgehammer and an ax, breaking out the window, Roman climbed into the window opening. An elderly woman was sleeping in a smoky room. The guys broke down the door and saved the woman.

5. Tuljak Alexander Ponomarev saved a man from a burning car.

The driver went on a regular trip - or rather, everything was as usual, if the man had not seen a burning car on the side of the road.

Alexander couldn’t just drive past like the other drivers: he stopped, took a fire extinguisher and rushed to help. He knocked out the flames and tried to open the driver's door, but it was locked while a person remained in the car.

“I broke out the side window and opened the door. The car continued to burn, but there was no time to put it out - it was necessary to save the person. He pulled the man out of the driver’s seat; he didn’t understand what was happening – he inhaled carbon monoxide,” Ponomarev said.

Having dragged the victim to a safe distance, Alexander called the dispatcher and she called rescuers to the scene of the fire and went out to meet them. And Ponomarev, in order not to waste time, took the stricken driver to the nearest hospital in his truck.

6. Pskov policeman Vadim Barkanov saved two men in a fire. While walking with his friend, Vadim saw smoke and flames escaping into one of the houses.

A woman ran out of the building and began to call for help, since two men remained in the apartment. Calling the 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.

7. In Borisov, policeman Igor Pozdnyakov saved a child by removing him from the roof of a store.

32-year-old police officer Igor Poznyakov accidentally saw a one-and-a-half-year-old baby on the roof of a store: the boy was calmly walking along the edge of the roof, to which the apartment windows adjoin.

He himself talked about it this way: “I was with a colleague. I told him to stand near the roof for safety, and he ran into the entrance to the second floor. Mom opened the door, and I immediately ran to the window. He climbed through the window sill onto the roof and approached the child with the words: “Hello, buddy, come to me!” After that, he abruptly grabbed him in his arms - he didn’t even cry. By that time, people had already gathered on the street and were watching the baby. Mother, of course, was shocked. Imagine: from the roof to the ground about six meters.”

“When the doorbell rang, I was scared: “God forbid, my husband forgot to close the door and my son went outside!” A policeman stood on the threshold and ran to the window. I woke up and didn’t understand what happened. And when I saw that my son was on the roof, I was speechless. I was sleeping and didn’t even hear him wake up. It turned out that he rolled his bicycle up to the window, after which he climbed onto the windowsill and opened the window handle!” the baby’s mother shared with reporters.

The young mother is very grateful to the savior - the child’s walk on the roof could have turned into a tragedy.

8. Zalina Arsanova shielded her brother from bullets in Ingushetia.

The story took place at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

In Ingushetia, this is the time when children congratulate friends and relatives on the holiday by coming to visit them. IN next door An attempt was made on one of the FSB officers.

When the first bullet pierced the facade of the nearest house, the girl realized that it was shooting, and younger brother is in the line of fire, and covered him with herself.

The girl with a gunshot wound was taken to Malgobek Clinical Hospital No. 1, where she underwent surgery. Internal organs Surgeons had to assemble the 12-year-old child literally piece by piece, but both the girl and her brother remained alive.

9. A resident of the village of Yurmash (Bashkortostan), Rafit Shamsutdinov, saved two children in a fire.

Fellow villager Rafita lit the stove and went to school with her older children, leaving her three-year-old daughter and one-and-a-half-year-old son at home.

For some reason, a fire started. Rafit Shamsutdinov noticed smoke from the burning house. Despite the abundance of smoke, he managed to enter the burning room and carry out both children.

10. While resting after his shift, a firefighter from Bely Yar carried a woman and her baby out of the fire.

It seems like an ordinary everyday story for firefighters - saving people from burning houses. But Ivan Morozov had a day off that day - the guy and his friend worked a daily shift and went out at night to “ride around the village.”

From under the roof of one of the two-story houses, Vanya saw thick smoke escaping - and the first thing he did was dial 112, calling the fire department. But then the veranda caught fire and Ivan rushed to the house so that help could arrive on time. The fireman knocked down the door and immediately saw a woman on the floor.
“She sat as if in oblivion, and covered herself from the smoke with her hand. The door had already caught fire by that time, so I evacuated it through the window. In the process, he asked if there was anyone else at home, and she said that her son was sleeping on the second floor,” the hero recalls.

The fireman, as he was - in only a T-shirt, without a protective suit, as is required in such cases - rushed upstairs to look for the boy. He was sleeping, so Ivan easily picked him up, went down and handed him through the window to his mother.

The selection is based on materials from Komsomolskaya Pravda, the portal “Heroes of Our Time”, etc.

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We present to your attention the most heroic domestic deeds performed by our children. These are 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

Most young hero 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. An unknown man rang the doorbell and 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 a kitchen knife and, in desperation, stuck it in 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 to thrust 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 a plastic bottle that had fallen 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- height is just over a meter and weight is 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 study at cadet school to later become a rescuer.

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, without being confused, difficult situation, entered the house and pulled out Fresh air a disabled woman born in 1929. Then, risking his own life, he returned to the burning building and carried out a man born in 1972.

Kirill Daineko and Sergei Skripnik

In the Chelyabinsk region, two friends of 12 years showed real courage, saving their teachers from 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 courage, the governor Arkhangelsk region Igor Orlov personally thanked Lida over the phone for her brave deed.

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, a very sharp, strong wind blew, 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 am in panic, my brother is in panic. 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.

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.

Heroes of the Great Patriotic War

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 orphanage And labor colony. When the war began, he was not even 20. Matrosov was drafted into the army in September 1942 and sent to the infantry school, and then to the front.

In February 1943, his battalion attacked a Nazi stronghold, but fell into a trap, coming 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 lying in the snow.

Seeing that the only chance to get out of the fire was to suppress the enemy’s fire, Sailors and a fellow soldier crawled to the bunker and threw two grenades in his direction. The machine gun fell silent. The Red Army soldiers went on the attack, but the deadly weapon began to chatter again. Alexander’s partner was killed, and Sailors was left alone in front of the bunker. Something had to be done.

He didn't have even a few seconds to make a decision. Not wanting to let his comrades down, Alexander closed the bunker embrasure with his body. The attack was a success. And Sailors posthumously received the title of Hero 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 drafted into the Red Army. He ended up in an air regiment, where he became a pilot. Nikolai 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 strike a German mechanized column. It happened on the road between the Belarusian cities of Molodechno and Radoshkovichi. But the column was well guarded by enemy artillery. A fight ensued. Gastello's plane was hit by anti-aircraft guns. The shell damaged the fuel tank and the car caught fire. The pilot could have ejected, but he decided to carry out military duty to end. Nikolai Gastello directed the burning car directly at the enemy column. This was the first fire ram in the Great Patriotic War.

The name of the brave pilot became a household name. Until the end of the war, all aces who decided to ram were called Gastellites. If you follow official statistics, then during the entire war there were almost six hundred ramming attacks on the enemy.

Brigade reconnaissance officer of the 67th detachment of the 4th Leningrad partisan brigade.

Lena was 15 years old when the war began. He was already working at a factory, having completed seven years of school. When the Nazis captured his native Novgorod region, Lenya joined the partisans.

He was brave and decisive, the command valued him. Over the several years spent in the partisan detachment, he participated in 27 operations. He was responsible for several destroyed bridges behind enemy lines, 78 Germans killed, and 10 trains with ammunition.

It was he who, in the summer of 1942, near the village of Varnitsa, blew up a car in which was the German Major General of the Engineering Troops Richard von Wirtz. Golikov managed to get important documents about the German advance. The enemy attack was thwarted, and the young hero was nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for this feat.

In the winter of 1943, a significantly superior enemy detachment unexpectedly attacked the partisans near the village of Ostray Luka. Lenya Golikov died as a real hero- in battle.

Pioneer. Scout of the Voroshilov partisan detachment 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 on vacation.

In 1942, 16-year-old Zina joined the underground organization “Young Avengers”. She distributed anti-fascist leaflets in the occupied territories. Then, undercover, she got a job in a canteen for German officers, where she committed several acts of sabotage and was only miraculously not captured by the enemy. Many experienced military men were surprised at her courage.

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. She was interrogated and tortured in the dungeons. But Zina remained silent, not betraying her own. During one of these interrogations, she grabbed a pistol from the table and shot three Nazis. After that she was shot in prison.

An underground anti-fascist organization operating in the area of ​​modern Lugansk region. There were more than a hundred people. The youngest participant was 14 years old.

This underground youth organization was formed immediately after the occupation of the Lugansk region. It included both regular military personnel who found themselves 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 workshop and burn down the stock exchange, from where the Nazis were driving people away for forced labor in Germany. Members of the organization planned to stage an uprising, but were discovered due to traitors. The Nazis captured, 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 counter-offensive against Moscow began. The enemy stopped at nothing, making a decisive forced march before the onset of a harsh winter.

At this time, soldiers under the command of Ivan Panfilov took a position on the highway seven kilometers from Volokolamsk - 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 thwarting his plans. All 28 people (or almost all, historians’ opinions differ here) died.

According to legend, the company political instructor Vasily Klochkov, before the decisive stage of the battle, addressed the soldiers with a phrase that became known throughout the country: “Russia is great, but there is nowhere to retreat - Moscow is behind us!”

The Nazi counteroffensive ultimately failed. The Battle of Moscow, which was allotted vital role during the war, was lost by the occupiers.

In childhood future hero suffered from rheumatism, and 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 in flight school, but soon found himself at the front. During a combat mission, his plane was shot down, and Maresyev himself was able to eject. Eighteen days later, 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 set in, and doctors amputated both of his legs.

For many, this would have meant the end of their service, but the pilot did not give up and returned to aviation. Until the end of the war he flew with prosthetics. Over the years, he made 86 combat missions and shot down 11 enemy aircraft. Moreover, 7 - after amputation. In 1944, Alexey 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.

Viktor Talalikhin began to fight already in the Soviet-Finnish war. He shot down 4 enemy planes in a biplane. Then he served at an aviation school.

In August 1941, one of the first Soviet pilots carried out a ramming attack, shooting down a German bomber in a night air battle. Moreover, the wounded pilot was able to get out of the cockpit and parachute down to the rear of his troops.

Talalikhin then shot down five more German aircraft. Died during another air combat near Podolsk in October 1941.

73 years later, 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 the Great Patriotic War. He served on the Leningrad Front, where there were fierce and bloody battles.

On November 5, 1943, during another 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. Having collected last 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 final effort and covered the fire with his body. The explosion was avoided at the cost of the life of the brave artilleryman.

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 since 1933. When the war started, I joined the scouts. He worked behind enemy lines, commanded a partisan detachment that terrified enemy soldiers. His brigade destroyed several thousand fascist soldiers and officers, derailed hundreds of trains and blew up hundreds of cars.

The Nazis staged a real hunt for Herman. In 1943 he 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 20s. At the end of the 30s he completed armored courses. Since the fall 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.

Killed in the battle near Volosovo. In 1944, the enemy retreated from Leningrad, but from time to time they attempted to counterattack. During one of these counterattacks, Khrustitsky's tank brigade fell into a trap.

Despite heavy fire, the commander ordered the offensive to continue. He radioed to his crews with the words: “Fight 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 for railway. In October 1941, when the Germans were already near Moscow, he himself volunteered for a complex 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 this simple but effective weapon in three months, a hundred enemy trains were blown up.

Zaslonov actively agitated the local population to go over to the side of the partisans. The Nazis, realizing this, dressed their soldiers in Soviet uniforms. Zaslonov mistook them for defectors and ordered them to join the partisan detachment. Path to an insidious enemy was opened. A battle ensued, during which Zaslonov died. A reward was announced for Zaslonov, alive or dead, but the peasants hid his body, and the Germans did not get it.

Commander of a small partisan detachment.

Efim Osipenko fought back in Civil War. Therefore, when the enemy captured 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 personnel. But the detachment had little ammunition. The bomb was made from an ordinary grenade. Osipenko himself had to install the explosives. He crawled to the railway bridge and, seeing the train approaching, threw it in front of the train. There was no explosion. Then the partisan himself hit the grenade with a pole from a railway sign. It worked! A long train with food and tanks went downhill. The detachment commander survived, but completely lost his sight.

For this feat, he was the first in the country to be awarded the “Partisan of the Patriotic War” medal.

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 story of another famous peasant - Ivan Susanin. Matvey also had to lead the invaders through the forest and swamps. And, like legendary hero, 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 84 years old.

A partisan who was part of a sabotage and reconnaissance group at the headquarters of the Western Front.

While studying at school, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya wanted to enter literary institute. But these plans were not destined to come true - the war interfered. In October 1941, Zoya came to the recruiting station as a volunteer 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: mined roads and destroyed communication centers.

During one of the sabotage operations, Kosmodemyanskaya was caught by the Germans. She was tortured, forcing her to give up her own people. Zoya heroically endured all the trials without saying a word to her enemies. Seeing that it was impossible to achieve anything from the young partisan, they decided to hang her.

Kosmodemyanskaya bravely accepted the tests. Moments before her death, she shouted to the assembled locals: “Comrades, victory will be ours. German soldiers, before it’s too late, surrender!” The girl’s courage shocked the peasants so much that they later retold this story to front-line correspondents. And after publication in the newspaper Pravda, the whole country learned about Kosmodemyanskaya’s feat. She became the first woman to be awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War.

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

Alexander Prokhorenko

A special forces officer, 25-year-old Lieutenant Prokhorenko, died in March near Palmyra while carrying out missions to direct Russian air strikes against ISIS militants. He was discovered by terrorists and, finding himself surrounded, did not want to surrender and drew fire on himself. He was awarded the title of Hero of Russia posthumously, and a street in Orenburg was named after him. Prokhorenko’s feat aroused 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, Tyulgansky district. Sergey Medvedev/TASS

In Orenburg, where the officer is from, he left behind 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 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 relatives, schoolchildren, were relaxing outdoors in tents; no one expected an attack by 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 as a law enforcement officer were discovered. The purpose of the bullying was to force Nurbagandov to renounce his colleagues on record, recognize the strength of the militants and call on 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 Mohammed became the main slogan of the past year and, one might assume, for the years to come. Two small children were left without a father. Nurbagandov's son now says that he will only become a policeman.

Elizaveta Glinka

Photo: Mikhail Metzel/TASS

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

Oleg Fedura

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

Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Primorsky Territory, who distinguished 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 similar events on his account. On September 2, together with his brigade, he was heading to another village, where 400 houses were flooded and more than 1,000 people were waiting for help. Crossing the river, the KAMAZ, in which Fedura and 8 other people were, collapsed into the water. Oleg Fedura saved all the personnel, but then could not get out of the flooded car and died.

Lyubov Pechko

The entire Russian world learned the name of the 91-year-old female veteran from the news on May 9. During the festive procession in honor of Victory Day in Slavyansk, occupied by the Ukrainians, the column of veterans was pelted with eggs, doused with brilliant green and sprinkled with flour by the Ukrainian Nazis, but the spirit of the old soldiers could not be broken, no one fell out of action. The Nazis shouted insults; in occupied Slavyansk, where any Russian and Soviet symbols are prohibited, the situation was extremely explosive and could at any moment turn into a massacre. However, the veterans, despite the threat to their lives, were not afraid to openly put on their 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 directly in the face. Photos showing traces of brilliant green being wiped off Lyubov Pechko’s face have spread across social networks and the media. My sister died from shock elderly woman, who saw the abuse of veterans on TV and had a heart attack.

Danil Maksudov

In January of this year, during a severe snowstorm, a dangerous traffic jam formed on the Orenburg-Orsk highway, in which hundreds of people were trapped. Ordinary employees various services showed heroism, leading people out of icy captivity, sometimes putting them in danger own life. Russia remembers the name of policeman Danil Maksudov, who was hospitalized with severe frostbite because he gave his jacket, hat and gloves to those who needed it most. After that, Danil spent several more hours in the snowstorm helping to get people out of the jam. Then Maksudov himself ended up in the emergency traumatology department with frostbitten hands; there was talk of amputating his fingers. However, in the end the policeman recovered.

Konstantin Parikozha

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Orenburg Airlines Boeing 777-200 crew commander Konstantin Parikozha, 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 plane with a burning engine, which was carrying 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 a bang was heard and the cabin was filled with smoke, panic began. During landing, the plane's landing gear also 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 commander of the Il-18 crew that crashed in Yakutia managed to land the plane without wings. They tried to land the plane until the last minute and in the end they managed to avoid casualties, although both wings of the plane broke off when it hit the ground and the fuselage collapsed. The pilots themselves received multiple fractures, but despite this, according to rescuers, they refused help and asked to be the last to be evacuated to the hospital. “He managed the impossible,” they said about Andrei Logvinov’s skill.

Georgy Gladysh

On a February morning, the rector Orthodox church in Krivoy Rog, Priest Georgy, as usual, was riding home from service on a bicycle. Suddenly he heard cries for help from a nearby body of water. It turned out that the fisherman had fallen through the ice. The priest ran to the water, threw off his clothes and, making the sign of the cross, rushed to help. The noise caught my attention local residents, who called an ambulance and helped pull the already unconscious retired fisherman out of the water. The priest himself refused honors: " It wasn't me who saved. God decided this 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 about whether to help the person or not, I wouldn’t have time. If the people on the shore had not thrown us a rope, we would have drowned together. And so everything happened by itself"After the feat, he went on to perform church services.

Yulia 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 “Children-Heroes” nomination, at the awards ceremony for the VIII winners All-Russian festival on the topic of safety and rescue of people "Constellation of Courage". Mikhail Pochuev/TASS

The Valdai schoolgirl, despite the fact that she herself was only 12 years old, was not afraid to enter the burning a private house after hearing the screams of children. Yulia took two boys out of the house, and already on the street they told her that their other little brother remained inside. The girl returned to the house and carried a 7-year-old baby in her arms, who was crying and afraid to go down the stairs shrouded in smoke. As a result, none of the children were harmed. " 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", says the girl. Caring residents Staraya Russa They collected money and gave the girl a computer and a souvenir - a mug with her photo. 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 low-income family - Yulia’s mother is a saleswoman, and her father works at a factory.

Some people literally accomplish small feats every day. We collected 5 real stories about five amazing people, for whom illnesses and injuries do not prevent them from leading a full, active life and only, on the contrary, they stimulate new achievements and victories.

Nick Vujicic

Australian of Serbian origin Nick Vujicic was born with a rare hereditary disease - tetra-amelia syndrome. At birth, he did not have full arms and legs; he had only one foot with two fused toes. However, the boy grew up and began to lead a full life, which is so full of events and achievements that most healthy people can envy him.

Nick learned to walk, swim, skateboard, surf, play on the computer and write. Moreover, Vujicic has turned into a professional motivational speaker - he travels all over the world to tell sick, disfigured and distressed people about his life, and that often insurmountable problems that befall a person are not an obstacle to his further development .

Nick Vujicic - motivational speaker without arms and legs

Nick Vujicic stars in feature films and documentaries, appears on the covers of glossy magazines, and also writes books that motivate other people. Each of them becomes a global bestseller.

Vujicic’s physical deformity did not become an obstacle in his personal life. In 2012, at the age of thirty, he got married, and in 2013, Nick had a daughter.

Nick Vujicic with family

Aron Ralston

Part of the story of Aron Ralston is known to hundreds of millions of people on Earth. After all, it was about him in 2010 that the famous Feature Film"127 hours." Let us remind you that in the cinema we're talking about about a lover of an active lifestyle who, while walking along a mountain crevice, fell into natural captivity - a stone firmly pressed his hand to the rocky surface. After more than five days of waiting for help, Aron was forced to cut off his own limb with a blunt knife in order to free himself.

But the film doesn't talk about future fate Aron Ralston himself. The injury did not prevent him from continuing his activities in mountaineering and rock climbing; he was even able to conquer all the eight-thousand-meter mountains in the world. In place of the living hand, Aron installs special prosthetics, which are also part of his professional equipment. Ralston no longer needs to hold all kinds of mechanisms and tools in his palm - the hand itself becomes them as needed.

Aron's story became public knowledge. He became a frequent guest on television, and then wrote a book about his tragic incident, published in Russian with the title “127 hours. Between a rock and a hard place." It was filmed based on it famous movie starring James Franco.

Aaron Ralston with family

Todd Key

American Todd Key attracts attention at literally every cycling competition in which he takes part. And this is not surprising, because he is the only professional cyclist in the world who does not have an arm and... a leg.

At the age of seven, Todd had a bad fall and broke his arm, after which it began to become deformed and stopped growing. He lost his leg at the age of seventeen - doctors were forced to amputate it due to knee cancer.

But Todd Key did not accept his injuries. He started studying different types sports, eventually giving preference to the bicycle. Now he even takes part in professional bicycle racing, being the “face” of the AirparkBikes company, which created a special bicycle for this unusual athlete.

Todd Key - professional cyclist without an arm or leg

Of course, Todd Key doesn't claim to be top places in bicycle racing. His participation in such competitions is already a daily victory over himself and public opinion.

Key also gives lectures and meetings with people who have recently become disabled. By his example, he convinces them that life is not over, success awaits them ahead, but for this the main thing is not to get hung up on their own problems, but to regularly discover new horizons for themselves.

Ballet duet Hand in Hand

The dance duet Hand in Hand is yet another proof that the absence of arms or legs is not an obstacle to achieving worldwide success in areas where it would seem impossible to do anything without these limbs.

Ballet duet Hand in Hand

The ballet couple Hand in Hand consists of dancers named Ma Li and Zhai Xiaowei. The girl in this duet does not have an arm, and the guy does not have legs. But this did not stop them from creating their own successful dance show, which is applauded by audiences around the world.

Ballet duet Hand in Hand

Each of this couple tries to compensate and level out the injuries of their own partner with the help of their actions. And they do it very well.

John Bramblitt

American John Bramblitt can be described by a phrase that for any inhabitant of the Earth will seem to be a mutually exclusive concept. He is a blind artist, at the same time, a fairly good creator, whose paintings are exhibited even in the most famous galleries and museums around the world.

John Bramblitt - blind artist

At the age of thirty, John Bramblitt lost his sight due to complications caused by epilepsy. At first, he practically did not leave the house, was in a state of depression and even thought about suicide. But over time, he took up drawing. To do this, John managed to find relief paints, so he paints by touch.