On the eve of Defender of the Fatherland Day and the seventieth anniversary of Victory, heroes of bygone times are increasingly remembered. But even in our time there are people who, out of duty, risk their lives every day. FederalPress compiled a list of the top 10 heroes who gave their lives for others in peacetime. Of course, there are much more than ten stories about the courage of doctors, firefighters, police officers, soldiers and officers.

On the eve of Defender of the Fatherland Day and the seventieth anniversary of Victory, heroes of bygone times are increasingly remembered. But even in our time there are people who, out of duty, risk their lives every day. FederalPress compiled the top 10 heroes who gave their lives for others in peacetime. Of course, there are much more than ten stories about the courage of doctors, firefighters, police officers, soldiers and officers. We just wanted to remind you that there is always a place for heroism in life.

In September 2014, an emergency occurred on the territory of a military unit during an exercise in Lesnoy. The junior sergeant pulled the pin on the grenade and dropped the ammunition. Colonel Serik Sultangabiev managed to react in time.

The President of Russia, on the recommendation of the command of the Internal Troops, signed a decree conferring the highest rank of ““” on the colonel.

In July 2014, several journalists and photojournalist Andrei Stenin went to Donbass to provide reliable information about what was happening in southeastern Ukraine.

The circumstances of the death of Andrei Stenin in Donbass. As FederalPress previously reported, the column of refugees in which the photographer was located came under fire northwest of the village of Dmitrovka. The Ukrainian army, presumably the 79th airmobile brigade, opened fire on the vehicles of civilians with cannons and machine guns. As a result, ten cars were destroyed, but several people managed to escape and hide in the roadside bushes.

The next day, representatives of the Ukrainian command inspected the site of the shelling of the convoy, after which the area with the remains of the dead and broken vehicles was treated with Grad rocket launchers. All journalists who died in Donbass were posthumously awarded.

Last June, a major accident occurred at the Achinsk Oil Refinery. During startup work at the gas fractionation unit, a volumetric explosion and fire occurred. As a result.

In January 2012, a fire occurred in the basement of a residential building in Omsk. Thick black smoke came from there and enveloped the second entrance of the house; people were asking for help from the windows. Arriving firefighters evacuated 38 people, eight of them children, and went to the smoky basement.

Despite zero visibility, the fire brigade, led by senior warrant officer of the sixth fire department Alexander Kozhemyakin, removed two gas cylinders that could have exploded.

Half an hour later, the firefighters' breathing apparatus alarms went off. This meant that the air in the cylinders was running out. Kozhemyakin, realizing that there was a real threat to the lives of his subordinates, became the leader and helped his comrades get out of the smoke-filled and cluttered basement. While freeing a subordinate entangled in a wire, the commander suddenly lost consciousness. For more than an hour, emergency doctors tried to bring him back to life, but without regaining consciousness. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage.

In September 2010, a fire broke out in the engine room of the destroyer Bystry at the Fokino naval base due to a short circuit in the wiring when a fuel pipeline broke. Aldar Tsydenzhapov, who took up duty as a boiler crew operator, immediately rushed to plug the leak. He was in the center of the fire for about nine seconds; after eliminating the leak, he was able to independently get out of the compartment engulfed in flames, receiving severe burns. The prompt actions of Aldar and his colleagues led to the timely shutdown of the ship's power plant, which otherwise could have exploded and caused severe damage to the ship.

Aldar was taken to the Pacific Fleet hospital in Vladivostok in serious condition. Doctors fought for his life for four days, but he died. In 2011, the sailor posthumously became.

Superheroes aren't just for comics and movies. There are many real-life heroes around the world who perform superhuman feats. From unimaginable strength to incredible displays of courage and perseverance, these real people showed by example what incredible feats can be accomplished through the power 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, guiding them step by step through searing flames and smoke. Now imagine that you too are blind, just like in this inspiring story. Jim Sherman, who is blind from birth, heard his 85-year-old neighbor's cries for help as she became trapped in her burning home. In a feat that can certainly be called heroic, he snuck into her house from his trailer next door, feeling his way along the fence.

Once he reached the woman's house, he somehow managed to get inside and locate his frightened 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 thousands of meters. However, no matter how incredible it may seem, two women managed to do it, thanks to the selfless actions of two men. The first man gave his life to save the man he had just met. Skydiving instructor Robert Cook and his student, Kimberley Dear, took to the skies so she could make her first jump when the plane's engine failed. In an incredible feat, Cook told Deere to sit on his lap, locking their gear together. As the plane crashed to the ground, Cook's body absorbed the impact, killing him but protecting Kimberly Dear from what should have been 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 plane did not malfunction, Diegert's parachute did not open. During a terrifying freefall, Hartsock was able to position himself underneath his student, taking the impact as they fell to the ground together. Even though Dave Hartsock broke 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 performing incredible, superhuman feats. Although he only weighed approximately 68 kilograms at his prime, he could lift 288 kilograms with his fingers and 1,450 kilograms on his back. He has won several strongman titles and many accolades.

However, what made him a hero in the eyes of many people was not his talent in strength competitions or his title of “The Strongest Man in the World”, which he received at Coney Island. During World War II, Rollino served in the Pacific and received a Bronze & Silver Star for gallantry in the line of duty, as well as three Purple Hearts for his combat injuries that caused he spent a total of 24 months in hospital. He is best known for the fact that he pulled his comrades off 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 continually punched the alligator in an attempt to force it to let go of his son. Finally, a passerby arrived to help Welch and began kicking the alligator in the stomach until the animal finally let go of the boy.

In Mutoko, Zimbabwe, another father saved his son from a crocodile attack in a river. The father, named Tafadzwa Kacher, began poking reeds into the crocodile's eyes and mouth until it 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 eventually lost his leg to a crocodile attack, but survived and spoke of his father's superhuman bravery.

6. Two real-life Wonder Women who lifted cars to save lives


Men are not the only ones who can display 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 slipped off a jack and landed on his chest, crushing him. Realizing there was no time to wait for help, the young woman lifted the car and pulled her father out, then performed CPR on him to get him to breathe.

In Georgia, another jack slipped out and lowered a 3,000-pound Chevy Impala onto a young man. Without help, his mother, Angela Cavallo, lifted the car and held it for five minutes until neighbors managed to pull her son to safety.

5. A woman stopped an unmanned school bus.


Not all superhuman abilities consist of strength and courage, some of them involve the ability to think quickly and act in an emergency. In New Mexico, a school bus carrying children became a road hazard when the driver suffered a seizure. A girl waiting for the bus saw that the bus driver was in trouble and turned to her mother for help. The woman, Rhonda Carlsen, immediately came to the rescue.

She ran next to the bus and, using gestures, convinced 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 have been caused to the children on the bus, not to mention any bystanders who might have been in the path of the unmanned bus.

4. A teenager pulled a man out of a truck hanging over a cliff.


A truck and trailer careened over the edge of a cliff in the dead of night. The cab of the large truck creaked as it stopped, and began to dangle dangerously over the gorge below. The truck driver was trapped inside. The young man came to his aid, broke the window and pulled the driver to safety with his bare hands. This is not a scene from an action movie, but a real event that happened 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 a crash. Without thinking about his own safety, he climbed onto the balancing truck, jumped into the narrow gap between the cab and the trailer, and broke the rear window of the driver's cab. He carefully 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 actions.

3. A soldier riddled with bullets 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 eponymous fictional character saved several of his fellow soldiers, even after he suffered 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.

In 1966, while under siege by the enemy, Ingram continued to fight and save his comrades after he was hit by three bullets - one in the head, which left him partially blind and deaf in one ear, a second in the arm, and a third bit into his left knee. Despite his wounds, Ingram continued to kill North Vietnamese soldiers who were leading an attack on 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 by performing incredible feats.

2. World champion swimmer saved 20 people from a sinking trolleybus


Aquaman is no comparison to Shavarsh Karapetyan, who saved 20 people from drowning in a trolleybus that fell into the water in 1976. The 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 race with his brother when he witnessed a trolleybus with 92 passengers slide 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 pull 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 lost consciousness in the cold, murky water. Of all the people he pulled out of the trolleybus in this short time, 20 people survived. However, Karapetyan’s heroic work did not end there. Eight years later, he ran into a burning building and pulled 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 maintained that he was not a hero and only did what he had to do.

1. A man took off a helicopter to save his employee.

A TV show set became a real-life drama when a helicopter from the hit TV series Magnum PI crashed into a drainage ditch in 1988. While preparing for a soft landing, the helicopter suddenly tilted, went out of control and fell to the ground, all of which was captured on film. One of the show's pilots, Steve Kux, was trapped under a helicopter in shallow water. In an incredible moment straight out of Man of Steel, Warren "Tiny" Everal ran up and lifted the helicopter off of Kax. The helicopter was a Hughes 500D, and the helicopter weighs at least 703 kilograms when unloaded.

Tiny's quick reactions and superhuman strength saved Cax from the weight of the helicopter that pinned him to the water, which could have crushed 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.

Introduction

This short article contains only a drop of information about the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. In fact, there are a huge number of heroes and collecting all the information about these people and their exploits is a titanic work and it is already a little beyond the scope of our project. However, we decided to start with 5 heroes - many have heard about some of them, a little less information about others and few people know about them, especially the younger generation.

Victory in the Great Patriotic War was achieved by the Soviet people thanks to their incredible effort, dedication, ingenuity and self-sacrifice. This is especially clearly revealed in the heroes of the war, who performed incredible feats on the battlefield and beyond. These great people should be known to everyone who is grateful to their fathers and grandfathers for the opportunity to live in peace and tranquility.

Viktor Vasilievich Talalikhin

The story of Viktor Vasilyevich begins with the small village of Teplovka, located in the Saratov province. Here he was born in the fall of 1918. His parents were simple workers. After graduating from college, which specialized in producing workers for factories and factories, he himself worked at a meat processing plant and at the same time attended a flying club. Afterwards he graduated from one of the few pilot schools in Borisoglebsk. He took part in the conflict between our country and Finland, where he received a baptism of fire. During the period of confrontation between the USSR and Finland, Talalikhin carried out about five dozen combat missions, while destroying several enemy aircraft, as a result of which he was awarded the honorary Order of the Red Star in the forties for special successes and the completion of assigned tasks.

Viktor Vasilyevich distinguished himself with heroic feats already during the battles in the great war for our people. Although he was credited with about sixty combat missions, the main battle took place on August 6, 1941 in the skies over Moscow. As part of a small air group, Victor flew out on an I-16 to repel an enemy air attack on the capital of the USSR. At an altitude of several kilometers, he met a German He-111 bomber. Talalikhin fired several machine-gun bursts at him, but the German plane skillfully dodged them. Then Viktor Vasilyevich, through a cunning maneuver and subsequent shots from a machine gun, hit one of the bomber’s engines, but this did not help stop the “German”. To the chagrin of the Russian pilot, after unsuccessful attempts to stop the bomber, there were no live cartridges left, and Talalikhin decides to ram. For this ram he was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.

During the war there were many such cases, but as fate would have it, Talalikhin became the first who decided to ram, neglecting his own safety, in our skies. He died in October 1941 with the rank of squadron commander, while performing another combat mission.

Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub

In the village of Obrazhievka, the future hero, Ivan Kozhedub, was born into a family of simple peasants. After graduating from school in 1934, he entered the Chemical Technology College. The Shostka Aero Club was the first place where Kozhedub acquired flying skills. Then in 1940 he enlisted in the army. In the same year, he successfully entered and graduated from the military aviation school in the city of Chuguev.

Ivan Nikitovich took direct part in the Great Patriotic War. He has more than a hundred air battles to his name, during which he shot down 62 aircraft. Of the large number of combat sorties, two main ones can be distinguished - a battle with an Me-262 fighter with a jet engine, and an attack on a group of FW-190 bombers.

The battle with the Me-262 jet fighter took place in mid-February 1945. On this day, Ivan Nikitovich, together with his partner Dmitry Tatarenko, flew out on La-7 planes to hunt. After a short search, they came across a low-flying plane. He flew along the river from Frankfurt an der Oder. As they got closer, the pilots discovered that it was a new generation Me-262 aircraft. But this did not discourage the pilots from attacking an enemy plane. Then Kozhedub decided to attack on a collision course, since this was the only opportunity to destroy the enemy. During the attack, the wingman fired a short burst from a machine gun ahead of schedule, which could have confused all the cards. But to the surprise of Ivan Nikitovich, such an outburst by Dmitry Tatarenko had a positive effect. The German pilot turned around in such a way that he ended up in Kozhedub’s sights. All he had to do was pull the trigger and destroy the enemy. Which is what he did.

Ivan Nikitovich performed his second heroic feat in mid-April 1945 in the area of ​​the capital of Germany. Again, together with Titarenko, carrying out another combat mission, they discovered a group of FW-190 bombers with full combat kits. Kozhedub immediately reported this to the command post, but without waiting for reinforcements, he began an attack maneuver. German pilots saw two Soviet planes take off and disappear into the clouds, but they did not attach any importance to this. Then the Russian pilots decided to attack. Kozhedub descended to the Germans' flight altitude and began shooting them, and Titarenko from a higher altitude fired in short bursts in different directions, trying to create the impression on the enemy of the presence of a large number of Soviet fighters. The German pilots believed at first, but after several minutes of battle their doubts were dispelled, and they moved on to active action to destroy the enemy. Kozhedub was on the verge of death in this battle, but his friend saved him. When Ivan Nikitovich tried to get away from the German fighter that was pursuing him and was in the firing position of the Soviet fighter, Titarenko, with a short burst, got ahead of the German pilot and destroyed the enemy aircraft. Soon a reinforcement group arrived, and the German group of aircraft was destroyed.

During the war, Kozhedub was twice recognized as a Hero of the Soviet Union and was elevated to the rank of marshal of Soviet aviation.

Dmitry Romanovich Ovcharenko

The soldier’s homeland is a village with the telling name Ovcharovo, Kharkov province. He was born into the family of a carpenter in 1919. His father taught him all the intricacies of his craft, which later played an important role in the fate of the hero. Ovcharenko studied at school for only five years, then went to work on a collective farm. He was drafted into the army in 1939. I met the first days of the war, as befits a soldier, on the front line. After a short service, he received minor damage, which, unfortunately for the soldier, became the reason for his transfer from the main unit to service at an ammunition depot. It was this position that became key for Dmitry Romanovich, in which he accomplished his feat.

It all happened in the middle of the summer of 1941 in the area of ​​​​the village of Pestsa. Ovcharenko was carrying out orders from his superiors to deliver ammunition and food to a military unit located several kilometers from the village. He came across two trucks with fifty German soldiers and three officers. They surrounded him, took away his rifle and began interrogating him. But the Soviet soldier was not taken aback and, taking the ax lying next to him, cut off the head of one of the officers. While the Germans were discouraged, he took three grenades from a dead officer and threw them towards the German vehicles. These throws were extremely successful: 21 soldiers were killed on the spot, and Ovcharenko finished off the remaining ones with an ax, including the second officer who was trying to escape. The third officer still managed to escape. But even here the Soviet soldier was not at a loss. He collected all the documents, maps, records and machine guns and took them to the General Staff, while bringing ammunition and food on time. At first they did not believe him that he alone had dealt with an entire platoon of the enemy, but after a detailed study of the battle site, all doubts were dispelled.

Thanks to the heroic deed of soldier Ovcharenko, he was recognized as a Hero of the Soviet Union, and he also received one of the most significant orders - the Order of Lenin along with the Gold Star medal. He did not live to see victory for only three months. The wound received in the battles for Hungary in January was fatal for the fighter. At that time he was a machine gunner in the 389th Infantry Regiment. He went down in history as a soldier with an axe.

Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya

Zoya Anatolyevna’s homeland is the village of Osina-Gai, located in the Tambov region. She was born on September 8, 1923 into a Christian family. As fate would have it, Zoya spent her childhood in dark wanderings around the country. So, in 1925, the family was forced to move to Siberia to avoid persecution by the state. A year later they moved to Moscow, where her father died in 1933. Orphaned Zoya begins to have health problems that prevent her from studying. In the fall of 1941, Kosmodemyanskaya joined the ranks of intelligence officers and saboteurs on the Western Front. In a short time, Zoya completed combat training and began to carry out her assigned tasks.

She accomplished her heroic feat in the village of Petrishchevo. By order, Zoya and a group of fighters were instructed to burn a dozen settlements, including the village of Petrishchevo. On the night of November twenty-eighth, Zoya and her comrades made their way to the village and came under fire, as a result of which the group broke up and Kosmodemyanskaya had to act alone. After spending the night in the forest, early in the morning she set out to complete the task. Zoya managed to set fire to three houses and escape unnoticed. But when she decided to return again and finish what she started, villagers were already waiting for her, who, seeing the saboteur, immediately informed the German soldiers. Kosmodemyanskaya was captured and tortured for a long time. They tried to extract information from her about the unit in which she served and her name. Zoya refused and didn’t say anything, and when asked what her name was, she called herself Tanya. The Germans felt that they could not get more information and hung it up in public. Zoya met her death with dignity, and her last words went down in history forever. Dying, she said that our people number one hundred and seventy million people, and they cannot be outweighed in all. So, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya died heroically.

Mentions of Zoya are associated primarily with the name “Tanya”, under which she went down in history. She is also a Hero of the Soviet Union. Her distinctive feature is that she is the first woman to receive this honorary title posthumously.

Alexey Tikhonovich Sevastyanov

This hero was the son of a simple cavalryman, a native of the Tver region, and was born in the winter of 1917 in the small village of Kholm. After graduating from technical school in Kalinin, he entered the military aviation school. Sevastyanov finished it successfully in 1939. In more than a hundred combat sorties, he destroyed four enemy aircraft, of which two each personally and in a group, as well as one balloon.

He received the title of Hero of the Soviet Union posthumously. The most important sorties for Alexei Tikhonovich were battles in the skies over the Leningrad region. So, on November 4, 1941, Sevastyanov patrolled the skies over the Northern capital in his IL-153 aircraft. And just while he was on duty, the Germans carried out a raid. The artillery could not cope with the onslaught and Alexei Tikhonovich had to join the battle. The German He-111 aircraft managed to keep away the Soviet fighter for a long time. After two unsuccessful attacks, Sevastyanov made a third attempt, but when the time came to pull the trigger and destroy the enemy with a short burst, the Soviet pilot discovered a lack of ammunition. Without thinking twice, he decides to go for the ram. A Soviet plane pierced the tail of an enemy bomber with its propeller. For Sevastyanov, this maneuver turned out well, but for the Germans it all ended in captivity.

The second significant flight and the last for the hero was an air battle in the skies over Ladoga. Alexey Tikhonovich died in an unequal battle with the enemy on April 23, 1942.

Conclusion

As we have already said in this article, not all the heroes of the war are collected; there are about eleven thousand of them in total (according to official data). Among them are Russians, Kazakhs, Ukrainians, Belarusians, and all other nations of our multinational state. There are those who did not receive the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, having committed an equally important act, but due to a coincidence of circumstances, information about them was lost. There was a lot in the war: desertion of soldiers, betrayal, death, and much more, but the most important thing was the exploits of such heroes. Thanks to them, victory was won in the Great Patriotic War.

Every day in Russia, ordinary citizens perform feats and do not pass by when someone needs help. A country should know its heroes, so this selection is dedicated to brave, caring people who have proven by deeds that heroism has a place in our lives.

1. An unusual incident with a miraculous rescue occurred in the city of Lesnoy. A 26-year-old engineer named Vladimir Startsev saved a two-year-old girl who fell from a fourth-floor balcony.

“I was returning from the sports ground, where I was training with children. “I saw some kind of pandemonium,” Startsev recalls. “People under the balcony were fussing, shouting something, waving their arms. I raise my head up, and there is a little girl, with her last strength, grabbing onto the outer edge of the balcony.” Here, according to Vladimir, he developed the climber’s syndrome. Moreover, the athlete has been practicing sambo and rock climbing for many years. My physical form allowed it. He assessed the situation and intended to climb the wall to the fourth floor.
“I’m already prepared to jump onto the first floor balcony, I look up, and the child is flying down! I instantly regrouped and relaxed my muscles to catch it. We were taught this way during training,” says Vladimir Startsev. “She landed right in my arms, cried, of course, she was scared.”

2. It happened on August 15th. That day, my sister and nephews and I came to the river to swim. Everything was fine - heat, sun, water. Then my sister says to me: “Lesha, look, a man has drowned, there, he’s floating past. The drowned man was carried away by the fast current, and I had to run about 350 meters until I caught up with him. And our river is mountainous, there are cobblestones, while I was running, I fell several times, but I got up and continued running, and barely caught up.


The drowned man turned out to be a child. The face shows all the signs of a drowned person - an unnaturally swollen belly, a bluish-black body, swollen veins. I didn't even understand if it was a boy or a girl. He pulled the child ashore and began pouring water out of him. The stomach, the lungs - everything was filled with water, the tongue kept sinking. I asked the people standing nearby for a towel. No one served, they were disdainful, they were afraid of the girl’s appearance, and they spared their beautiful towels for her. And I'm wearing nothing but swimming trunks. Due to the fast running, and while I was pulling her out of the water, I was exhausted, there was not enough air for artificial respiration.
About resuscitation
Thank God, my colleague, nurse Olga, was passing by, but she was on the other side. She started screaming for me to bring the child to her shore. The child, who swallowed water, became incredibly heavy. The men responded to the request to take the girl to the other side. There Olga and I continued all resuscitation efforts. They drained the water as best they could, did cardiac massage, artificial respiration, for 15-20 minutes there was no reaction, neither from the girl nor from the onlookers standing nearby. I asked to call an ambulance, no one called, and the ambulance station was nearby, 150 meters away. Olga and I couldn’t afford to be distracted even for a second, so we couldn’t even call. After some time, a boy was found and he ran to call for help. In the meantime, we were all trying to revive a little girl, five years old. Out of despair, Olga even began to cry; it seemed that there was no hope. Everyone around said, stop these useless attempts, you will break all her ribs, why are you mocking the dead man. But then the girl sighed, and the nurse who came running heard the sounds of a heartbeat.

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


... On the day when a fire broke out on the outskirts of the village, twin brothers Andryusha and Vasya and five-year-old Nastya were alone at home. Mom left for work. Dima was returning from school when he noticed flames in the neighbors' windows. The boy looked inside - the curtains were on fire, and three-year-old Vasya was sleeping next to him on the bed. Of course, the schoolboy could have called the rescue service, but without hesitation, he rushed to save the kids himself.

4. A young 17-year-old girl from Zarechny, Marina Safarova, became a real hero. The girl used a sheet to pull the fishermen, her brother, and the snowmobile out of the hole.


Before the onset of spring, the young people decided to visit the Sursky Reservoir, in the Penza region, for the last time, and after that “give up” until next year, since the ice is no longer as reliable as a month ago. Without going far, the guys left the car on the shore, and they themselves moved 40 meters from the edge and drilled holes. While her brother was fishing, the girl drew sketches of the landscape, and after a couple of hours she froze and went to the car to warm up, and at the same time warm up the engine.

Under the weight of the motorized equipment, the ice could not stand it and broke in the places where the holes were drilled, like after a hammer drill. People began to drown, the snowmobile hung on the edge of the ice by its ski, this entire structure threatened to break off completely, then people would have had very little chance of salvation. The men clung with all their strength to the edge of the ice hole, but their warm clothes immediately got wet and literally pulled them to the bottom. In this situation, Marina did not think about the possible danger and rushed to the rescue.
Having grabbed her brother, the girl, however, was unable to help him in any way, since the ratio of the forces of our heroine and the superior mass turned out to be too unequal. Run for help? But not a single living soul is visible in the area, only a company of the same fishermen can be seen on the horizon. Go to the city for help?
So while time passes, people may simply drown from hypothermia. Thinking like this, Marina intuitively ran to the car. Having opened the trunk in search of an item that could help in the situation, the girl drew attention to the bag of bed linen that she had taken from the laundry. - The first thing that came to mind was to twist a rope out of sheets, tie it to the car and try to pull them out. – Marinochka remembers
The pile of laundry was enough for almost 30 meters, it could have been longer, but the girl tied the improvised cable with double calculation.
“I’ve never braided braids so quickly,” the rescuer laughs, “in about three minutes I braided about thirty meters, this is a record.” The girl risked driving the remaining distance to the people on the ice.
- Near the shore it is still very strong, I slid onto the ice and slowly drove backwards. She opened the door just in case and drove off. The cable made from the sheets turned out to be so strong that in the end they pulled out not only people, but also a snowmobile. After the rescue operation was completed, the men took off their clothes and climbed into the car.
- I don’t even have a license yet, I took it, but I’ll get it only in a month, when I turn 18. While I was driving them home, I was worried that traffic cops would suddenly come across me, and I would have no license, although in theory they would have let me go, or helped me take everyone home.

5. Little hero of Buryatia - this is how 5-year-old Danila Zaitsev was dubbed in the republic. This little boy saved his older sister Valya from death. When the girl fell into the wormwood, her brother held her for a whole half hour so that the current would not drag Valya under the ice.


When the boy’s hands were cold and tired, he grabbed his sister’s hood with his teeth and did not let go until his neighbor, 15-year-old Ivan Zhamyanov, came to the rescue. The teenager was able to pull Valya out of the water and carried the exhausted and frozen girl in his arms to his home. There the child was wrapped in a blanket and given hot tea.

Having learned about this story, the leadership of the local school turned to the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations with a request to reward both boys for their heroic deed.

6. 35-year-old resident of Uralsk Rinat Fardiev was repairing his car when he suddenly heard a loud knock. Running to the scene of the incident, he saw a sinking car and, without thinking twice, rushed into the icy water and began to pull out the victims.


“At the scene of the accident, I saw the confused driver and passengers of the VAZ, who in the darkness could not understand where the car they crashed into had gone. Then I followed the tracks of the wheels down and found the Audi upside down in the river. I immediately entered the water and began to pull people out of the car. First I took out the driver and the passenger who was sitting in the front seat, and then the two passengers in the back seat. They were already unconscious at that time.”
Unfortunately, one of the people saved by Rinat did not survive - a 34-year-old passenger in the Audi died from hypothermia. Other victims were hospitalized and have now been discharged. Rinat himself works as a driver and does not see any special heroism in his action. “Even at the scene of the accident, the traffic cops told me that they would decide on my promotion. But from the very beginning I did not seek publicity or receive any awards; the main thing is that I managed to save people,” he said.

7. A Saratovite who pulled two little boys out of the water: “I thought that I didn’t know how to swim. But when I heard the screams, I immediately forgot about everything.”


The screams were heard by a local resident, 26-year-old Vadim Prodan. Running up to the concrete slabs, he saw Ilya drowning. The boy was 20 meters from the shore. The man, without wasting time, rushed to save the boy. In order to pull the child out, Vadim had to dive several times - but when Ilya appeared from under the water, he was still conscious. On the shore, the boy told Vadim about his friend, who was no longer visible.

The man returned to the water and swam towards the reeds. He began to dive and look for the child, but he was nowhere to be seen. And suddenly Vadim felt his hand catch on something - diving again, he found Misha. Grabbing him by the hair, the man pulled the boy ashore, where he performed artificial respiration. A few minutes later Misha regained consciousness. A little later, Ilya and Misha were taken to the Ozinsk Central Hospital.
“I always thought to myself that I didn’t know how to swim, just to stay on the water a little,” Vadim admits, “But as soon as I heard the screams, I immediately forgot about everything, and there was no fear, there was only one thought in my head - I need to help.
While rescuing the boys, Vadim hit a piece of reinforcement lying in the water and suffered a leg injury. Later at the hospital he received several stitches.

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


While heading home, they saw a building on fire. Running into the yard, the schoolchildren saw that the veranda was almost completely engulfed in fire. Roman and Mikhail rushed into the barn to get a tool. Grabbing a sledgehammer and an ax, breaking out the window, Roman climbed into the window opening. An elderly woman was sleeping in a smoky room. They managed to get the victim out only after breaking the door.

9. And 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 he had only seen chest compressions in movies.

10. In Mordovia, veteran of the Chechen war Marat Zinatullin distinguished himself by saving an elderly man from a burning apartment.


Having witnessed the fire, Marat acted like a professional firefighter. He climbed up the fence onto a small barn, and from there climbed onto the balcony. He broke the glass, opened the door leading from the balcony to the room, and got inside. The 70-year-old owner of the apartment was lying on the floor. The pensioner, who was poisoned by smoke, could not leave the apartment on his own. Marat, opening the front door from the inside, carried the owner of the house into the entrance.

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


Entering the entrance of his house, he immediately identified the apartment from which the smell of smoke was coming. The door was opened by a drunk man who assured that everything was fine. However, Roman called the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The rescuers who arrived at the scene of the fire were unable to enter the premises through the door, and the uniform of an Emergencies Ministry employee prevented them from entering the apartment through the narrow window frame. Then Roman climbed up the fire escape, entered the apartment and pulled out an elderly woman and an unconscious man from a heavily smoky apartment.

12. Resident of the village of Yurmash (Bashkortostan) Rafit Shamsutdinov saved two children in a fire.


Fellow villager Rafita lit the stove and, leaving two children - a three-year-old girl and a one-and-a-half-year-old son, went to school with the older children. Rafit Shamsutdinov noticed smoke from the burning house. Despite the abundance of smoke, he managed to enter the burning room and take out the children.

13. Dagestani Arsen Fitzulaev prevented a disaster at a gas station in Kaspiysk. Only later did Arsen realize that he was actually risking his life.


An explosion unexpectedly occurred at one of the gas stations within the boundaries of Kaspiysk. As it turned out later, a foreign car driving at high speed crashed into a gas tank and knocked down the valve. A minute of delay, and the fire would have spread to nearby tanks with flammable fuel. In such a scenario, casualties could not be avoided. However, the situation was radically changed by a modest gas station worker, who, through skillful actions, prevented the disaster and reduced its scale to a burnt-out car and several damaged cars.

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


78-year-old Valentina Nikitina fell into a well and could not get out on her own. Andrei Ibronov and Nikita Sabitov heard the cries for help and immediately rushed to save the elderly woman. However, three more guys had to be called in for help - Andrei Navruz, Vladislav Kozyrev and Artem Voronin. Together the guys managed to pull an elderly pensioner out of the well. “I tried to climb out, the well is shallow - I even reached the edge with my hand. But it was so slippery and cold that I couldn’t grab the hoop. And when I raised my arms, ice water poured into my sleeves. I screamed, called for help, but the well is located far from residential buildings and roads, so no one heard me. How long this lasted, I don’t even know... Soon I began to feel sleepy, with the last of my strength I raised my head and suddenly saw two boys looking into the well!” – said the victim.

15. In Bashkiria, a first-grader saved a three-year-old child from icy water.


When Nikita Baranov from the village of Tashkinovo, Krasnokamsk region, accomplished his feat, he was only seven. Once, while playing with friends on the street, a first-grader heard a child crying coming from a trench. They installed gas in the village: the dug holes were filled with water, and three-year-old Dima fell into one of them. There were no builders or other adults nearby, so Nikita himself pulled the choking boy to the surface

16. A man in the Moscow region saved his 11-month-old son from death by cutting the boy’s throat and inserting the base of a fountain pen there so that the choking baby could breathe.


An 11-month-old baby's tongue sunk and he stopped breathing. The father, realizing that seconds were counting, took a kitchen knife, made an incision in his son’s throat and inserted a tube into it that he had made from a pen.

17. Shielded my brother from bullets. The story took place at the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.


In Ingushetia, it is customary for children to congratulate friends and relatives in their homes at this time. Zalina Arsanova and her younger brother were leaving the entrance when shots were heard. In a neighboring yard, an attempt was made on one of the FSB officers. When the first bullet pierced the facade of the nearest house, the girl realized that it was shooting, and her younger brother was 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. Surgeons had to assemble the internal organs of a 12-year-old child literally piece by piece. Luckily everyone survived

18. Students of the Iskitim branch of the Novosibirsk Assembly College - 17-year-old Nikita Miller and 20-year-old Vlad Volkov - became real heroes of the Siberian town.


Of course: the guys captured an armed robber who was trying to rob a grocery kiosk.

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


In the village of Shithala, Urvan district of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, a residential building caught fire. Even before the firefighters arrived, the entire neighborhood came running to the house. No one dared to enter the burning room. Twenty-year-old Beslan Taov, having learned that there was a child left in the house, without hesitation, rushed to his aid. Having previously doused himself with water, he entered the burning house and a few minutes later came out with the baby in his arms. The boy named Tamerlan was unconscious; in a few minutes he could not be saved. Thanks to the heroism of Beslan, the child remained alive.

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


A resident of St. Petersburg, Igor Sivtsov, was driving a car when he saw a drowning man in the waters of the Neva. Igor immediately called the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and then attempted to save the drowning girl on his own.
Bypassing the traffic jam, he came as close as possible to the parapet of the embankment, where the drowning woman was carried by the current. As it turned out, the woman did not want to be saved; she tried to take her own life by jumping from the Volodarsky Bridge. After talking with the girl, Igor convinced her to swim to the shore, where he managed to pull her out. After that, he turned on all the heaters in his car and sat the victim down to warm up until the ambulance arrived.

Hero of Russia is the highest title given for services to the state and people associated with the accomplishment of a heroic deed. This section contains information about the heroes of Russia and gives a description of some of their feats. The Hero of the Russian Federation is awarded a sign of special distinction - the Gold Star medal. The total number of known awards of the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (as of July 10, 2018) is 1099 people, of which 479 Heroes were awarded the title posthumously. Lists of citizens awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation and most Presidential Decrees on conferring the title of Hero are not officially published. The exact number of titles awarded remains unknown due to the secrecy of many awards, which often leads to errors and contradictions in media publications on this topic.

List of heroes of Russia, exploits, photos and videos

Below are the names and brief descriptions of some Heroes of the Russian Federation by year of their award

1992 - 10 people

Plotnikova Marina Vladimirovna(1974-1991) - the youngest Hero of the Russian Federation, the first woman - Hero of the Russian Federation (1992, posthumously). At the cost of her own life, Marina saved three drowning children. June 30, 1991 was a hot day - two younger sisters Zhanna and Lena and their friend Natasha were swimming in the river, but suddenly Natasha Vorobyova moved a little further from the shore and, finding herself in the depths, began to drown. Marina, who saw this, rushed after her and pushed her towards the coastal bushes. Turning back, she saw that her two sisters, frightened for her, also rushed after her. Caught in a whirlpool, Zhanna and Lena began to drown. The girl managed to save them, but she herself, having spent all her strength, died. At the cost of her life, a 17-year-old girl saved the lives of three girls.

1993 - 55 people

Zaitsev Anatoly Grigorievich(born 1945) - Soviet and Russian submarine officer, captain 1st rank. Commander of an experienced ultra-deep-sea nuclear submarine. For courage and heroism shown while performing a special task in conditions involving risk to life, he was awarded the title of Hero of Russia

1994 - 39 people

Kozlov Oleg Anatolievich(born 1972) – military man, sniper. On the night of August 18-19, 1994, a detachment of Mujahideen tried to break through the outpost (Tajik border) and began shelling it. At a time when the main efforts of the border guards-paratroopers were concentrated on the right flank, the left flank of the main defense remained open, which created the threat of encirclement by the enemy. Having assessed the situation, Kozlov decided to cover the left flank of the defense. Having taken a convenient position, he conducted sniper fire at enemy firing points with virtually no cover, destroyed an RPG crew, two snipers, and suppressed a machine gun crew. By his actions, Private Oleg Kozlov prevented the enemy from breaking through to the left flank of the defense. By Decree of the President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin, Private Oleg Anatolyevich Kozlov was awarded the title of Hero of Russia.

1995 - 146 people

Lelyukh Igor Viktorovich(1967 - 1995) - captain, group commander of the 67th separate special forces brigade of the GRU General Staff. On January 1, 1995, during the assault on Grozny during the First Chechen War, units of the 131st brigade were surrounded in the area of ​​the railway station. The units suffered heavy losses in manpower, lost almost all their armored vehicles and could not escape from the city on their own. The command assigned Captain Lelyukh's reconnaissance group the task of breaking through the encirclement as soon as possible and facilitating the brigade's exit from the city. Igor Lelyukh objected that without the support of armored vehicles by the forces of one reconnaissance group, the task was impossible, but the objections were rejected due to the catastrophic situation of the brigade and the lack of any other reserves. The reconnaissance group managed to break through the encirclement and approach the brigade's positions. But soon the reserves of the Dudayevites were brought up, and the decision was made to retreat. Igor Lelyukh was seriously wounded and remained to cover the retreat of the fighters. For 30 minutes he held off the militants with machine gun fire and grenades, after which he was wounded a second time and shot at point-blank range while unconscious. For courage and heroism shown in the performance of military duty, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation of December 7, 1995, Captain Lelyukh Igor Viktorovich was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously)

1996 - 128 people

Alexander Vasilievich Margelov (1945-2016) On January 23, 1976, for the first time in world practice, a BMD-1 (combat tracked amphibious vehicle) was parachuted and soft-landed using a parachute-rocket system, also with two crew members on board - Major Alexander Vasilyevich Margelov and Lieutenant Colonel Leonid Ivanovich Shcherbakov. The landing was carried out at great risk to life, without personal means of rescue. Landing equipment with a crew on jet systems made it possible to bring airborne divisions into battle not in seven days, as before, but in 22 minutes. This became a serious trump card during the Cold War. For his feat, Alexander Margelov was awarded the Gold Star of the Hero of the Soviet Union. Twenty years later, for the feat of the seventies, both were awarded the title of Hero of Russia.

1997 - 49 people

Evgeniy Nikolaevich Parchinsky(1946 - 2012) – railway worker, diesel locomotive driver.
On October 6, 1996, at 11:25 a.m., as a result of deliberate criminal actions of an unknown person, the TEM2-595 diesel locomotive was set in motion; After making sure that the locomotive was picking up speed, the attacker jumped off. When the dispatcher raised the alarm, the distance between the trains was only two kilometers. There was no time to think. Alexander and his assistant stopped their train, uncoupled the locomotive and made the only right decision: use the locomotive as a battering ram, drive towards the freight train and take the hit themselves. This was the only way to save the passengers. The uncontrollable diesel locomotive was moving, as calculations showed, at a speed of 120 km/h. As a result of the collision, both locomotives cannot be restored. The driver and his assistant survived, having received minor injuries. The train passengers (more than 200 people) were not injured; a possible explosion of a nearby oil pipeline was prevented. For courage and heroism shown in an extreme situation to prevent a passenger train crash, he was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation with the Golden Star medal.

1998 - 46 people

Andrey Nikolaevich Rozhkov(1961-1998) - Russian rescuer, mountaineer. He took part in many search and rescue operations in Russia and abroad, participated in the operation to deliver humanitarian aid during the war in Bosnia, in the search for helicopter pilots who died during the Georgian-Abkhaz war in the area of ​​the Kodori River, and evacuated the sick during the first Chechen war and wounded from Grozny, rescued exhibits of the local museum. He led a ski group during the exercises of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations at the North Pole. Andrei Rozhkov died on April 22, 1998 while diving into the waters of the Arctic Ocean while testing new rescue diving equipment. On June 30, 1998, for the courage and heroism shown during testing of new rescue diving equipment, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation.

1999 - 68 people

Irina Yurievna Yanina(1966-1999) – nurse, sergeant. On August 31, 1999, during the cleansing of the village of Karamakhi (Dagestan), Irina Yanina, as part of an evacuation group, provided assistance to wounded soldiers. At the risk of her life she provided assistance to 15 wounded people. Three times she drove an armored personnel carrier directly to the line of fire, from where she took out another 28 wounded soldiers of the federal forces. During the fourth sortie, the enemy launched a counterattack and Yanina, having organized the loading of the wounded, covered the operation with machine gun fire. During the retreat, the armored personnel carrier was hit by two grenades, resulting in a strong fire. Irina Yanina helped the wounded get out of the burning car. Thanks to her, captain A.L. Krivtsov, privates S.V. Golnev and I.A. Lyadov were saved. Irina herself did not have time to leave the burning car. She left behind a son.

2000 - 176 people

Alexey Viktorovich Galkin(born 1970) - GRU officer, participant in the Chechen war. In 1996-2002 he served in the North Caucasus Military District. Alexey Galkin repeatedly participated in counter-terrorism operations, acting as part of a strictly classified reconnaissance group, and in the fall of 1999 he was captured by Basayev himself. It’s better not to remember what the officer suffered in captivity. Galkin himself told his friends what happened: he prayed to God that when shelling militant bases, his shell would hit the place of his imprisonment. However, fate decreed otherwise. The courageous intelligence officer, who went through all the circles of Chechen hell, managed to escape with weapons in his hands. After escaping from captivity, Basayev and Khattab, who was still alive, promised a million dollars for Galkin’s head. The GRU officer was a very strong trump card for them, and they really planned to take him to London for some political intrigue. In the fall of 2002, A.V. Galkin’s reconnaissance group, during a special operation, captured important documents that confirmed the involvement of international terrorism in the activities of separatist gangs in Chechnya.

2001 - 28 people

Sergey Alexandrovich Shreiner(1979 - 2000) - senior sergeant of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On May 26, 1997 he was called up for military service. During all his years of service, he served in Chechnya and was awarded five commendations for conscientiously fulfilling his duty to the Fatherland on the Dagestan-Chechen border. After completing his military service, he remained to serve under a contract. He was the owner of a maroon beret. On July 14, 2000, during a military operation, he covered a grenade thrown by militants with his body and thereby saved the life of the commander and several colleagues. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Russia.

2002 - 31 people

2003 - 32 people

2004 - 35 people

2005 - 23 people

2006 - 15 people

2007 - 16 people

2008 - 41 people

2009 - 20 people

2010 - 18 people

2011 - 10 people

2012 - 16 people

2013 - 7 people

2014 - 13 people

2015 - 5 people

2016 - 21 people

2017 - 11 people

2018 - 4 people

Roman Nikolaevich Filipov(1984-2018) - Russian military pilot, deputy squadron commander.
Filipov was an ace pilot of attack aircraft, repeatedly took part in the All-Russian military maneuvers “Aviadarts”, where in 2013 he took second place among attack aircraft. On February 3, 2018, while flying over the Idlib de-escalation zone (Syria) to monitor the ceasefire, the leading Russian Su-25SM attack aircraft in a pair, under the control of Major Filipov, near the city of Serakib was shot down by a shot from a MANPADS. The pilot tried to keep the plane in the air and reported that he was attacked by a missile, after which he ejected. On the ground, the pilot was surrounded by militants and died in the ensuing battle: while firing back from the attackers with a Stechkin pistol, he was seriously wounded, and then blew himself up with a grenade with the words “This is for the boys!”