Biography of Valery Danilov

Say thanks to share in the spring of the year Valery Danilov, immersed in his thoughts, walked by the Akhtuba River. In the distance on the ice, he saw silhouettes - three boys drowned in ice water. Valery rushed to the rescue and was able to save two children. In the year, Valery became the hero of the book “The exploits of ordinary people. Volume 3 ". The team of the “exploits” project tells its story.

The boys were on the river in a fairly secluded place of the city. What is a happy chance that you were there too? A few years before, he moved to St. Petersburg, and came to the small homeland for several months-to see his relatives and “recharge” the southern sun. I was looking for work for this time. But that day I missed an interview and decided to take a walk where there were fewer people.

Passed through the park in the old part of the city. Locals noisily celebrated Shrovetide there. I left the park, went downstairs and got to the outskirts - to a deserted coastal zone. He put on the headphones and turned on the audiobook, not particularly noticing what was happening around. There was absolutely relaxed and immersed in himself, and then suddenly drew attention to the strangely moving silhouettes in the distance - meters from the shore.

Not in the bathing season? It seemed strange, and I decided to come closer. As it turned out, not in vain. It was about a kilometer to the park where people had fun, and one of these children decided to go down to the river and check how thick the ice. At first I did not understand what was happening, but it immediately seemed to me that some kind of misfortune happened ...

I came closer and examined the children in the river. I realized that they were not fooling around, but failed and could not get out without outside help. I did not hear the cries of sinking guys, or because I was in the headphones, or because they were far enough. I'm not sure that they were generally called to the rescue. Apparently, they understood that there was no one.

They had not seen me yet at that moment, and there was no one else there. At first I panicked. Like any other person, walking in such a deserted place in search of solitude, I just did not expect that someone would need to be saved. Fortunately, literally in a moment I switched from that relaxed state to the most assembled, concentrated, "on adrenaline." And yet for a few seconds I hesitated.

What will I do? Can I help or not? Is it necessary or not? Or maybe they themselves? Or maybe someone to call for help? All these thoughts flashed through my head. And then I suddenly realized for myself that I can’t just stand and watch how the guys drown and die. I did not know what to do in such a situation, but I had no doubt that I needed to try to do something. The guys could not notice the children who fell into trouble, but for some reason they immediately believed me and quickly reacted.

I don’t know how old they were. It is unlikely more but they were not confused! They ran to me. They immediately called where to. Thank you very much! Without the help of these guys, everything would be much worse. Then I would have to chase “behind two hares” alone: ​​trying to pull out and call the boys, explain what happened, and what help is required.

I’m not sure that then I would have been able to save at least two ... I can’t call myself a good swimmer. I certainly could not cross the river. But on Akhtub, then there was still ice, albeit spring. Fragile, but ice. And at that moment I decided that the risk was justified, that I can at least try to help. In general, in Plastun, so that the ice does not crack from my weight, I began to get to schoolchildren.

Previously, I found some thick dry branch, then to stretch it sinking, and so that they could grab it. He crawled, began to get the guys, and at first I did not even see that there were three of them. He noticed a jacket then and asked: “What do you have? What about him? What about this boy? Take it too! .. They froze too much and thought only about how to get out. Yes, and apparently it was already too late ...

Perhaps, these guys had an account for minutes, I just ended up there on time. For a long time I blamed myself for not being able to save everyone. I thought: “But if I suddenly reacted somehow differently and acted somehow differently, maybe I could save the third.” But rescuers and doctors reassured me, said that there were very few chances, and when I got to the guys, the third, the third, no longer showed signs of life.

In general, I was able to pull out the first boy easily. The ice was not yet poured with water, because of which it becomes even more slippery, and the child was so scared that he himself did everything possible to get out more.

It was more difficult with the second. He just panicked, and with him this feeling swept me. The boy cried, shouted, tried to get out on the ice, but again slipped ... At some point, the ice cracked under me, and I also failed. And yet we coped! Those teenagers who then called the Ministry of Emergencies and the ambulance, also stopped by the cars. One of the drivers went down to the river.

They also helped me later-they handed some kind of wooden branch, I grabbed, and that second boy we were able to get out on the ice.I quickly handed over the rescued schoolchildren to the first policeman who arrived in order to warm them up, and he returned again to the place from where I pulled them out, hoping to save the third. But then rescuers arrived in time. One of them, in a wetsuit, ducked into the river ...

Well, everything is essentially. My participation on this, as such, ended, because then the police, the ambulance and rescuers were understanding. And then I myself was already shaking from the cold. I went to warm up in the car of the Ministry of Emergencies, and the police asked to linger. Only then did I realize that I had drowned the phone when I pulled the guys, and now I can’t even warn relatives so that they would not be worried.

And then he was left without a single phone, without work, without money, but with two saved lives ... A little later I found out that the rescuer took the third boy, tried to do artificial respiration on the spot then to launch the child’s heart, tried to help him, but no one could help him. Later I found out that the dead boy was the brother of one of the rescued. They were then taken to the hospital.

What happened to them later, I do not know. Neither the boys nor their parents tried to contact me, they did not thank me for saving the lives of children. Well, I didn’t hear this “thank you”, well, now. I think that day, in principle, divided the lives of those families by "before and after." What are the gratitude here? Of course, I don’t remember many details of that day.

A lot of time has passed. But I repeatedly wondered-who is still to blame for that situation. Children who then went on fragile ice? Or is it still adults who could not convey in time how dangerous it is? It seems to me that it is stupid and wrong to blame children for what happened. Probably, it was impossible to leave them then just like this without control.

After this incident, it was helped to help. But this is completely different, and there was no risk for my own life there. For example, I just brought to the house of an elderly man who became ill on the street, and he fell.