News Release
21.01.2010
The night before, the emergency services received a mobile phone call from a schoolgirl from the village of Monetny on the unified telephone "112". 12-year-old Katya pleaded for help: According to the girl, she went for a walk in the woods next to the gas station and got lost. At that time it was already dark. She spent more than one hour and a half in the woods, yet was never able to find her way back home.
Once the police became aware of this incident, Mikhail Borodin, the head the MVD Main Administration for the Oblast, mobilized the staff of the Internal Affairs Department for Berezovsky to the "Summon" signal. The search of the girl involved 78 police officers from virtually all services of the Internal Affairs Department under the supervision of OMVD Chief Konstantin Petrosyan, as well as the local firemen and teachers from the school where Katya studies.
Temporary operational headquarters were set up on the basis of the school. Search groups were formed which carefully checked the forest. The area where the girl had lost was patrolled by the police service cars with sirens and flashing rotating beacons so that Katya could take her bearing to the sound.
A few hours later, success crowned the search of the child. The girl was found two kilometers away from the village by Police Major Andrew Pavlyuchenko, a local police officer of the Internal Affairs Department for Berezovsky. His extensive experience helped the officer during the search - before, Andrew had made six long service trips to the North Caucasus. The Major heard the kid crying, and went straight to the girl.
The first aid cars took the girl to the village hospital. The doctors who examined the little patient came to the conclusion that she does not need a medical care since she had not been injured.
The Juvenile Department officers take measures to prevent similar accidents from happening in the future.
Press Service of Russia's MVD Main Administration for Sverdlovsk Oblast