In Kuban, a schoolboy got lost at an orienteering competition; they have been searching for him for two days
Last Sunday, October 22, hundreds of schoolchildren came to Goryachy Klyuch from different parts of Kuban. The children, together with their teachers, arrived at an orienteering competition. Everything went well, but when the tournament ended, the organizers were missing two people. The boy and girl, having gone into the forest with compasses and maps, did not return.
The teachers immediately reported the incident to the Ministry of Emergency Situations and began looking for the children. It was getting dark outside and a heavy downpour and thunderstorm began. However, the teachers and rescuers did not give up - meter by meter they combed the forest thicket, breaking branches on their way, calling the children by name. Soon a girl responded to the teachers’ cries.
It turned out that the schoolgirl did not reach the finish line by only a few meters. The girl mixed up the directions and went in the opposite direction. She walked through the forest for several hundred meters and realized that she was lost. Then the schoolgirl stopped and began to wait for help, - Alexander Dabaghyan, chief orienteering specialist at the Center for Tourism and Excursions, told Komsomolskaya Pravda - Kuban.
- About 200 people are still looking for 12-year-old Alexey Shmakov from the Tuapse region, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory explained to Komsomolskaya Pravda - Kuban. - These are trained police officers, investigators, criminologists, rescuers, military personnel, and volunteers also joined the search.
They have already examined more than three kilometers - the entire territory of the sports camp. Experts assure that if the boy was still within the boundaries of the competition route, he would definitely be found. In addition, the tournament organizers found out that Lesha did not reach the finish line by only 300 meters. The child probably lost his way and went in the opposite direction.
If you have seen or know where Shmakov is now, immediately inform the police, the search engines ask. - Signs of a boy: height 150-160 centimeters, thick build, blond hair, brown eyes. Alexey was wearing jeans, a green T-shirt, an orange sweatshirt with a hood, and gray sneakers with green laces. The boy has a map and a compass with him.
Employees of the aviation detachment of the Russian Guard were involved in the search for the child.
During the search for a 12-year-old teenager, AOSN specialists use an unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a daytime and thermal imaging camera, the press service of the department told Komsomolskaya Pravda - Kuban.
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The Investigative Committee began an investigation into this case.
Based on this fact, the investigative department organized a pre-investigation check. Specialists are working on the spot, the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory told Komsomolskaya Pravda - Kuban.
Acting Minister of Education of the Krasnodar Territory Konstantin Fedorenko also left for Goryachy Klyuch on the morning of October 23.
It is planned to create a commission from the ministry to study this fact and organize work to interact with the Ministry of Emergency Situations to search for the child, the department’s press service reported.
Rescuers found a 12-year-old boy who disappeared near Goryachiy Klyuch
More than 200 people were looking for the child who disappeared under Goryachiy Klyuch.
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On the evening of Monday, October 23, 12-year-old Alexei Shmakov, who had been lost the day before under Goryachiy Klyuch, came out to the search group. Currently, the child has already been delivered to Goryachy Klyuch, a source in the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations told Yugopolis.
Yugopolis previously reported that on the evening of October 22 during an orienteering competition. Based on this fact, the Belorechensk Interdistrict Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Territory organized a pre-investigation check.
According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory, in the evening the search for two lost schoolchildren began here. At 18.06 one of them was discovered and taken out of the forest. To search for the second boy, 6th grade student from Tuapse Alyosha Shmakov, groups were created that included more than 200 people. These are police officers, military personnel, professional rescuers, Cossacks, and volunteers. Hunters and experienced tourists are also involved in the search operation. A helicopter was involved, as well as an unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a daytime and thermal imaging camera.
More than 200 people were looking for the boy who disappeared near Goryachiy Klyuch. To carry out the search operation, on behalf of the governor, groups were created and an operational headquarters was organized under the leadership of First Vice-Governor Andrei Alekseenko.
In the Goryachy Klyuch area, 12-year-old Alexey Shmakov was found late the night before, who took part in orienteering competitions and disappeared on the afternoon of October 22. The teenager did not leave the route to the control point at 14.30 on Sunday; the search for the boy began at about half past five in the evening of the same day. About 300 people were looking for the child; a helicopter and unmanned aerial vehicles were involved in the search. The Investigative Committee is conducting a pre-investigation check around the region; in Goryachiy Klyuch, on behalf of the governor, a headquarters was organized under the leadership of First Vice-Governor Andrei Alekseenko.
In the Goryacheklyuchevsky district of Kuban, a 12-year-old schoolboy was found who was lost in the forest near the village of Saratovskaya during an orienteering competition. “The boy is alive and feeling well. He came out to the Cossacks who were patrolling the area near the village of Kaluzhskaya in the Seversky district, he was taken to Goryachiy Klyuch, to the central district hospital,” the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the region reported.
The disappearance of Alexey Shmakov, born in 2005, was reported at 17:10 on October 22 from the dispatch service of Goryachy Klyuch. According to the city administration, the boy, along with his classmates and his aunt, came from Tuapse to an orienteering competition. The children set off on the route around lunchtime. Alexey passed the first four points, but at 14:30 he failed to reach the fifth.
“Two teenagers got lost - he and a girl. The girl had a phone with her, they found her and found her at the beginning of seven in the evening. Alexey did not have a phone with him,” Ekaterina Manashan, press secretary of the Goryachiy Klyuch administration, told Kommersant-Kuban, adding that the child disappeared in the area of the Voensovkhoz village.
As the municipal administration explained, the competition was organized by the regional Ministry of Education, 20 teams, a total of 350 children from different regions of the region, took part in them.
“The organizers reported the child missing late. The message that he went off the route and did not check in at the control point appeared already around 17:00 in the evening - it was just starting to get dark and it started to rain,” said representatives of the Goryachy Klyuch administration. From Molkino ( military unit near Goryachiy Klyuch) 60 military personnel were immediately sent to search, then they were joined by rescuers, Cossacks, and volunteers. “In total, 292 people and 40 pieces of equipment took part in the search work from the RSChS system. The Mi-8 helicopter of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, as well as an unmanned aerial vehicle of the Russian Guard, equipped with a daytime and thermal imaging camera, were involved in search and rescue operations. The situation was under the control of the Central Control Department of the Main Directorate of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry for the Krasnodar Territory,” the press service of the region’s Emergency Situations Ministry reported.
“Employees were warned railway, checked everything commuter trains, railway routes, directions were sent to all heads of rural settlements in case a child came out of the forest and came across some kind of housing, so that the authorities would be immediately informed. Volunteers constantly arrived to carry out search work,” the Goryachy Klyuch administration clarified.
To conduct a search operation, on behalf of Kuban Governor Veniamin Kondratyev, groups were created and an operational headquarters was organized under the leadership of First Vice-Governor Andrei Alekseenko. “Groups of more than 200 people were created to search for the boy. These are police officers, military personnel, professional rescuers, Cossacks, and volunteers. Hunters and experienced tourists were also involved in the search operation,” the press service of the regional administration reported.
Based on this fact, the Belorechensk Interdistrict Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of the Territory organized a pre-investigation check.
According to the president of the regional alpine club "Stremlenie" Oleg Afanasyev, there was no doubt about the successful completion of the search operation. “At night the air temperature was about ten degrees above zero, this is not the temperature at which you can freeze. The boy takes part in orienteering competitions, which means he has some, at least minimal, experience of surviving in the forest,” explained Mr. Afanasyev, adding that it is not uncommon for children to wander in the mountains, in the forest for three days, and they were found in normal condition.
The 12-year-old teenager was involved in the rescue of emergency situations workers, police, Cossacks, military and volunteers. The Kuban 24 film crew worked on site all day. The latest details are in the material of correspondent Pavel Kuznetsov.
On a small map there is a huge area of 40 hectares, which had to be combed as quickly as possible. The teenager has been in the forest for more than a day. Without food, water and completely alone. The Goryachy Klyuch area is always crowded, there are a lot of settlements, however, no one saw or heard from him for 24 hours.
“Our search area, it turns out, is limited by federal highways: one to Novorossiysk, the second to Dzhubga. And the Kaluzhskaya - Psekups forest - Molkino training ground. We are conducting searches in this area,” he said. O. Minister of Civil Defense and Emergency Situations of the Krasnodar Territory Sergei Kapustin.
An operational headquarters was established on the spot. Rescuers, police, military and volunteers were looking for the boy. Helicopters were circling in the sky. The Ministry of Defense allocated combat vehicles with thermal imagers on board. The search did not stop the night before, although it was pouring rain. And this caused concern to the headquarters.
“Immediate response teams drove along the M4 road, warning cafe and hotel owners who are on the highway. Everyone was warned, orientations were distributed, information was also broadcast on television and on the Internet,” said the head of the Goryachy Klyuch Civil Defense and Emergency Situations Sergei Krikunov.
Regional orienteering competitions “Autumn Trail” are held in the region regularly and not for the first time near the village of Saratovskaya.
“There was an offer to all municipalities to participate. 19 municipalities and 351 children took part. The age of the children is from 12 to 17 years. We notified all interested services from the municipality to law enforcement agencies,” noted acting. O. Minister of Education, Science and Youth Policy of the Krasnodar Territory Konstantin Fedorenko.
Previously, such precedents had not happened at regional competitions, but this time there were two at once. At first they were looking for two teenagers. A schoolgirl from the Tbilisi region also did not reach the finish line. The organizers of the competition began to comb the forest on their own, but when it got dark, they turned to specialists. The girl was found using a mobile phone signal.
“She was found almost 800 m from the route. She got scared and didn’t react to contact until a rescuer reached her and touched her shoulder,” said the head of Goryachiy Klyuch, Ivan Fedorovsky.
But Alexey Shmakov had neither a mobile phone nor matches to light a fire. The competition lasted only a few hours.
Orienteering competitions were held using maps. They marked 20 control points that the athletes had to pass. Alexey Shmakov completed four of them and then disappeared. This is a children's competition, and the distances between control points are small - maybe a couple of hundred meters. And the territory chosen by the organizers for the competition is surrounded on all sides by roads. Why the child was able to go so far is still unclear.
As a result, the student was able to cover more than 20 km in one day. In the Seversky region, a military helicopter spotted him from the sky and reported information to the operational headquarters.
The missing child has already been handed over to his parents. The boy was examined by doctors; the teenager’s life is not in danger.
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