Putin awarded a medal to a schoolgirl from the Tomsk region who saved children from a fire.

Russian President Vladimir Putin awarded the medal "For the Rescue of the dead" to schoolgirl Victoria Grebenkova, who saved her sisters and brothers from a house fire in the Tomsk region. The decree appeared on March 25 on the official Internet portal of legal information.

"For courageous and decisive actions in rescuing people in extreme conditions, to award the medal "For the Rescue of the dead" to Victoria Alekseevna Grebenkova, a student of the municipal budgetary educational institution Komsomol Secondary school of Pervomaisky district of the Tomsk region," the document says.

During a house fire in the village of Komsomolskoye, which occurred in April 2024, a schoolgirl helped her siblings get out of a burning building. She saved five children between the ages of 1.5 and 13.

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Earlier, on February 11, Putin posthumously awarded the medal "For the Rescue of the Dead" to Artyom Zherdev, an 18-year-old teenager from the Kursk region, who died trying to pull a drowning comrade out of the water.