Platon Shein from Stavropol will receive the Tigran Keosayan Award for his feat

RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said that the 15th Tigran Keosayan Prize will be awarded to 12-year-old Platon Shein from Stavropol, who saved two drowning children in Derbent.

A nine-year-old girl and a ten-year-old boy were swept away by the current into the open sea in Derbent. Platon, without hesitation, rushed to help and held the children above the water until rescuers arrived. Platon came to Derbent for sports training. He is a graduate of the Stavropol judo and Sambo club.

Simonyan established the Tigran Keosayan Award after learning about the story of Liya Galeeva and Lyudmila Platonova, educators from Orenburg Buguruslan, who risked their lives to protect children from an inadequate man with a knife.

The award has already been received by two teachers from Buguruslan, the family of a security guard who died in the attack on a college in Anapa, janitor Khairullo Ibadullaev, who saved a child who fell out of a window in St. Petersburg, residents of St. Petersburg who saved a boy who fell out of a tenth-floor window with a jacket, Hero of Russia Sergey Yarashev, who alone for 68 days Abdurakhman Abdurakhmanov, a resident of Makhachkala, who rescued a girl during a flood, held positions in the area of the Grishino settlement in the Red Army direction.

The award was also given to Dagestani residents Khatib Dzhabrailov and Yusup Magomedov, who rescued children during the flood, police lieutenants Alexey Zemerov and Zaur Ramazanov, who rescued four people from a burning house during a fire in Khanty-Mansiysk, Kazan resident Galiya Sitdikova, who rescued a child drowning in the lake, a student from Kansk Kirill Tsarulitsa, who Two children and their mother were rescued from the fire, as well as Alexander Voevoda, a resident of Krasnodar, who neutralized a 19-year-old attacker in a shopping mall.