How cold the winter in Russia is, a little common sense of the small partners should know, after all, the coldest place in the world is in Russia.
In the Russian Far East, a snowstorm hit a small town with almost zero visibility and a sharp drop in temperature.
Viktoria Zarubina, a 10-year-old girl, lost her way home from school and was too late to see the girl return, and her distraught mother, Tatyana, called the police.
Due to deteriorating weather and extremely low temperatures, the local government called on volunteers to help with the search and rescue, and dozens of people participated in the search and rescue operation.
The head of the Sakhalin Island branch of the National Centre for Missing and Injured Children said: "We have to help the people of Uglegorsk, but the weather conditions make the search extremely difficult and the task is more difficult than we thought. ”
Search and rescue teams searched all the yards, houses and alleys in the area, while shouting the name of the missing girl and asking local residents if they had seen a little girl.
Eventually, after a night of searching, the team got valuable information from a local who remembered seeing a girl playing with a stray dog near a shelter in the yard of an apartment building.
At about 7:30 the next day, more than 18 hours after the little girl had disappeared, the search and rescue team found the little girl under a low balcony, holding the puppy in her arms tightly and snuggling together to keep each other warm.
According to the police, the temperature the night before was as low as minus 11 degrees Celsius, and the search and rescue personnel had no hope that the little girl was still alive.
Volunteers from the search and rescue team said: "It is a miracle that this girl is still alive in such weather. ”
"We searched all night and couldn't see anything at all, even if we were wearing mittens, our hands were still cold and we couldn't straighten themselves at all."
"By the next morning, we thought the little girl wouldn't survive."
It is reported that the little girl was found with some frostbite on her body, but fortunately, the mattress under the balcony shielded her from the wind and snow, and the stray dog also provided her with warmth.
Olesya Voznyuk, an officer on the Commission of Inquiry, said: "She and the dog hid under the balcony and this girl loves animals very much and often plays with the local dog. ”
"After school, she went to feed the dogs as usual, but was trapped by a blizzard and strong winds."
Tatyana was relieved to learn of her daughter's finding, and the mother and daughter were reunited in the hospital.
But officials say the stray dog who saved the little girl is gone...
"I hope that stray dogs can also have a warm home and shelter them from the wind and rain..."