About the happy ending of the rescue operation, which lasted more than four days. All this time, four-year-old Dima wandered through the windfall and swamps alone, without food or water, without the help of adults. Hundreds of people searched for him - professionals and volunteers, on the ground and from the air, combing meter by meter. Found seven kilometers from the place of disappearance.
He is ready to hug everyone and say thank you to everyone. For my son. Alive and unharmed. But main character here for all search teams - Pavel, he was the first to discover the child.
“I came today at the call of my heart. We drank coffee, got together as a group, and went out with the group,” says Pavel Karpenko.
"Boy! Thank you so much! I am the father! Thank you very much!" - thanks Andrey Peskov.
The first images of the rescued boy. Four-year-old Dima is carried into an ambulance. Frightened, exhausted, he was found barely alive. Usually lively and talkative, but here, not only to strangers, but even to his parents, he could not say a word.
“At first he just mumbled and didn’t talk,” says the boy’s mother, Alevtina Shainurova.
Four days without food or water. There is a swamp all around. The forest is impenetrable. Special equipment, and it is slipping. And there are wild animals all around. You can't go far without a gun. At night the maximum is plus five. It rained periodically. We practically had to sleep in puddles.
“His temperature is normal, but the oxygen in his blood is low, most likely pneumonia, his lungs are all wheezing,” says the doctor.
It's also tick season. The boy cannot be seen among the rescuers and journalists. But those who saw him closer assure: there is no living space on the child. “All covered in ticks,” they say.
An adult could barely survive in such extreme conditions. And here is a child!
“It’s been five days since I’ve been hungry. He ate some kind of pestles and drank water from the swamp. He supported himself, of course. “I ate grass,” says the child’s father, Andrei Peskov.
Over the weekend, the Peskov family vacationed at the Reftinsky reservoir. Dima went with his father to the forest for firewood, but immediately became capricious and asked to see his mother, who remained in the tent, 100 meters from them. Dad let him go, thinking that the parking lot was just a stone's throw away and his son wouldn't get lost. From that moment on, no one saw Dima.
“Over 50 people were questioned as witnesses. Relatives, employees of the kindergarten he attends, as well as fishermen who were on the shore of the reservoir on the day of the boy’s disappearance,” said the assistant to the head of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for Sverdlovsk region Maxim Chalkov.
More than 500 people were looking for the boy. Drones tried to detect him from the air. Divers examined the bottom of the reservoir. Rescuers, police and just volunteers.
We combed the shore along the perimeter. We looked for a place around the tent. The search diameter had to be expanded to four kilometers. As a result, Dima was found much further away.
This is not the only case where a child was actually born wearing a shirt. Seven-year-old Vitya from the Kursk region went to visit his grandmother in a neighboring village, and ended up wandering through the forest for three days. The rescuers were led to him by a mongrel with whom he set off on his journey.
Thanks to the puppy, four-year-old Karina from Yakutia also survived. The dog saved the girl from the cold in the forest for two weeks while they were looking for her.
Dima Peskov will remain in the hospital in the coming days. Doctors say his condition is serious, but his life is not in danger. He will recover from the shock and then be able to tell how he managed to survive.
The living room of the Peskovs' house is littered with toys - cars, robots and plush bunnies are waiting for Dima's return. Doctors and volunteers gave gifts to the 4-year-old boy while he was in the hospital. It was them that Dima’s mother thanked after being discharged from the hospital. The woman noted separately that, according to her, it was he who indicated the exact place where Dima was located.
Alfiya, mother of Dima Peskov:
Dima was discharged from the hospital on the morning of June 29. The boy will recover from chickenpox, which he caught in early June, at home. Dima will have to gain weight - during the forced journey he lost 8 kg (now the boy weighs 19 kg). His appetite has already returned - to the delight of his grandmother and mother, the boy eats for three.
Zoya Shainurova, Dima's grandmother:
Despite the abundance of toys that Dima has not yet had time to unpack, he is already asking to go into nature. As the boy’s father told the site’s correspondent, before his son disappeared, the whole family often went on vacation to the forest and taught Dima survival skills.
Andrey Peskov, Dima's father:
According to Dima's father, the police and guardianship have not yet visited the family. Next week the boy will have a second visit to the doctors - they will check the child's blood for encephalitis.
Let us remind you that 4-year-old Dima Peskov. He and his parents went on vacation to the forest. The family set up a tent, father and son went to collect brushwood for the fire. The boy was tired and asked to see his mother. Then his father let him go, because they had moved a few meters away from the parking lot. But the boy literally got lost in three pines, so much so that he was surrounded by volunteers, rescuers and even a Cossack seer. Early in the morning of June 14, a volunteer discovered an emaciated, sick child. Dima was bitten by ticks and mosquitoes. The boy did not even talk to his parents - a frightened child. to Yekaterinburg, where he spent two and a half weeks.
Despite the experience, the Peskov family is going fishing again as soon as Dima fully recovers from chickenpox. However, this time the parents promise to closely monitor their little son.
Two thousand volunteers, rescuers, police, military, dogs and even a drone. For four days they all tried in vain to find 4-year-old Dima Peskov in the wilderness. And on the fifth day a miracle happened. Experienced search engines cannot give any other name to the fact that the boy was found alive.
“I HAVE COMPLETED AN INCREDIBLE STUPIDITY”
On the morning of Saturday, June 10, Dima, together with his mother (a nanny in a kindergarten) and father (a laborer at a poultry farm), went on a hike. The family pitched a tent, and the father and son went to collect firewood. But soon the boy became bored with collecting branches, and he asked his mother.
I did something incredibly stupid. “I sent Dimka alone,” dad Andrei Peskov lamented in a conversation with Komsomolskaya Pravda. – There we only had to walk about 50 meters. I foolishly thought that my son would get there in a straight line.
But Dima never came out to the tent... The Peskovs tried for three hours to find their son on their own. When they realized that something was wrong, they called the Ministry of Emergency Situations...
RESCUE SCARED BY BEAR
On the second day of searching, the volunteers were frightened by the brown owner of the forest. Mikhailo Ivanovich came out of the windbreak, reared up and growled sternly. Immediately there was talk that it was the bear who dealt with the boy.
Quite a long time has passed since waking up from hibernation. The bear could attack, but not eat the boy, but strangle him and hide him in a den, the forest rangers speculated.
Dima was found a kilometer from the bear's den Photo: Social network
WHY DIDN'T YOU FIND IT EARLIER?
And on the fifth day, Dima was found seven kilometers from his parents’ tent. Despite the fact that 150 square kilometers of forest were surveyed (!). So why wasn't the boy discovered earlier?
We found traces of Dima on the first day of the search,” Sergei Shirobokov, head of the Sokol search team, admitted to KP-Ekaterinburg. - We followed this trail. But they lost him in the swamp area. I was sure that the child was there. But the foresters assured that the boy could not have walked through the swamps. He is already 4 years old. Like, the boy should have guessed that it’s better not to go towards the swamp - you’ll get stuck. Therefore, search teams were sent in the opposite direction. But 4 days led to nothing. Then, at my own peril and risk, I gathered a small group of my employees and still walked through the swamp. And after a few hours we came across a child’s boot print. It was fresh! And an hour later, my employee found the boy.
Pasha serves in the special forces Photo: Social network
The child was found by special forces soldier Pavel Karpenko, who joined the search only in the morning. The guy came on leave from the army and decided to help the rescuers.
“I came across the root of a fallen tree,” explains Pavel. – I looked into the hole from him. And there the boy lies! We started providing first aid and gave him something to drink. They immediately built a stretcher from trees and clothes, and carried Dima out of the swamp.
The boy was carried out on a makeshift stretcher Photo: Four-year-old Dima Peskov, who wandered through the forest near the Reftinsky Reservoir for four days, will be taken to the Yekaterinburg hospital by land, not by air. Earlier, an Mi-8 helicopter from the Kamensk-Uralsky airbase flew for the child. However, the helicopter still came for the child. The pilot said that the boy would be taken to the Regional Clinical Hospital. The child has already been evacuated from the forest. The boy's condition is assessed as serious, but his life is not in danger. Doctors who examined the child diagnosed him with pneumonia. In addition, little Dima is severely emaciated and bitten by ticks. In the near future, the child should be taken by helicopter to one of the hospitals in Yekaterinburg. According to them, the son does not speak, but understands what is said to him. Dima's dad thanked everyone who helped look for his son. The man told who and how found his child. “The investigators suspected that I killed him and buried him,” said Andrei Peskov. The man declined to comment further. The mother and father refused to confirm the information that investigators put pressure on them. Let us remind you that for four days, while they were looking for the boy, the security forces tested the boy’s parents with a lie detector. The mother of the missing child works as a junior teacher in kindergarten. The father has several criminal records. The police were also alerted by the fact that the mother left soon after the child went missing, citing the fact that she felt cold. Only the father remained in place. However, the polygraph confirmed that the boy's father was indeed telling the truth. Investigators continue to investigate the criminal case initiated into the disappearance of four-year-old Dima. Let us remind you that Dima Peskov was lost on June 10th. He came to nature with his parents, who pitched a tent in the forest. The boy went with his dad to get firewood, but after a while he asked to go to the tent and went there alone. Despite the relatively short distance - about ten meters, the child got lost. Late in the evening of June 13, rescuers managed to find fresh traces of the boy. And this morning - himself. About Dima Peskov, who was vacationing with his parents on the shore of the Reftinsky Reservoir, the search engines, who were intensely following the search in different parts of the country, joke that he was born not just in a shirt, but in a whole down jacket. Judge for yourself. Dima’s family was relaxing on the shore of the Reftinsky reservoir. Dima and his dad were fishing, the child became capricious, and dad, without stopping from fishing, sent him to his mother’s tent, which was literally a few meters away from them. But the boy did not reach his mother. First danger.When the special services and volunteers arrived at the search site when called, they immediately had bad feelings. The fact is that the tent stood right next to the water on a prominent cape, surrounded on all sides by a reservoir. In addition, in the forest, which began behind the road (which, as it turned out later, Dima had crossed), there were two serious swamps. When the search begins for a child missing near the water, unfortunately, the worst assumptions often come true. Moreover: water is the biggest danger for children who find themselves in the natural environment. However, naturally, the search and rescue operation was fully launched. The police, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, firefighters, cadets, the local population, and volunteers from the Sokol and Lisa Alert search and rescue teams arrived to search for Dima. Divers and dog handlers worked all four days. And, I must say, the way government services and local residents worked during the search is an amazing example of human concern. Every day about 600 people searched for Dima; representatives of the special services were taken off duty and called back from vacation. The curator of “Lisa Alert-Ekaterinburg” Stanislav Kovalev says that almost the entire Ministry of Emergency Situations stayed overnight during the search after the end of the shift, that many police officers, having completed their task, continued to search for Dima voluntarily, that the local administration at the search site organized a field kitchen and a deputy The head of the administration stood at the distribution of food, and the head of the administration himself walked through the forest with search groups. Stas notes that this is a very important step forward in relation to public services to search for children, because two years ago, in a similar situation of searching for one and a half year old Sasha Zolotina, in the same place, in the Sverdlovsk region, who also disappeared near the big water and was never found, representatives of the police and the Ministry of Emergency Situations worked their shifts and went home. Search engines found children's tracks from time to time, but it could not be reliably stated that they belonged to Dima, because, for example, on the first day of the search, local residents were looking for Dima, and some of them were with children. Second danger.Upon entering the forest, it was immediately discovered that there were many animals in it, and they rightfully felt like masters in it. The searchers saw moose and smaller animals nearby, but what was most alarming were the numerous tracks of bears. Near large cities they do not pose a danger and do not approach people, but in a real forest they may well attack an adult or child. Therefore, each search group went into the forest on a mission, accompanied by a hunter with a gun. Third danger.The longer the search lasted, the less hope remained of finding the child alive. In addition to water and wild animals, there are two more dangers for a person, especially a small or elderly person, in the forest: dehydration and hypothermia. Unfortunately, it is not uncommon for a lost person to die for these reasons a few tens of meters from a populated area. A child who finds himself in the forest without food, drink or warm shelter risks his life, especially in bad weather and at night, when the temperature drops and clothes get wet. Dima Peskov was lucky with the weather - the temperature at night did not drop below ten degrees, and it rained only once - on the night from the third to the fourth day of the search, although it was heavy. Dima, as it turned out later, drank water from puddles and ate grass... On the fifth day of the search, when, it seems, the entire Sverdlovsk region was already cheering and praying for Dima, in the course of expanding the search area, one of the groups set off to carry out the next task. There were eight people in the group, including representatives of the police, the Sokol search and rescue team and the Lisa Alert search and rescue team. During the combing, one of the search participants noticed a boy lying on the ground. At first it seemed to him that the boy was not breathing, and headquarters was informed that he had been found dead, but Dima opened his eyes... The baby was emaciated, exhausted and bitten by ticks, his condition was critical, although he sat down himself, delighting the searchers. According to those who found him, he looked wild: dirty, wet, five ticks on his body... After consultation with headquarters, a decision was made to immediately evacuate. The group that found him made a stretcher and carried the child several kilometers to the nearest country road, where a car was waiting for them. On it, the boy was taken to a clearing, where a helicopter was already waiting for him to be transported to a hospital in Yekaterinburg. After the examination, the doctors said that internal organs the boy is not injured and Dima is no longer in danger. Dima was saved by a miracle and hundreds of caring people. But there are quite simple safety measures that will save the life and health of children and the health of parents. “Lisa Alert” reminds: Whenever you go into the forest with your child, dress him in bright clothes. He should have a whistle hanging around his neck, a fully charged phone in his pocket, and a bottle of water and a candy bar in his backpack. Teach him the main rule of being lost: if you are lost, stop! This is a dangerous illusion that the baby will not go far - four-year-old Dima was found 7 kilometers from the place of his disappearance, and even children less than three years old can go several kilometers away, and searching for a child within a radius of several kilometers can require the actions of hundreds of people and take dozens of precious hours . A child should not go into the forest alone or only with peers. A child in a natural environment should always be in front of adults. A child should never go near water alone, even if he or she is a good swimmer. Teach him that the main offenses in his life are related to safety, and this is one of the worst. If you are hiking or camping in the forest, your child should not leave the camp alone. Children should be supervised when sleeping in the forest. An adult should always be aware if a child leaves the tent and monitor his/her stay outside the tent or his/her return.Press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Sverdlovsk region:
Alfiya, mother of Dima Peskov:
Andrey Peskov, Dima's dad:
Press service of the Investigative Directorate of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk Region:
