Heroes of "crocus"

"New Evrope" has collected stories about how people helped each other during and after the attack

During the terrorist attack in Crocus City Hall, many people, in spite of everything, helped others quickly evacuate and find exits from the building covered by smoke. Thus, they saved hundreds of people. Some neutrally neutralized terrorists, preserving the lives of the dozens of others.

Novye Europe has gathered the stories of heroes who saved many visitors and Crocus employees, and tells what people are still doing to help the victims.

Hundreds of people brought out of Crocus teenagers 14-15 years old who worked in a wardrobe

The 15-year-old schoolboy and fan of the Moscow Spartak, Islam Khalilov, saved more than a hundred people from the Crocus City City building, indicating them to the street through office premises.

The boy worked part -time at the site with a dressing room. Khalilov
told
The publication MSK1.ru that worked in the concert hall for about a year. At the time of the attack of the terrorists, he heard loud sounds and at first thought that "maybe some noisy company came." But then he saw a large number of people running out of the side of the stairs, and realized that something was wrong.

- I understood that if I do not react, then I will lose my life and the lives of many people. Honestly, it was very scary.

He is unlocked the door to let people out, and led them, through the smoke, through the exhibition to the office premises, and from there to the street,
He wrote
Telegram channel 112.

- I thought that they could leave the stairs or from the escalator, I don’t know, to throw a grenade or open fire for defeat. Thank God nothing happened, I managed to open the door in time and release everyone aside the EXPO.

None of his group was injured. As Khalilov said, they were instructed and showed where to direct people if something happens.

Khalilov has a mother, an eight -year -old brother and a three -year -old sister.

-Mom was in shock, cried due to the fact that I had to endure all this. That all this was before my eyes. I myself, to be honest, in a shock state. Before my eyes, the man was shot, I can’t stop thinking about it.

By
information
“Caution, Moscow”, along with Khalilov, people from Krokus were withdrawn several more teenagers who worked in the wardrobe-this is 14-year-old Artem Donskov, Nikita Ivanov and 14-year-old Artem Filimonov. According to Telegram channel, at the time of shooting, a crowd of people ran to the office premises, but there was a dead end. The boys realized that the audience was trapped, and began to direct everyone to the exits. All teenagers who participated in the evacuation left the building safely.

- I was very scared for people who had a panic, I was very worried about them. It somehow turned on that I should worry about others, help others than myself,

-
told
Filimonov.

When it turned out that Khalilov was rooting for Spartak, Moscow Club
invited
He at a meeting with the players, presented a personalized T -shirt, gifts and a subscription for matches.

The spiritual leader of the Russian Muslims Mufti Ravil Gainutdin March 29
Handing
The boy in the Cathedral Mosque in Moscow Muslims of Russia “For Merit”. Children's Ombudsman Maria Lvova-Belova
I handed it
Gratitude letters to Khalilov and Donskov.

Raper Morgenstern
told
that he sent Khalilov a million rubles. In response, Islam sent him a video self -humanity. The family is going to use these funds to close loans,
Writes
"Rise".

“We have d *** grandmas, we have 40 million rubles a budget, and it is replenished, and we spent only 4 million rubles [to help the victims in the terrorist attack in Crocus],” Morgenstern said.

Crocus employee led several dozen spectators through smoke

Commentator Viktor Gusev
told
That his wife, friend and son, as well as actor Sergei Svetlakov, was saved by the Crocus Sofia, Sofia Meyer.

- The dark -haired employee of Crocus first helped to block the doors of all the lodges that we had already begun to barricado with furniture so as not to let the terrorists there. And then, saying “behind me!”, Drive us out of a narrow corridor through smoke, under the crack of shots, along the stairs to the street the only way to salvation, ”Gusev shared.

By
words
Svetlakova, terrorists entered the auditorium from the side of the amphitheater. There were lodges above him where an actor was sitting with a niece and a friend. Then the shooting began. Many ran to the stage, the actor and other people "raised into a narrow corridor." The manager found the keys and closed the exits from all the lodges. Then people barricaded the entrances.

- There was probably the worst moment - the sounds of shooting were quiet, and through a pause the door to the corridor, opposite which we were with my friend and my niece Masha, began to hack. Probably, everyone in the corridor said goodbye to life, because we did not know how many terrorists and what a plan they had. The door was demolished quickly - it turned out to be spectators, running people were looking for a way out, ”said Svetlakov.

A man saved a woman with firearms

"Layout"
Found
Visitor of Crocus Eugene, who saved a woman with serious wounds.

On the day of the attack, he went with his son to training in gymnastics in Crocus City Hall. When they drove away from the building, shooting began.

- I saw how people dragging a woman dragging. We took her. <...>

A woman of about 40–45, very strong, she did not lose consciousness, and we talked while we were driving to the substation.

<...> She had four gunshot wounds: in both legs and in the groin. There was a lot of blood.

According to Eugene, a year ago he graduated from first aid courses for bullet and fragmentation wounds. Therefore, he stopped the car almost immediately, closed it and put an anesthetic. Then they went to the ambulance station in Strogino. As a result, everything is in order with a woman, she was stabilized in a hospital in Kuntsevo

The man with his own hand disarmed the terrorist

An unknown man neutralized the attacker in the concert hall,
Reported
Baza telegram channel eyewitnesses. Then he gave anonymous
interview
The TV channel Russia 24 and said that he saw four militants. Three terrorists, he said, went on the underwear, while the fourth was in another part of the hall.

- I saw him near the partition. Just before that, he in cold blood shot people. I looked at my wife, saw wild horror in her eyes and realized that I had to do something,

- said the man.

While the terrorist reloaded the weapon, the man jumped on him, took away the machine gun, filled him and hit with his butt.

- And at that moment another man of a large complexion ran up to me, also inflicted a couple more powerful blows. And we cut him out, ”he added.

Thanks to this, several dozen people were able to leave through the reserve exit. Head of the IC of Russia Alexander Bastrykin
instructed
Present a man to a departmental reward.

The man saved the life of his girlfriend, closing her from the automatic queue

25-year-old wheelchair user Maxim Verbenin was at a concert with his girlfriend Natalya. From birth, he was diagnosed with SMA - spinal muscle atrophy, he is deprived of the opportunity to walk. The girl could not take Verbenin from the building due to the lack of ramps on the evacuation staircase.

On this staircase, one of the terrorists began to shoot. A man with his body
Closed
Natalia from the automatic queue.

- Before her eyes he was shot, and then there was a fire. And this is all before her eyes. They could not ... went to the exit. There was a staircase without a ramp, so they could not go down,

- said the mother of the deceased Alena.

When the girl realized that Verbenin was dead, she crawled out of her body. After that, a fire began in the building. Now the girl is in a state of moderate severity: she has 12% body burns, the right side, back, arms, legs are burned.

People helped to evacuate to a woman with a child-handler

Visitor of the concert Anna
told
RBC, that the audience helped her to lower the stroller with a disabled child from the stairs during the evacuation. According to her, a few minutes before the concert, shooting and screams began, people ran. He and the child were on the second floor, immediately realized that this was a terrorist attack, and hid behind the column.

- At first we were looking for a place to hide, but could not. Then people ran towards the stairs, and we are with them. By speakerphone, it was announced that the concert was canceled for technical reasons, a request to leave the building, not to use the elevator. I have a baby stroller, at first I wanted to run along an empty staircase, but I saw a girl’s corpse below. Then we went down another stairs, and there people helped us go down. Without a stroller, we would not run away, ”she said.

The man was able to escape, but returned to the building and helped rescuers

A resident of Odintsovo, 41-year-old Ilya Krasnikov, was able to get out of Crocus during the attack, but then returned, since his friends remained inside. Together with rescuers, he helped the rest of the visitors to evacuate.

- We had dinner, discussed urgent problems and at 19:50 we began to go down on the elevator to the first floor, where there was an entrance to the concert hall. They went down, and when the elevator doors began to open, shots were heard. They were with different frequencies, then single, then a queue, all this sounded like a salute - -
told
man msk1.ru.

According to him, there was an evacuation exit near which he left the building. The man passed 100-150 meters, but found that his friends were not nearby, and decided to return.

“I began to return against the stream, saw a wounded girl, helped convey her to the feldsher point,” Krasnikov said.

There were many people with wounds, and had to knock out the doors to release them.

- On the ground floor, the doors were blocked. There was smoke, and people could not leave the building. Therefore, we knocked out the doors, walked ahead. I was a little poisoned with carbon monoxide gases, beat off my hands, the hospital also said that I had a bruise of the chest, ”he said.

The guard saved a hundred people, guarding the doors from terrorists

The 47-year-old Krokus guard Alexei Osanushkov did not leave the post and saved people, indicating to the visitors where to run.

- Thanks to the guard who organized the evacuation. There was a strong smoke in the basement. There was a group around 20 people, a guard came for us and took us from there, - -
told
One of the victims of Izvestia.

Aleksey came across a group of frightened and breathing smoke people who were hiding below in office rooms. Soon the smoke got there.

The guard decided to withdraw people. All visitors were in shock, but Osanushkov managed to calm them down and bring them to a safe place.

- They held the door while there were shots, held the door so that they [terrorists] did not [burst]. The guys who took everyone out, and they shot at the entrance to the hall themselves, already shot in the hall. We waited for this time so that they would not shoot my people. And only then he began to withdraw, - -
declared
Security guard.

According to Osanushkov, he managed to evacuate more than a hundred people.

One of the visitors to the hall saved dozens of people using an ax

How
told
Tatyana, who came to Crocus that day, she heard explosions and screams, rising up on the escalator, and immediately realized that these were people who "go to kill."

When Tatyana was inside, in the hall behind the closed doors, she immediately fell to the floor, hiding behind the seats from automatic bursts. Then people began to move towards the doors, and no one pushed each other and everyone asked not to create a crush.

In the corridor, she saw a guard at the reserve exit, who took people away from the place of shooting.

- And there was a man who found a fire ax and broke the door. We went into technical rooms, and he went upstairs, looking for where you could cut the ceiling or floor. Because he was very confident with this ax, it became easier for me that he was with us, ”she said.

People all the weekend donated blood for the victims

In Moscow and the Moscow Region, people the next morning after the attack lined up in line to donate blood for the victims. For the first hour of work centers in the suburbs, as
They said
In the Ministry of Health of the region, more than 600 donors donated blood. As a result in the suburbs, donors by evening Saturday
passed
Almost a ton of blood.

In the metropolitan depot
They said
That more than 2 thousand Muscovites expressed their readiness to donate blood for the victims.

Mosgortrans
Highlighted
14 buses so that all donors can wait for their turn in the warmth. In the queue for donation, employees are "delicious and point"
They distributed
People are tea, and couriers “kitchens in the area” are rolls. The "scooter" also provided donors in line with food and drinks.

Journalist Valery Ratnikova
Published
Video from the Ramenskaya City Hospital, where the blood transfusion station is located. According to her, up to 400 people came to the place. A man standing in line said that he was waiting for blood donation for three and a half hours.

Tajik public organization "Nur"
supported
People who donate blood for the victims after the terrorist attack turned tents with hot tea next to the donor center.

Total blood collection points in Moscow and the Moscow Region over the weekend
Visit
About 7 thousand donors. According to doctors, this blood is enough not only to victims with complex burn wounds, but to all patients of medical facilities for the next four to six months.

Musicians offered assistance to the victims of the terrorist attack in Crocus

The Picnic group, before the concert of which there was a terrorist attack in Crocus, said that she would not cancel the performance in St. Petersburg, scheduled for March 27, and will devote it to the memory of the dead. The collected money will be sent to the victims and families of victims.

Morgenstern
promised
To the victims to close all their medical costs if they write to him in a telegram-boot and describe in detail the situation with confirmations.

“If you have lost your own person or breadwinner of the family, we are also ready to help in the near future, but the victims are priority - those who need help right now,” Morgenstern said.

In addition, singer Anna Asti, through the Fenix ​​charity foundation, transferred 1 million rubles to the aid of the people who died and suffered in Crocus City Hall,
reported
In the Instagram of the organization. The performer transferred funds to the Russian Red Cross.

How
declared
Yaroslav Dronov (Shaman), he is ready to pay for the funeral of each "innocently deceased", as well as the treatment and rehabilitation of every victim. Singer Yegor Creed
told
that he transferred 1 million rubles to help the wounded, also about it
reported
Instasamka (Daria Zoteeva).

Initiatives of banks and companies

Large Russian airlines, including
Aeroflot
,
"Victory"
,
S7
And
Ural Airlines
, promised to exchange or arrange a return for tickets for flights from 22 to March 24, if the trip was canceled due to terrorist attacks. In S7
They said
that the relatives and friends of the victims to Moscow and back will be transported for free. The Victory Airline also promised to transfer the relatives of the dead and the victims of the attack for free. Domodedovo airport will provide free services “We will meet for you” and “Spend for you” to the relatives and friends of the victims.

Following the airlines of Russian Railways, she reported that she was ready to transport the relatives of the victims for free and themselves from Moscow or to Moscow. The company is ready to accept the victims of the Russian Railways Medicine network in their rehabilitation centers in their rehabilitation centers.

Yandex Taxi on the night of March 22
Made
Free all trips from the Crocus City Hall area. Passengers who paid for trips promised to return the money.

Moscow bars "All your friends" and "wide to wide"
They said
that they will list their current revenue in full in the collection of the “Red Cross” to help the victims. In other cities, the establishments also donate revenues - “hot”, TT Bistro, “beauty” in Nizhny Novgorod; Antonio Family in Borovichi; "Polyana Group" in Samara.

Tinkoff banks, Alfa-Bank, VTB and Sovcombank promised to write off debts on loans to the dead and injured in a terrorist attack. The Home Bank said that they would also write off debts to the relatives of the victims.

Sberbank stated that "loans will be settled." Other banks, such as Gazprombank, Promsvyazbank, Rosselkhozbank and Rosbank, also promised to help in one form or another. However, specific conditions need to be clarified by the organizations themselves. Bank of Russia
Recommended
For all creditors, forgive the debts of the dead and help the victims.

"Yandex Poster"
reported
that he will return the money for tickets for the performance of the Picnic group, and also issue a refund for tickets for other concerts in Crocus. Cinema networks
"Moskino"
, "Cinema Park",
"Cinema Formula"
,
"Karo"
And
"Kinomax"
They also promised to cancel the sessions and return the money for the purchased tickets.