How it was №1 27.11.2002 (2002)

Video footage: an avalanche in the mountains.

The program reconstructs the events of 1989. In November, a group of students from sports universities in the Krasnodar Territory were on a training hike in the mountains of the Sochi region.

Contrary to weather forecasts, an avalanche occurred.

Eleven people were buried under the snow.

Emergencies Ministry teams took part in the search operation, which lasted several days.

Nine people were rescued.

Two died.

One of the students, after leaving the hospital, went to work for the Sochi rescue squad.

Yuri Otkydach explains the task that was set for the students who were carrying out the reporting category transition.

All participants were registered with the Emergencies Ministry, in the route and collection commission.

The weather conditions were satisfactory.

The length of the route was 120 kilometers.

The first three days passed easily for the participants.

Then the weather conditions changed.

The weather worsened.

Denis Nosyrev says that the weather soon improved, so they decided to continue the route.

Yuri Otkydach was the first to see an avalanche.

He explains the types of avalanches that exist.

In 1998, there was a "field" avalanche.

Its peculiarity is its silent approach.

Denis Nosyrev was one of those who found themselves in the path of the avalanche and was covered with snow.

He talks about how to behave in such cases.

He tells how he got out from under the rubble.

Yuri Otkydach was crushed by the snow cover and was unable to get out on his own.

They talk about his dead comrades.

An interview with Petr Fedin, who talks about the dangers of mountain tourism.

About the necessary precautions.

Fragments of operational footage from the Russian Emergencies Ministry on November 11, 1998. Helicopter flight over the mountainous territory of the Sochi region.

Rescuers landing.

A wounded man is carried on board the helicopter.

Mountaineering equipment is taken away.

Yuri Fomin reconstructs the events of November 11. Tells about the rescue operation, about the everyday life of the employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

Address plan of City Hospital No. 4 in Sochi, where the wounded were taken after the avalanche in 1998. The hospital yard is littered with construction waste.

Igor Nozdrin points out the difficulty of delivering the wounded to the hospital by helicopter.

Therefore, they have to be transferred to ambulances, often losing precious time.