Among those who were all these days in the area of performance of work there was a junior sergeant Evgeny Streltsov, the commander of the buldoser unit of battalion of mechanization of separate railway crew from Priamurye.
Receding, It should be noted that Evgeny's merits were noted by two awards at once.
One of them, departmental medal of the Russian Defense Ministry to "The participant of liquidation of consequences of emergency situation on the Bureya River", to the junior sergeant Streltsov still there, on the place of performance of work, was handed by the Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation - the chief of the Head military-political department of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation colonel general Andrey Kartapolov.
The second award, the medal of Suvorov, Evgeny will receive on return from vacation to which he left at once after the end of operation on Bureya. The decree on awarding took place quite recently.
The meeting of the author of these lines with the junior sergeant Streltsov took place in day when the long-awaited vacation started. A short interview was taken right during the parking of his train.
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Today Evgeny Streltsov tells calmly about events took place on the Bureya river. Although it is recognized that then there was a lot of unrest. The task was unusual for him and his colleagues. Alarms were brought by both a conditions of the area, and weather, and the nature of works.
Thorough and laconic, Evgeny describes occurring efficiently:
- Our task was to punch the channel in the blockage [natural dam] that there water went. Engineers mined and blew up the ground, and our unit removed [a rocky masses] and cleaned the channel. Terms were compressed...
"There were we in a taiga, far from settlements, - the junior sergeant still remembers. - Cold is terrible ... Do you represent a situation?"
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Engineering equipment, including a bulldozer driven by Eugene, was delivered to the place of work by air - MI-26 helicopters. Streltsov together with his partner, working around the clock, moved thousands of cubic meters of soil. The change in personnel continued for 12 hours...
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By the way, our hero passed soldier's service in the same separate railway crew ...
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As it was already told above, a medal "The participant of liquidation of consequences of emergency situation on the Bureya River" junior sergeant Evgeny Streltsov was handed directly on the place of performance of work. On this unique prize sign (the quantity of such medals is limited) the power plant, the helicopter and the bulldozer are rapped out. That the bulldozer on which the junior sergeant as a part of summary group subdued more than two weeks the obstinate nature [the Bureya River]. A duel with the enemy - bitter colds, heavy rocky soil, sleepless nights - they sustained with honor. ... They having come out from this fight as a winners.
Olga KAPSHTYK
On February 27, 2019" [http://redstar.ru/ukrotiteli-stroptivoj-burei/?utm_source=yxnews&utm_medium=desktop&attempt=1]
The comment.
Tried to find the article about the medal in Wikipedia. Article "Medal "For Difference in Mitigation of Consequences of Emergency Situation"" was found ...
February 28, 2019 22:53
Translation from Russian into English: February 28, 2019 23:41.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Рассказ об интересе к Бурейской теме 28 февраля 2019 г.".