Russian President Dmitry Medvedev rewarded Tatyana Demina and, posthumously, Vitaliy Morozov with the Order of Courage for saving children at the Yeyskaya sandbar, RIA Novosti-South reports, citing the press-secretary of the president, Natalya Timakova.
While swimming at the Yeyskaya sandbar in the Azov Sea in Kuban on July 7th, six Moscow school students staying at the ‘Azov’ camp drowned, together with their supervisor, due to strong underwater currents. The supervisor tried to save them, but drowned as well. The Russian Ombudsman for Children, Pavel Astakhov, proposed to the president that the supervisor be honoured. The other supervisor, Tatyana Demina, saved two children but failed to save her daughter.
