Russian channels and newspapers described a 15-year-old boy named Islam as a true hero. "Islam" is a Russian Muslim boy, an eighth-grade middle school student, who was working part-time as an assistant in the concert hall.

When the shooting started, he rushed to help people and take them out of the hall through an emergency exit. The pioneers of the virtual world in Russia and the Arab world praised the boy Islam's courage, his quick action, and his saving the lives of nearly 100 people.