“When a living baby was found ... Before that, I reported to President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin:“ Frost -30 ° C, everything is covered up. Most likely, there are no living ones. ” And the fact that we found Vanya is just a miracle, ”Zinichev said in an interview with kp.ru.

According to him, the president was extremely gathered these days, and he received the message about the child’s salvation with relief, noting: "but there are still living people."

“I answered him: a miracle!” Said the head of the Ministry of Emergencies.

In February, Zinichev awarded Petr Gritsenko, the head of the emergency response and rescue operations department in the emergency zone of the Leader Center, who saved the boy Vanya Fokin from under the rubble of the house in Magnitogorsk.

The baby spent more than 30 hours under the rubble. On February 15, Fokin and his mother returned home to the Chelyabinsk region after treatment at the Moscow Research Institute of Emergency Pediatric Surgery and Traumatology.

On December 31, 2018, in Magnitogorsk, the collapse of the ceilings occurred in one of the entrances of a multi-storey residential building due to an explosion of domestic gas. As a result of the accident, 39 people died.