A schoolgirl from Braslav assisted border guards in detaining state border violators
At a ceremony at Secondary School No. 1 in Braslav named after Hero of the Soviet Union A. Zhdanov, the commandant of the Opsa border commandant's office, Lieutenant Colonel Maksim Beytyuk, presented eighth-grader Darya Rykhtar with a letter of gratitude from the command of the Polotsk Border Detachment.
The Rykhtar family was returning to the city from their dacha. Near a public parking lot, they noticed a large group of people of Eastern appearance. A car with domestic license plates was parked nearby. The border area is not a place for leisurely strolls. And the head of the family, Alexey, stopped the car to find out who these people were and where they were going. They did not answer and rushed into the forest. The car also hurried to disappear from sight.
Alexey managed to detain several of the fugitives. Following the Rykhtars' call, a border patrol arrived and was handed over the suspicious individuals for further investigation. It remained unclear who was driving the car. But here Darya came to the aid of the border guards. While the adults were busy with their business, she wrote down the vehicle's license plate number.
– My father and the border guards praised me for my quick thinking, – said the schoolgirl. – We are taught to be vigilant in the border area at school, during meetings with representatives of the border detachment. This helped me not to get confused.