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Braslav schoolgirl showed resourcefulness when border guards detained state border violators.
At the festive 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 an eighth-grader, Darya Rykhtar, with a letter of thanks from the command of the Polotsk Border Detachment.
The Rykhtar family was returning to the city from their dacha. Near the public parking lot, they noticed a large group of people of Eastern appearance. Next to them was a car with domestic license plates. The border area is not a place for 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 view.
Alexey managed to detain several fugitives. Upon the Rykhtars' call, a border detail arrived at the border commandant's office, to whom the suspicious individuals were handed over for further proceedings. It remained unclear only 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.