In September 1976, the Olympic champion in swimming Shavarsh Karapetyan, together with his brother Kamo, made a training run on the embankment of Yerevan Lake. On their eyes there was an accident: the driver of the trolleybus lost control, and the car fell in the water.
Shavarsh reacted with lightning speed, because people were blocked at a 10-meter depth, and the air in the salon remained only for 15-20 minutes. As a caste rescuer, he dived many times to the bottom of the already cold lake and
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