They ate resin and fried mice: a pensioner with his dog wandered through the taiga for three weeks

For a Krasnoyarsk pensioner, a walk with a dog turned into an extreme adventure that almost cost him his life. After getting lost in the area of a country village, a man for 18 days, accompanied by a bull terrier, wandered through the inhospitable autumn taiga, looking for berries, mushrooms, and mice for his four-legged friend.

Source: Lenta

In early October, Viktor Vinogradov, a 65-year-old resident of Krasnoyarsk, went with his dog to a dacha outside the city and disappeared. The neighbors could not provide any useful information about the missing person, and his phone was not answered. Relatives, local residents, volunteers, police and even rescuers with quadrocopters participated in the search for Victor — no results of the event were brought, although more than 100 square kilometers of forest were combed.

From October 3 to October 17, the search continued, and then the daughter of the missing person announced the completion of the operation. Now only police officers, known for their diligence in such matters, were looking for Victor. On October 21, when there was not the slightest hope for a successful outcome, the pensioner unexpectedly called his family from an unfamiliar number and reported that he had been found.

Viktor Vinogradov and his faithful friend bull terrier Thor went out for a walk in the evening, turned the wrong way and spent 18 days and nights in the Krasnoyarsk taiga, eating foot food. For himself, Victor was looking for mushrooms, berries and tree resin, and for the dog he had to catch mice and fry them on a fire.

In the middle of autumn, forests in Western Siberia cease to be hospitable — there is practically no plant food, and there are serious frosts at night. The dog Thor helped Vinogradov survive the cold nights — the pensioner slept snuggling up to the dog in an improvised hut made of branches, which he built every evening.

Participants of the rescue operation

We must pay tribute to the man — he never sat idly by, waiting for a miraculous rescue. All three weeks Vinogradov, together with the dog, moved through the forest, trying to find his way home. During one of these day trips, the forest Robinson met a mushroom picker, from whose phone the relatives were notified about the happy ending. A casual acquaintance also showed the direction to the village of Kuskun, where exhausted Vinogradov and Thor appeared before the surprised locals.