Reports from Russia’s far east state that a 10-year-old girl who went missing after school survived the night by huddling with a stray dog.

Uglegorsk, Sakhalin, saw a massive influx of volunteers on January 13 when Viktoria Zarubina went missing at 1 p.m. When the girl didn’t return home, Tatyana, her mother, called the police.

Missing Girl Survives Blizzard By Hugging Stray Dog

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The village, located some 170 miles northwest of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, the island’s administrative core, had received snow drifts up to 2 feet in depth as a result of the storm. As the weather worsened to the point of total darkness, authorities appealed to the community for help in the search.

Evgenia Tuchkova, director of the Sakhalin office of the National Center for Missing and Injured Children, told Komsolmolskaya Pravda, “We must support our people in Uglegorsk.” “Things were as awful as you can possibly imagine.”

The search party went door-to-door in the neighbourhood, asking neighbours whether they had seen the missing girl and if they had heard her name being called. In the morning, after a long night of looking, the team got a break when a local said she’d seen a girl with a stray dog near a shelter in the yard of an apartment complex.

More than 18 Hours After she Disappeared, The Child and the Cat were Found Sitting on a Mattress Underneath a Low Balcony.

The area had not frozen over, and the balcony offered shelter from the storm. Her home was just around 500 yards away. She was appropriately attired for the cold weather, as the temperature was just a mild minus 5 degrees Celsius (23 degrees Fahrenheit).

According to Komsolmolskaya Pravda, she huddled up with the dog as night fell because she was scared of the approaching storm. Anatoly Ivanov, a volunteer on the search team, told a magazine, “The fact that the girl lived in such conditions is absolutely a miracle.” The girl was taken to the hospital and released the next day.

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He elaborated, “We stared all night, nothing was visible, our hands in mittens were so cold it was impossible to straighten our fingers. “We started to worry that she wouldn’t be found the next morning. “How are you going to survive outside in this nightmare?”