Valentine's Day We Were Buried in Snow: We Would Have Froze, Turned into Polar Bears - Citizen

An extraordinary incident occurred in the Gegharkunik region. On February 14, while serving in the administrative area of Sevan, David Galoyan, an inspector from the 1st platoon of the 4th battalion of the Road Police’s 2nd command, was approached by a young man who reported that he and his friend, along with a tourist from the Russian Federation, were stranded in Sevan's administrative area on an inter-field road.

According to photo journalist Gagik Shamshyan, the road policeman drove his Toyota Corolla alongside the young man to assist in retrieving a Skoda buried in the snow using a special cable, but the frosty inter-field road was so slippery that even the Toyota couldn’t pull the buried car out. The inspector informed his platoon commander Edgar Suslyan, who arrived to help in a Toyota Prado and managed to pull the car back onto the accessible road using the cable.

In an interview with the photo journalist, the driver and his friend expressed, “We had been buried here for over an hour, it felt as if we were in a desert and didn’t know what to do. We had no phone number, no address. We were stranded under the open sky in this frost. It was great that I saw the road police car and approached for help, and people, true to being real Armenians, helped us. We thank the road police and say, ‘The guys really deserve credit!’ If someone else had told this story, I would have thought they were exaggerating, but we felt it ourselves, that the road police stand firm behind citizens in need.” The driver’s friend jokingly added, “On Valentine’s Day, we were buried in the snow and if the guys from the police hadn’t come, we would have frozen and turned into polar bears. It was great that the guys came and gave us a real gift on Valentine’s Day!”