Today in Bugulma on the eve of Victory Day, EMERCOM employees of the South-Eastern Tatarstan laid flowers to the stele of a firefighter, a hero of the Soviet Union, Gazinur Gafiatullin, who closed the enemy machine gun by his chest during the war and saved hundreds of lives of his comrades. For heroic feat in the fight against the Nazi invaders Sergeant Gafiatullin was awarded with the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star Medal.