He Was a Top Athlete, Then He Saved 20 People From the Lake. It Ended His Career

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SHAVARSH Vladimirovich Karapetyan, an Armenian swimmer and world champion in underwater swimming with fins, became a legend on September 16, 1976 when he saved the lives of passengers from a sunken trolleybus in Yerevan, the then capital of the Armenian SSR.

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Savarsh Vladimirovich Karapetyan was born on May 19, 1953, in the Soviet Union, in the third largest city of Armenia, Kirovakan (now Vanadzor). His family moved to Yerevan in 1964, where the young man attended a vocational school for car mechanics after completing eight grades. On the advice of his family and friends, he started swimming at a young age, later switching to a more specialized discipline, fin and diving. He became a legend in his s…