Kyzyl resident Denis Smygalin has undergone in Novosibirsk a unique operation throughout which a rubber bullet has been removed from his head. It was delicately done through the nasal hole by surgeon Mihail Melnikov. Denis was brought to Novosibirsk after a direct shot has beaten his eye out and got stuck deep in the head. Kyzyl doctors could do nothing about it and decided to bring him to Novosibirsk when the wound began rotting. Melnikov says Denis is twice lucky: first when he stayed alive after a lethal shot, second after an operation in which chances to survive through stand at 5 % only.