"I would like to say that despite the grave consequences of the accident, we managed to avoid the worst-case scenario. And this was due to the station’s employees and specialists from the Emergencies Ministry acting professionally, bravely and decisively. I have recently signed an executive order to award a group of employees at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower station, to whom we largely owe the fact that the station was saved, with Russian Government Certificates of Honour."