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Here's a little more insight on what happened:

As the band Dai Dorogu (Clear The Road) began its set at the Rock Za Bobrov music festival, Paval Konovalchik was doing his best to clear his own road to the stage. The wheelchair-bound fan recalled saying, 'Let me through, let me through!"

Then, as photographer Alexander Kandybo watched from near the stage, a group of strangers grabbed hold of Konovalchik's wheelchair and lifted him above the crowd. Kandybo told RFE/RL by telephone that Dai Dorogu has "these very upbeat, jumpy songs, and the song that was playing was Jump Into A Carriage [in the Russian language "carriage" can also mean wheelchair] and then there was this guy in a wheelchair up above the crowd just rocking out, totally loving it."

The photographer said Konovalchik was held aloft through two songs, dancing throughout. "There was a huge reaction to the photo," he said. "It's definitely the one picture I've taken that has resonated the most with people." As for Konovalchik, his memory of the event is clearly one that will have him singing for a lifetime. As he later told an interviewer: "I could have flown."

Source: rferl.org

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