This Good Samaritan has taken the giving spirit of Christmas to a whole new level.

A Gold Coast father is being hailed a hero after tackling a man who was allegedly trying to steal from his neighbours. Courtesy: Channel Nine.

Alena Gubeeva was unexpectedly left to raise her five young children on her own, after her partner Dmitriy Chepikov was tragically killed in a car accident during the northern hemisphere summer.

Dmitriy - a truck driver - had had been on his third day of a job driving a milk lorry for a local company when the accident occurred.

The government offered no support

The Russian mother had been with Dmitriy for 10 years, relying on him to be the family's sole breadwinner so that she could raise their five kids. As such, his death was not only a shocking emotional blow for the family, but a heavy financial one as well.

It was not long before she was soon unable to put food on the table.

While the Russian government does provide help for families in such situations, because she had not been married to her partner, she was not entitled to any financial benefits whatsoever.

The dilapidated house Alena and her five children had been living in. Source: Australscope

The incredible kindness of strangers

However, it seems the devastated single mum's luck has taken an unexpected turn after her story was shared in a local newspaper.

While reports say local shop owners have been giving her free food at the end of each day so she can feed her children, one unbelievably kind stranger has made a particularly grand gesture to help the family in need.

A businessman, who has chosen not to be named, not only helped the mother-of-five with food and clothing for her children, but has now bought her a brand new house.

Alena's new home is structurally stable, and even has a garden with fruit trees and a sauna. Source: Australscope.

"All of a sudden, I feel all the support"

This Good Samaritan decided to purchase a new house for the family when he saw that the one Alena and her children were living in was beyond repair.

Alena's youngest child is still a baby, meaning the young mother is still on maternity leave. Dmitriy had been working on building a new home for his family, but was nowhere near finishing the project when he passed away, leaving his family to live in their dilapidated temporary home.

"Two weeks ago he called me and said that it is pointless to repair our old hut and suggested he would find us a house," Alena told a news source.

Once they found a suitable place, the businessman from Ufa in central Russia's Bashkortostan Republic paid 550,000 RUB - the equivalent of $AUD114,000 - to give it to Alena.

The new house measures 44.4 square metres, has a small garden with several fruit trees, and even has a lovely warm Russian sauna.

Alena is overwhelmed with gratitude about receiving the most amazing gift anyone could receive - let alone from a complete stranger.

"For half a year I have been struggling to survive alone, and now all of a sudden I feel all the support, not just in terms of material support but also people wishing us well."