Nina Vasilyevna Pronyushkina (born 1949 ) - Soviet paratrooper, repeated world record holder, master of sports of the USSR, guard sergeant of the 106th guards airborne division.
| Pronyushkina Nina Vasilievna | |||
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| Date of Birth | 1949 | ||
| Place of Birth | Dubensky district Tula region , the USSR | ||
| Affiliation |  USSR  Russia | ||
| Type of army | Airborne troops | ||
| Rank | Guard sergeant  | ||
| Part | 106th Guards Airborne Division | ||
| Awards and prizes |
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 External Images | |
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 | Photo of Pronyushkina |
| Record Jump Book |
| Certificate of Master of Sports |
| Photo of Pronyushkina on the RIAN website |
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Biography
Born in 1949 in the Dubensky district of the Tula region [1] .
She served in the Airborne Forces of the USSR Armed Forces.
She made 3,747 parachute jumps, which are recorded in six books of jumping records.
In 1977, she made three record parachute jumps from the stratosphere (above 14 kilometers).
Currently retired.
Records
- Pronyushkina set her first world record on October 26, 1977 . As part of a group of 10 athletes, she made a jump from a height of 15,300 meters.
- On October 27, 1977, she set a second record by performing a single jump at night from an altitude of 14,800 meters, of which 14,400 were overcome in free fall.
- The third is a group night jump (10 people: N. Pronyushkina, L. Fisher, N. Gritsenkova, N. Vasilkova, E. Egorova, R. Burlaka, M. Chernetskaya, V. Bukhtoyarova , Z. Vakarova and Z. Salmin) [ 2] - installed on October 28, 1977 from a height of 14,125 meters. Sportswomen flew 13,580 meters in free fall.
Rewards
- Medals "USSR record holder". [3]
- USSR parachuting master (1978).
See also
- Andreev, Evgeny Nikolaevich
- Dolgov, Peter Ivanovich
- Kittinger, Joseph
- Baumgartner, Felix
Notes
- ↑ Jumping from the stratosphere (inaccessible link)
- ↑ The origin and development of mass parachuting in our country (Inaccessible link) . Date of treatment October 15, 2012. Archived January 26, 2016.
- ↑ Medals