Will, courage, skill (1974)

The Soviet Union National Parachute Sports Team.

Parachutists jumping.

Athletes in free fall, then land on parachutes.

Training in Tushino during the training camp.

Training jumps and jumps for landing accuracy.

Coach Dunayev watches the jumps with a special device (a tube).

Ground training.

They do exercises.

Precision jumps.

The parachutists try to land on a disk with a diameter of 10 cm.

The team: captain Mashchenko, Osipov, Gladilov, Tarasov, Makhnorylov, senior coach Gurny.

The head coach of the team conducts the analysis.

An-2 plane over the snow-capped mountains of North Ossetia.

The women's team: Starikova, Keriyeva, Radionova, Shvachko, Kostina.

The girls jump.

The coach watches.

Khripunova lands unsuccessfully, makes a second jump - successful.

The XIX USSR Championship.

The plane is in the air.

Group jump – “passing the baton”.

Jumps for landing accuracy.

Jumps for “splashdown” accuracy.

Wet parachutes are collected in a boat. V. Gurny makes his 4000th jump and lands.

Friends on the ground congratulate him and rock him.

Group jump of the national team.

The resort town of Portorož in Yugoslavia, where the “Adriatic Cup” is being played out.

Four Soviet parachutists (Osipov, Ushakov, Masherov, Gurny) are in the air under one canopy.

The parachutists land.

Gurny climbs to the highest step of the podium.

Awarding of the Soviet parachutists – the national team, with gold medals.

Pennants and cups won by Soviet parachutists in international and all-Union competitions.

Black and white photographs of athletes of several generations: Krestyanikov, Tkachenko, Seliverstova, Yachmenev, Eremina, Voinova, Lisov, Starchenko.