Six SVO veterans on prosthetic legs completed their preparations for climbing Mount Elbrus

Six veterans of the special Military Operation (SVO) with prosthetic legs have completed the final comprehensive training in Russia's leading specialized medical organizations as part of the Time of the Strong project, which started in April, and will set off to storm Elbrus in July. The organizers of the project announced this on June 30.

"The new prosthetics that we made for the guys are different in that they are ideal for climbing. We have improved them to suit the biomechanical features that each band member has. The children additionally completed a course of adaptation to new prosthetics at our walking school," said Vitaly Degtyarev, a leading prosthetician of the lower extremities at Bionics 2.0.

Pharmacotherapy, a training stage and medical admission became a mandatory stage of preparation before going to storm the highest mountain peak in Russia.

It is specified that the veterans of the SVO will rise to an altitude of more than 5 thousand meters above sea level. In early July, they will complete their final medical training in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. Here, the specialists of the sanatorium "White Nights" and the clinic "Beloostrov" are doing everything to bring the resources of their body to maximum values.

According to Alexander Fokin, Deputy Chief Physician for Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine at the Sports Medical Clinic, who will take part in the assault on Mount Elbrus together with veterans, according to the results of a cycle of acclimatization trips to the mountains, which took place at the end of May, a special training and medical training system has been developed to increase the physical endurance of participants. Thus, specialists from the Beloostrov high-tech clinic selected a treatment regimen and pharmacological personalized support, and during June, the veterans trained and received additional individual consultations from doctors.

"Even if someone from our group fails to reach the peak, climbing Elbrus will be our common victory," said Denis Shane-Mitrofanov, one of the project participants and a veteran of the SVO.

Six military personnel will take part in the ascent. Five of them are residents of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, and one participant is from Moscow.

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The diagnosis and selection of project participants will take place before the end of April.

On May 27, it became known that the participants of the "Time of the Strong" project are undergoing acclimatization and training routes, preparing to conquer the peak with a height of more than 5.6 thousand m. As part of the training ascent, veterans laid flowers at an altitude of 3.5 thousand m. m to the monument to the Heroes of the Defense of the Elbrus region, which is dedicated to the highest mountain front of the Great Patriotic War (WWII).