A military veteran with a prosthetic leg parachuted from a height of 4 thousand meters.

SVO veteran Artyom Tumak fulfilled his dream — he made 25 parachute jumps from a height of 4 thousand m. After being seriously injured, he lost his leg, but this did not break his spirit. First he conquered Elbrus, and now he's got a blue beret.

He made a parachute jump from a height of four thousand meters. A whole team of doctors supervised the preparation for 25 such jumps, and each time a prosthetic technician was waiting on the ground. The athlete's amputation of the upper third of the shin is a consequence of a mine explosion injury on the front line.

"Besides the fact that my leg is missing, my internal organs are broken, my arm is broken. I wanted to prove to myself that I am no different from anyone," said Tumak.

He really proved it. Last year, Artyom conquered the highest peak in Russia and Europe — it was the world's first group ascent of Elbrus by his veterans on prosthetic legs.

Then he assured: this is not the limit, but only the beginning. And the organizers of the Time of the Strong project helped us take the next incredible step: to master parachuting. Artyom always dreamed of the sky, but after becoming a paratrooper, he did not have time to finish his training — he went to the front. So on the Day of the Airborne Forces, he wore only a vest — that's the tradition.

"You can earn a vest with blood, but you can get a beret by jumping. When they told me that everything was ready, I thought I would cry with joy!" — said Artem Tumak.

Bionics 2.0 specialists accepted the challenge and modified Artyom's existing prosthesis.

"We approached it comprehensively, we selected special fasteners, a special foot. And we have also developed a 3D pad that compensates for the volume under the suit to add aerodynamics," said Shovgi Bagiyev, prosthetician at Bionics 2.0 biotech company.

This is necessary for the jump to be stable and manageable — without the pad, Artyom would have been spun in the air. Each such detail is unique. The pad exactly repeats the shape of the healthy leg of a particular patient, and the mesh structure makes the design as easy as possible so that its owner is comfortable.

All the skydiving was successful. And for the doctors of the Beloostrov high—tech clinic, the flagship medical center of the MMC group of companies for the preparation of fighters for Elbrus, this is an indicator. Developed by them, the first unique complex of training and recovery procedures in Russia works not only in the moment, but also after a while. A team of the best specialists, an individual approach and advanced equipment helped bring the capabilities of the fighters to the maximum.

"If a person really wants to, if a person has a dream, then with some effort they can return even to extreme sports and continue to get results that previously seemed simply unthinkable for people with disabilities, especially on prosthetics," explained Oksana Gutkina, head of the functional diagnostics department at the Beloostrov High Technology Clinic.

"Now we are trying to adjust the prosthesis to the patient's needs. These can be different attachments, they can be different feet — for jumping, for running, for swimming," said Anna Danilina, a rehabilitologist at Bionics 2.0 biotech company.

Also, the nozzle can be, as in Artyom's case, for parachuting. The exams have been passed, and the veteran has received a license to perform jumps on his own. He proudly wears a blue beret and helps heroes like him recover.

"To motivate the guys to move on with their example. Short arms, as they say, we can't hug everyone. But we will put a certain amount into operation normally. But these people will already embrace their own. And the chain will work," Artem Tumak emphasized.

Now the veteran plans to assemble a team of parachutists with prosthetics to prove that their capabilities are limited only on paper.

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Six veterans of the Donbass Defense Forces climbed to the top of Mount Elbrus last July, despite prosthetics and the effects of wounds sustained in battle, and this achievement has become revolutionary for Russian medicine. The Time of the Strong project was launched in Beloostrov, where specialists from the My Medical Center group of companies fully examined future climbing participants and developed individual training programs for them.