Ufa citizen was world’s first to jump from stratosphere to North Pole

Instructor pilot, parachutist, climber, and musician Alexander Lynnik from Ufa, who was part of the Russian team, was the first in the world to make a stratospheric jump to the North Pole.

On April 12, Alexander Lynnik, pilot-cosmonaut and Hero of Russia Mikhail Kornienko, and engineer Denis Efremov jumped from an IL-76 aircraft from a height of more than 10,000 meters and landed safely. The record holders were in free fall for about two minutes and opened their parachutes at an altitude of about 1 km, TASS reported.

The project was dedicated to three dates: the 10th anniversary of Crimea's reunification with Russia, the 90th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin, and the 450th anniversary of Ufa.

Author: Laysan Zakirova