Penza, 7 January 2012. PenzaNews. Five parachutes and two insuring devices cost more than 500 thousand rubles were given to teenage club “Altair” of the association of young technicians №1 of Penza.

According to the tutor of the club Nikolay Petruhin, parachuting is very popular in Russia for a long time. It’s sport of courageous and brave people who are the fifth ocean explorers.

The press-service of the department of education of Penza said: “Parachuting attracts teenagers because of romanticism, possibility to test, to check up the abilities. The aim of the tutor is to create trust and mutual understanding atmosphere for such teenagers, to open prospects pre-professional preparations, to strengthen physically and morally that is the extremely important for the further service in the Russian army”.