About the book: 1973 / The name of test parachutist Vasily Grigorievich Romanyuk is well known not only in the Soviet Union, but also beyond its borders. The courage and high parachute skill of this outstanding tester brought our Motherland more than one world record in parachuting and magnified his glory. Vasily Grigorievich Romaniuk was the first in the world to complete 3,000 parachute jumps. Most of these jumps are test ones, and behind each of them there are months of hard work, creative quests, doubts and hopes of a whole team of designers, engineers, doctors, stackers, pilots, testers. The author simply and truthfully talks about these people, their work in his book. Separate chapters are devoted to the training of paratroopers during the Great Patriotic War, Soviet airborne troops and parachute training of cosmonauts. Literary entry by Alexei Golikov.