Two of Russia’s most famous parachute jumpers met death yesterday afternoon while practicing delayed parachute jumps from great heights, it was learned today. They were the Jewish girls Luba Berlin, 19 years old, and Temara Maslova, 20.
Only ten days before, Miss Berlin had broken the all-Soviet record for parachute jumping by landing safely after having stepped out of an airplane at a height of 3,000 meters.
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