Russian man shocks everyone by pulling 218-tonne train to impress his fiancee

A person from Russia has made a world record by pulling a train weighing 218 tonnes i.e 97 thousand kg. The man’s name is Ivan Savkin and he has achieved this unique achievement in the city of Vladivostok.

Ivan is famous in Russia with the name ‘Human Mountain’ and according to media reports, he told that he had been preparing from one year to pull such heavy-weight train and it is has been known that he has pulled this train to impress his would-be wife. Now his second goal is to pull a ship weighing 12 thousand 400 tons. His dedicated his last triumph to Russia’s constitution Day which falls on 12th December.

However this is not the first time someone has made such a record, earlier on 18th October 2003, Velu Rathkrishan of India had pulled KTM trains from his teeth weighing 260.8 tonnes to 4.2 metres and set a world record at the Kuala Lumpur railway station in Malaysia.

Apart from this, Brahmachari Ashish, who lives in Vidisha, Madhya Pradesh, has pulled a railway engine weighing 65 tonnes with his teeth and at the same time, Aarti and Savita living in Gwalior had pulled the engine of the Narrowage train and recorded their name in the Limca Book of World Records.