Moscow - A Russian man survived after downing three bottles of vodka and leaping from a fifth-floor balcony - twice.

Alexei Roskov says he jumped the second time because he couldn't take his wife's nagging about the first time.

Roskov's wife, Yekaterina, had watched in horror as her drunken husband opened the kitchen window of their Moscow apartment, and hurled himself out.

Astonishingly Roskov, 22, survived and managed to stagger back upstairs with barely a scratch after the fall.

But while his wife called for an ambulance and began to scold him, he jumped again.