Valentin Lebedev
Valentin Vitaljevich Lebedev born April 14, 1942 in Moscow. His stay aboard the Space Station Salyut 7 with Anatoly Berezovoy in 1982, which lasted 211 days, was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records. Since 1989 Lebedev has dedicated himself to scientific work. In 1991 he started the Scientific Geoinformation Center of the Russian Academy of Science. After graduation from high school, Valentin Lebedev studied for a year (1960) at the Higher Air Force Navigators School in Orenburg, but he was discharged as a result of an armed forces reduction. He continued his studies at the Moscow Aviation Institute, from which he graduated in 1966. In 1975 Lebedev defended his Ph.D. thesis on “Methods of formation of the dynamic test bench for the base service of spaceship and crew training”. In 1985 he defended his doctoral thesis on “Methods of carrying of astrophysical explorations aboard of orbital stations”.
Spaceflights:
No. Mission Position Time Duration
1 Soyuz 13 Flight Engineer 18.12. - 26.12.1973 7d 20h 55m
2 Soyuz T-5 / Soyuz T-7 Flight Engineer 13.05. - 10.12.1982 211d 09h 04m
Total 219d 05h 59m
