# fpit131 Soyuz TM-16/MIR-13 flown personal items bag

Personal items bag of cosmonaut A.Poleshuk signed by him and hand notared `Personal items BE PAF` (Board Engineer/ Poleshuk Alexander Fyodorovich initials).Initials also indicated on orange tag above. Bag flown during 179 days MIR-13 expedition in 1993. This item was shared by its owner-cosmonaut Alexander Poleschuk and during our meeting Alexander provided hand written and signed letter for this bag.Text of letter translates as following: White bag from Pinguine suit used by myself, cosmonaut Poleschuk, as carriage bag for personal goods during return of transport space ship Soyuz TM-16 on 22 July, 1993. Another general type certificate signed and cancelled with personal handstamp of cosmonaut Poleschuk depicts this bag on the table next to him.