# fc153 Soyuz-30/31/Salyut-6 four flown covers

Four covers flown with two Intercosmos teams Soyuz-30 USSR-Poland and Soyuz-31/29 USSR-East Germany visited Salyut-6 space station june-october 1978.Each cover signed by all cosmonauts of these teams:Klimuk-Hermaszwski (Soyuz-30) and Bykovsky-Jaehn (Soyuz-31/29) and each cover cancelled with 6 on board Soyuz/Salyut handstamps. Four Soviet plus Polish and East German Intercosmos handstamps delivered to Salyut-6 station.Taken on board covers depict Father of Space Konstantin Tsiolkovskiy, Father of practical Cosmonautics Sergei Korolev, Intercosmos cover and cover commemorating XXV Congress of Komsomol junior Communist organisation (cosmonaut Klimuk was a delegate from Star City at this congress).All covers carried back from station by Bykovsky and given as gift to cosmonaut Lazarev.