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# fc160 Soyuz-35/36/T-2/37/38 multimissions flown cov

Cover flown with fourth expedition to Salyut-6 station Leonid Popov and last minute replaced Valeriy Ryumin.Mission started 9 april 1980 and continued 184 days (new record) till october 11,1980.Cosmonauts were resupplied by 4 Progress tankers and visited by 4 different teams of cosmonauts during this 6 months flight.Covers flown to Salyut-6 on board Soyuz-35 and returned on board Soyuz-37. Autographed by all cosmonauts of main team and visitors:Popov-Ryumin (Soyuz-35), Kubasov-Farkas (Soyuz-36 USSR-Hungaria), Malyshev-Aksyonov (Soyuz T-2 first flight of an improved Soyuz), Gorbatko-Tuan (Soyuz-37 USSR-Vietnam), Romanenko-Mendez (Soyuz-38 USSR-Cuba). Cover cancelled with 3 Soviet on board handstamps including special handstamp of Fourth main expedition, Space mail Soyuz/Salyut-6 and new pentagonal Salyut-6 handstamp.And also cancelled with Hungarian, Vietnamese and Cuban on board handstamps for these Intercosmos program missions on Soviet Salyut-6 station. After long travel in space covers were given to cosmonaut Lazarev (each notared).
 # fc160            Soyuz-35/36/T-2/37/38 multimissions flown cov 1
 # fc160            Soyuz-35/36/T-2/37/38 multimissions flown cov 2
 # fc160            Soyuz-35/36/T-2/37/38 multimissions flown cov 3

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