Stability and Transition of High-Speed Boundary Layers and Wakes
Title
President, Union of Russian Around-the-World Travellers Doctor of Philosophy, Fluid Mechanics
Board member of
Himalayan Club of Russian Rafters & Kayakers (Chairman)
Vladimir Ivanovich Lysenko (Russian: Владимир Лысенко; born 1 January 1955) is a Russian academic and world traveler. He set several Guinness World Records related to high-altitude river rafting.
Biography
Lysenko was born in Kharkov, USSR on 1 January 1955 in the family of pilot Ivan Lysenko and engineer-designer Galina Lysenko (Korotkova). He had graduated from the Kharkov Aviation University (aircraft construction faculty) with honors and the postgraduate course of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (in the specialty "mechanics of fluid, gas and plasma").
Vladimir has three children: Victor (birthday 27.10.80), after graduating from Novosibirsk State University (Faculty of Economics) who moved from Novosibirsk to Krasnodar; Svetlana (28.10.83), after graduating from the Novosibirsk State University (Faculty of Economics) moved to Moscow, now lives in the Netherlands in Zuid-Scharwoude; and Slaviya (8.10.16).
Between 1991 and 1992, Lysenko became the first man to raft on rivers flowing down all of the world's eight-thousanders—the 14 mountains with peaks higher than 8,000 meters (26,000 ft) above sea level.[3][4]
In 1996, Lysenko became the first man to raft down the highest peak of every continent (except the Antarctic), as well as the highest peak of Oceania.[3]
While rafting down Mount Everest in Nepal in April and May 1991, Lysenko set the Guinness World Record for the greatest altitude difference travelled in a rafting trip: a descent of 4,500 meters (14,800 ft) from Dughla on the Khumbu Glacier (4,600 metres or 15,100 feet above sea level) to Chatara (100 metres or 330 feet above sea level). In September 1996, he set the Guinness World Record for high-altitude rafting with a 5,600 meters (18,400 ft) start on the Eastern Rong Chu River on Mount Everest;[5] the previous record of 5,334 meters (17,500 ft) had been set in September 1976 by the Mike-Jones team of England.
Vladimir rafted also on mountain sources of Amazon River and the Nile, kayaked on Yukon River. He rafted in 100 countries (including Nepal, China, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, etc.).[6][7]
The start was in Vladivostok, Russia in 2006. Lysenko has ridden 41,800 kilometers (26,000 mi) on a bicycle. He has cycled via 29 countries - Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Slovakia, Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Italy, France, Spain, Morocco (and Western Sahara), São Tomé and Príncipe, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Mexico, the United States, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Australia, Indonesia, North Korea.[13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
The path of Gold Rush
In 2003, Lysenko duplicated the path of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897–1898, travelling by foot and kayak.[20]
In his project titled "From Earth's bowels to stratosphere", Lysenko descended (in 2004) to the bottom of the world's deepest mine, the Mponeng Gold Mine in Carletonville, South Africa, a depth of 3.4615 kilometers (2.1509 mi) below ground. Then he had traveled in a car from Carletonville to Moscow, passing through South Africa, Namibia, Angola, the Congo, Zaire, Kenya, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Russia. And then Lysenko made a series of lifting by various planes to the stratosphere (to the height of 11–16,5 km). Difference of altitudes on this route (from the mine bottom to the stratosphere) was 3.5 + 16.5 = 20 kilometers (12 mi), and difference of temperatures 58°+ |-56°| = 114°С.
Routes of circumnavigations of Vladimir Lysenko
Vladimir had visited all 195 countries (UN members and observers).
Affiliations
Lysenko is the President of Union of Russian Around-the-World Travelers,[22][23] and the Chairman of Himalayan Club of Russian Rafters & Kayakers.[24]
^Владимир Лысенко [Vladimir Lysenko]. Rusia (in Russian). Торгово-Промышленной группой «Сибтранс». Retrieved 2011-01-29.
^Lysenko, Vladimir (July 1998). Через две Америки на автомобиле [Two of America by car]. Вокруг Света (Interview) (in Russian). Interviewed by Andrew Shapran. Retrieved 2011-01-29.
^ abКРУГОСВЕТКА НА ЯХТЕ ПО ЭКВАТОРУ [Around the World on the Yacht at the equator]. Russian Ocean Sailing Club (in Russian). 2006. Retrieved 2011-01-29.