Vladimir Lysenko
Introduction '''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).
Education Lysenko holds a Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in fluid mechanics. He is a leading fellow at the Institute of Mechanics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk.He authored the book ''Stability and Transition of High-Speed Boundary Layers and Wakes'', as well as over 200 scientific papers.
Traveling ===Rafting===Vladimir on Kemabu River, New GuineaBetween 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  above sea level.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.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  from Dughla on the Khumbu Glacier ( above sea level) to Chatara ( above sea level). In September 1996, he set the Guinness World Record for high-altitude rafting with a  start on the Eastern Rong Chu River on Mount Everest; the previous record of  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.). Vladimir Lysenko in Ulan Bator; Mongolia===Circumnavigation in a car===Between September 1997 and 2002, Lysenko crossed 62 countries by car. He crossed each continent (other than Antarctica) twice, traveling between the most distant points of each continent in both latitude and longitude. He crossed the Americas from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Tierra del Fuego in Argentina; from Punta Pariñas, Peru to Cape Cabo Branko, Brazil; and from Anchor Bay, Alaska to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. His routes across Africa took him from Cape Agulhas, South Africa to Ras-Angela Cape, Tunisia; and from Somali to Dakar. Crossing Europe and Asia, he travelled from Cabo da Roca, Portugal to Galimiy and Magadan in Russia; and from Tanjung Piai in Peninsular Malaysia to North Cape, Norway. Australia was crossed from Cape Byron to Steep Point and from Cape York Peninsula to South Point. These travels totaled . For the trip departing from Anchorage, the limited finances of Lysenko's team lead them to buy a used Volvo 240 with  on the odometer for .V.Lysenko in Deidades Tutelares, Chile===Circumnavigation on a bicycle===The start was in Vladivostok, Russia in 2006.Lysenko has ridden  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. ===The path of Gold Rush===In 2003, Lysenko duplicated the path of the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897–1898, travelling by foot and kayak.V.Lysenko in a yacht in Indian Ocean===Circumnavigation along the equator===Lysenko had circumnavigated the globe from west to east, straying no more than two degrees of latitude from the Equator. Starting in Libreville (Gabon), Vladimir had successfully crossed (in a car, a motor boat, a yacht, a ship, a kayak, a bicycle, and by foot) Africa (from Libreville (Gabon) to Kiunga (Kenya) through Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda and Kenya), Indian Ocean, Indonesia (from Padang to Biak), Pacific Ocean, South America (from Pedernales (Ecuador) to Macapa (Brazil) through Ecuador, Colombia and Brazil) and Atlantic Ocean with finish in Libreville in 2012.Lysenko at the depth of 3.5 km===Project "From Earth's Bowels to Stratosphere"===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  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 = , 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, and the Chairman of Himalayan Club of Russian Rafters & Kayakers.
Bibliography *  Vladimir Lysenko. Rafting Down the Highest World Peaks  1997.Novosibirsk*  Vladimir Lysenko. Round-the-World Tour In a Car  2002.Novosibirsk* V.I.Lysenko. Stability and Transition of High-Speed Boundary Layers and Wakes. 2006.Novosibirsk*  Vladimir Lysenko. Round-the-World Tour On a Bicycle  2014.Novosibirsk*  Vladimir Lysenko.Round-the-World Tour Along the Equator  2014.Novosibirsk*  Vladimir Lysenko. From the Earth Bowels to the Stratosphere  2014.Novosibirsk* Vladimir Lysenko's travellings. 2016.Volgograd* Vladimir Lysenko. Photosketches of 100 most interesting and various countries. 2017.Novosibirsk * Modern Russian Travellers, Vol.2: Vladimir Lysenko, My travellings and adventures (in Russian). 2018.Novosibirsk
References
External links *  Union of Russian Around-the-World Travellers site *  Himalayan Club of Russian Rafters & Kayakers site  *  Down-the-Highest-World-Peaks Rafters & Kayakers Clubs * Рафтинг в Гималаях (Rafting in Himalayas)  by Vladimir Lysenko* Lib.Ru: Владимир Лысенко  Books by Vladimir Lysenko* ПО МАРШРУТУ "ЗОЛОТОЙ ЛИХОРАДКИ" (Route "Gold Rush") ''Труд'' (165), 2003-09-06. * ЛОЦИЯ реки КОКСУ из ОТЧЕТа (Pilot River Cox's Report) * ГОСТЕПРИИМСТВО ЛЮДОЕДОВ (Hospitality Ogre)