Vladimir Lysenko
| Vladimir Ivanovich Lysenko | |
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January 1, 1955 Kharkov, USSR |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | Scientist |
| Years active | 1990–present |
| Employer | Institute of Mechanics, Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Known for | World travel |
| Notable work | 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 traveller. He set several Guinness World Records related to high-altitude river rafting.
Lysenko was born in Kharkov, USSR on 1 January 1955. 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").
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.
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.
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 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; 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 57 countries (including Nepal, China, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, etc.).
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