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Cosmonaut's Diary
A bilingual digital edition of cosmonaut Valentin Lebedev's diary from his record-breaking 211-day flight aboard the Salyut-7 station in 1982 — a candid, day-by-day record never meant for publication.
In 1982, cosmonaut Valentin Lebedev spent 211 days aboard the Salyut-7 orbital station with Anatoly Berezovoy. Each day he wrote — about the work, the experiments, the homesickness, the politics, and the strange experience of living in orbit. The diary was never meant for publication; it was a conversation with himself, and it is startling in its honesty.
This project turns those 230-odd entries into a searchable, readable web archive — presented in the original Russian with a full English translation side by side.
Made for reading. A serif typeface, light and dark themes, a calendar view, full-text search and a language switcher. Built with Astro as a static site, with Pagefind handling search entirely on the client.
Read it at valentinlebedev.rzen.dev.
«Этот дневник не предназначался для публикации. Он велся для себя — разговор с самим собой.» — This diary was never meant for publication. It was written for himself — a conversation with himself.