Valentin Lebedev Status: Retired 4/14/1942 – Nationality: Russian Type: Government Agency: Russian Federal Space Agency (ROSCOSMOS) Valentin Vitalyevich Lebedev (Russian: Валентин Витальевич Лебедев; born April 14, 1942 in Moscow) was a Soviet cosmonaut who made two flights into space. His stay aboard the Space Station Salyut 7 with Anatoly Berezovoy in 1982, which lasted 211 days, was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.