Vladimir Lysenko


Vladimir Ivanovich Lysenko is a Russian academic and world traveller. 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. He had graduated from the Kharkov Aviation University with honors and the postgraduate course of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Vladimir has three children: Victor, after graduating from Novosibirsk State University who moved from Novosibirsk to Krasnodar; Svetlana, after graduating from the Novosibirsk State University moved to Moscow, now lives in the Netherlands in Zuid-Scharwoude; and Slaviya.

Education

Lysenko holds a Doctorate of Philosophy 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

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 above sea level.
In 1996, Lysenko became the first man to raft down the highest peak of every continent, 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 to Chatara. 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 94 countries.

Circumnavigation in a car

Between September 1997 and 2002, Lysenko crossed 62 countries by car. He crossed each continent 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.

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, 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.

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, Vladimir had successfully crossed Africa to Kiunga, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Pacific Ocean, South America to Macapa and Atlantic Ocean with finish in Libreville in 2012.

Project "From Earth's Bowels to Stratosphere"

In his project titled "From Earth's bowels to stratosphere", Lysenko descended 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. Difference of altitudes on this route was 3.5 + 16.5 =, and difference of temperatures 58°+ |-56°| = 114°С.

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.