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Valentin Lebedev trained as a cosmonaut from 1971 – 1973, at the Yuri A. Gagarin Center for Cosmonaut Training.

He earned a diploma in 1972, given the title Cosmonaut Investigator, and taken on to the cosmonaut's team ZKBEM.

His first space flight was with Peter Klimuk, as a crew engineer aboard the spaceship Soyuz 13, which orbited Earth from 18 – 26 December 1973.

After this space flight, Lebedev was awarded a gold medal, " Hero of Soviet Union ", the Order of Lenin, and promoted to the rank of Pilot Cosmonaut.