Woke up at 8. Photographed the island of Crete and Africa. I can feel the fatigue and the uncertainty of returning to Earth. I’m an impressionable person; in my place someone else would strut around, but I keep tormenting myself with questions about what’s waiting down there. Started the Korund furnace. I’m working with two samples at once: potassium-doped germanium and cadmium sulfide. We finished the station inventory and are packing the return materials into the ship. Today there was a television report dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the USSR. In it I said:

“An anniversary date approaches. Our state has come a long way in space exploration. All the republics of our multinational state contribute to it. First of all, one must name Kazakhstan. It is from its land that ships and stations depart. That same land welcomes us back from space.

The Russian Federation carries out virtually all work on the design and construction of space technology, develops scientific equipment, everyday items, food products, and much more. Ukraine provides technological, astrophysical, and biological experiments, and develops leisure equipment: the Niva video recorder, the Vesna tape recorder, and interior finishing materials. Belarus processes the results of astrophysical experiments and made the clocks we use. Latvia provides medical and biological experiments, creating equipment for them: the Rheograph, Phyton, and Biogravistat. Estonia provides instruments for geophysical experiments and supplies freeze-dried foods for our table (meat, dairy). Moldova — her juices and beverages. Armenia provides astrophysical experiments. Georgia and Uzbekistan participate in designing biotechnology experiment programs.”