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14 V I K I N G C R U I S E S Meet the Experts Deborah Snow Deborah is a Walkley Award-winning senior writer for e Sydney Morning Herald and e Age, and a former Russian and European correspondent for ABCTV. She began her career at e National Times before moving to Canberra to report for e Australian Financial Review. She joined the ABC, reporting for Four Corners, in the late 1980s and was posted to Moscow in 1992 as the national television correspondent. She covered the turbulent period in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, travelling to all corners of the former USSR. Deborah published her first book Siege: Inside the Lindt Café in 2018. Mr. Valeriy Tomashov Valeriy is a theatre historian, philosopher and theatre critic. From 1992 until 1993, he worked as a visiting professor at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts, and was also a research trainer at Harvard University. Valeriy is now a philosophy professor at Yaroslavl State University in Russia, and is a member of the Russian Union of eatre Workers. Mr. Victor Erokhin For 23 years, Victor was the director of the Uglich Museum of Art and History in Russia, and is now the deputy director of the Museum for Scientific Work. He is the author of a number of museum expositions and has organised many exhibitions. Victor has also written and published several Uglich guidebooks, as well as a book about Tsarevich Dimitry, a famous Russian tsarevich. Aleksandr Ivanovich Laveykin Born in Moscow in 1951, Aleksandr is a retired Soviet cosmonaut. He flew on one spaceflight, for the first part of the long duration expedition Mir EO-2. Aleksandr flew as a flight engineer, and was both launched and landed with the spacecraft Soyuz TM-2. He spent 174 days, 3 hours and 25 minutes in space. Aleksandr was awarded the titles of Hero of the Soviet Union and Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR, Order of Lenin, and received the Russian Federation Medal for Merit in Space Exploration.

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