Launch from Baikonur; landing 88 km northeast of Arkalyk.

Docking on MIR spacestation; resident crew partly exchanged; both cosmonauts and Doctor cosmonaut Polyakov became the 16th resident crew; the crew conducted medical experiments (research of problems of weightlessness in long-term-mission); experiments in materials science; both cosmonauts performed two EVA's on 09.09.1994 (5h 06m) and 14.09.1994 (6h 01m), in which the stations external insulation was repaired; many problems during this mission, which finally ended with the first successful manual docking of a Progress supply ship an the station by Malenchenko.