Launch from Baikonur; landing 168 km southeast of Dzheskasgan.

Docking on MIR spacestation; Tsibliyev and Lazutkin became together with Linenger the 23rd MIR resident crew; scientific experiments together with Ewald during mission EUROMIR 97; on 14th day fire onboard of MIR (cosmonauts quenched it); EVA by Tsibliyev and Linenger on 29.04.1997 (4h 48m) an oxygen cleaning-aparature failed; crew was visited by STS 84-crew.

Collision with a Progress-freighter with a heavy damage of the Spektr module; spares with Progress M-35 cargo spacecraft; several more failures (energy, oxygen-generators; heart problems of Commander Tsibliyev); the Soyuz landing rockets failed to fire on touchdown, so the crew performed one of the roughest landings in space history.

Ewald returned to Earth with Soyuz TM-24-spacecraft on 02.03.1997 at 06:44 UT.