Launch from Baikonur; landing 107 km southwest of Akmola.

Docking on MIR spacestation; both cosmonauts became the 21st resident crew after crew exchanging; both cosmonauts performed six EVAs on 15.03.1996 (5h 51m), 20.05.1996 (5h 20m), 24.05.1996 (5h 43m), 30.05.1996 (4h 20m), 06.06.1996 (3h 34m) and 13.06.1996 (5h 42m) carrying out following work: installation of the telescopic boom, the MSCA solar array, the multi-spectral scanner, exchanging materials samples and deploying of a radar antenna; protein crystal growth experiments; more experiments in materials science using high temperture melting oven "Optizon"; module "Priroda" arrived on 26.04.1996; supplies arrived with cargo spacecraft Progress M-31.

Crew was visited by crew of STS-76; since that time (24.03.1996) U.S. astronaut Shannon Lucid completed resident crew.