"several months in intensive training, concluding with examinations in November 1962, after which the four remaining candidates were commissioned Junior Lieutenants in the Soviet Air Force. Ponomaryova established herself as one of the leading candidates with Valentina Tereshkova and Irina Solovyova, and a joint mission profile was developed that would see two women launched into space, on solo Vostok flights on consecutive days. The honour of being the first woman in space was to be given to Valentina Tereshkova who would launch first on Vostok 5 while Ponomaryova would follow her into orbit on Vostok 6. However, Ponomaryova did not"
"became a doctor and was the first person to have both a mother and father who had travelled into space. She and Nikolayev divorced in 1982. Her second husband, the orthopaedist Yuliy G. Shaposhnikov, died in 1999. Kaluga, Yaroslavl (Russia), Karaganda, Baikonur (Leninsk, Kazakhstan, 1977), Gyumri (Leninakan, Armenia, 1965), Vitebsk (Belarus, 1975), Montreux (Switzerland), Drancy (France), Montgomery (UK), Polizzi Generosa (Italy), Darkhan (Mongolia, 1965), Sofia, Burgas, Petrich, Stara Zagora, Pleven, Varna (Bulgaria, 1963), Bratislava (Slovakia, 1963) Various locations and monuments have been named after Valentina Tereshkova: In 1997, London-based electronic pop group Komputer released a song entitled ""Valentina"" which gives"
"named Valentina in her honor. The 2017 mobile RPG """" has a hero named ""Valentina, the Star Pioneer"" in honor of Tereshkova. In 2017, Uruguayan electronic duo ""Corvis"" released a full album inspired by Valentina's courage, ""Krasnyy"". They specially made her a tribute naming ""Chaika"" to the most climatic and emotional track of the album. The BBC drama ""Call the Midwife"" (Season 7, Episode 4; broadcast 11 February 2018) used the space flight of Tereshkova as an example of heroism by a woman. Valentina Tereshkova Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (; born 6 March 1937) is a retired Russian cosmonaut, engineer, and"
"Valentina Tereshkova Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (; born 6 March 1937) is a retired Russian cosmonaut, engineer, and politician. She is the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than 400 applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. In order to join the Cosmonaut Corps, Tereshkova was honorarily inducted into the Soviet Air Force and thus she also became the first civilian to fly in space. Before her recruitment as a cosmonaut, Tereshkova was a textile-factory assembly worker and an amateur skydiver. After the dissolution of the first group of female"
"motherland…no difficulties arising on the path to building peace could frighten them.” The ban on abortion was repealed in 1955 - after almost 20 years of prohibition, abortion became legal again. After Stalin’s death, the Soviet government revoked the 1936 laws and issued a new law on abortion. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian: Валенти́на Влади́мировна Терешко́ва; born 6 March 1937) was the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than four hundred applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. Before her recruitment as cosmonaut, Tereshkova was a textile factory assembly worker"
"Valentina Kharchenko Valentina Kharchenko (née Zolotykh; born 1949) is a Russian female former track and field athlete who competed in the discus throw for the Soviet Union. She did not compete at any major international events, but made her name with a performance of in Feodosia in 1981. This ranked her third in the world for that season behind East Germany's Evelin Jahl and Bulgarian Maria Petkova. She ranked in the all-time top five at that point, behind Jahl, Petkova and Soviet record holder Faina Melnik, and as of 2018 this mark continues to rank her in the all-time top"
"her hero, and notes her focus in wanting to travel to Mars, despite being in her seventies. In 2015, a short film entitled ""Valentina's Dream"" was released by Meat Bingo Productions. The film stars Rebecca Front as Tereshkova and is based on an interview by the former cosmonaut where she expressed a desire to journey to Mars. The 2007 video game ""Mass Effect"" included a fictional star system named for Tereshkova. Streets in Ukraine that bore Tereshkova's name have been renamed due to the country's 2015 decommunization law. The 2015 space flight simulator ""Kerbal Space Program"" features a pilot Kerbal"
"the Hero of Socialist Labor of Czechoslovakia, Hero of Labor of Vietnam, and Hero of Mongolia. In 1990 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Edinburgh. Tereshkova crater on the far side of the Moon was named after her. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Tereshkova lost her political office but none of her prestige. To this day, she is revered as a hero, and to some her importance in Russian space history is only surpassed by Yuri Gagarin and Alexey Leonov. She was elected to the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian legislature, in"
"than 60 works. In her spare time she enjoys painting. The actress loves to read, to grow flowers. For statements against the interests of national security she was banned from entering Ukraine. Valentina Telichkina Valentina Ivanovna Telichkina (; born January 10, 1945) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2009). Valentina Telichkina was born January 10, 1945 (the day of the forty-year anniversary of his mother). She was the seventh born, the youngest child of her parents. Valentina began to show her artistic talent from early childhood - singing ditties at concerts"
"Valentina Telichkina Valentina Ivanovna Telichkina (; born January 10, 1945) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2009). Valentina Telichkina was born January 10, 1945 (the day of the forty-year anniversary of his mother). She was the seventh born, the youngest child of her parents. Valentina began to show her artistic talent from early childhood - singing ditties at concerts in the kindergarten. In high school she actively participated in amateur performances: singing, dancing, reading poetry and short stories, playing guitar in a string orchestra. So after graduating from high school she"
"Victoria Tereshchuk Victoria Anatoliïvna Tereshchuk (""Терещук Вікторія Анатоліївна""; born 18 February 1982) is a female former modern pentathlete from Ukraine. A competitor since 1999 she was awarded a bronze medal in the women's modern pentathlon event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing but was subsequently stripped of the medal after a doping re-test. She was World Champion in the individual and mixed relay events in 2011. For her World Championship victories, she was named Ukrainian Sportswoman of the Year and received the Order of Princess Olga in the Second Class. She is also the 2008 European Champion and competed"
"Valentina Petrenko Valentina Aleksandrovna Petrenko (; born August 23, 1955, Kazakh SSR) is a Russian politician, who serves as Russian Federation Senator from Khakassia since 2001. She serves on the Committee on Social Policy and has a PhD in Education Born in Kazakhstan, she is fluent in Russian, Polish, English, and Spanish. In 1977, she graduated from the Rostov State Pedagogical Institute, majoring in teacher of biology and chemistry. She is famous for negotiating for the release of several child hostages in 1993, for which she earned the Order “For Personal Courage”. She is also known for her iconic hair."
"Margarita Terekhova Margarita Terekhova (, b. August 25, 1942, Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian SFSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and theatre actress. She was awarded the title People's Artist of Russia. (1996) Margarita Terekhova was born on August 25, 1942 in the town of Turinsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast. In school, Margarita was interested in sport and was a basketball captain. She finished school with a gold medal. From 1959 she studied at the physics and mathematics faculty at the Tashkent State University from 1959 until 1961. After that she went to Moscow and tried to get into VGIK but her"
"36 competitors. Victoria Tereshchuk Victoria Anatoliïvna Tereshchuk (""Терещук Вікторія Анатоліївна""; born 18 February 1982) is a female former modern pentathlete from Ukraine. A competitor since 1999 she was awarded a bronze medal in the women's modern pentathlon event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing but was subsequently stripped of the medal after a doping re-test. She was World Champion in the individual and mixed relay events in 2011. For her World Championship victories, she was named Ukrainian Sportswoman of the Year and received the Order of Princess Olga in the Second Class. She is also the 2008 European Champion"
"Viktoria Tereshkina Viktoria Tereshkina (; born 31 May 1983) is a Russian ballet dancer, currently one of the stars of the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg. Tereshkina was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia where her father was a gymnastics teacher. From the age of four she was trained in artistic gymnastics in which she performed increasingly well. However, when she reached the age of 10, her parents decided her prospects for an extended career would be better in ballet. As a result, she was sent to the ballet school in Krasnoyarsk. When she was 16, she took part in a"
"Tetyana Terekhova Tetyana Andriivna Terekhova () is a Ukrainian TV, radio presenter and journalist. She was born on January 25, 1992 in Dnipro, Ukraine. In 1994, together with her family moved to Kiev, studied in the preparatory class of British International School and received education in secondary school No. 128 (Jewish Lyceum). Since 1998, nine years she was professionally ballroom and Latin American dancer. Tatyana and her partner Dmitry Shumigay became multiple champions of Ukraine, champions of open international competitions in Spain, Germany, Slovenia and Poland. She was interested in piano, vocal and painting for over seven years. In 2007,"
"In 1997, she was retired from the Russian Air Force and the cosmonaut corps by presidential order. Beyond her recognized political offices within the Soviet Union, Tereshkova also became a well-known representative of the Soviet Union abroad. She was made a member of the World Peace Council in 1966, a member of the Yaroslavl Soviet in 1967. She was also the Soviet representative to the UN Conference for the International Women's Year in Mexico City in 1975. She also led the Soviet delegation to the World Conference on Women in Copenhagen and played a critical role in shaping the socialist"
"began final preparations for her own flight. She was 26 at the time. On the morning of 16 June 1963, Tereshkova and her backup Solovyova were both dressed in spacesuits and taken to the launch pad by bus. Following the tradition set by Gagarin, Tereshkova also urinated on the bus tire, becoming the first woman to do so. After completing her communication and life support checks, she was sealed inside the Vostok. After a two-hour countdown, Vostok 6 launched faultlessly, and Tereshkova became the first woman in space. Her call sign in this flight was Chaika (English: Seagull; ), later"
"cosmonauts in 1969, she became a prominent member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, holding various political offices. She remained politically active following the collapse of the Soviet Union and is regarded as a hero in post-Soviet Russia and much of the world. Having orbited Earth 48 times, Tereshkova remains the only woman ever to have been on a solo space mission. In 2013, she offered to go on a one-way trip to Mars if the opportunity arose. Valentine Tereshkova was born in the village of Maslennikovo in Tutayevsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, in central Russia. Her parents had"
"Ratmansky"" ""George Balanchine"" ""Frederick Ashton"" ""William Forsythe"" ""Yuri Smekalov"" ""Hans van Manen"" ""Other Choreographers"" The awards received by Viktoria Tereshkina include: Viktoria Tereshkina Viktoria Tereshkina (; born 31 May 1983) is a Russian ballet dancer, currently one of the stars of the Mariinsky Ballet in Saint Petersburg. Tereshkina was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia where her father was a gymnastics teacher. From the age of four she was trained in artistic gymnastics in which she performed increasingly well. However, when she reached the age of 10, her parents decided her prospects for an extended career would be better in ballet."
"Vostok 6 Vostok 6 (, ""Orient 6"" or ""East 6"") was the first human spaceflight to carry a woman, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, into space. The spacecraft was launched on June 16, 1963. While Vostok 5 had been delayed by technical problems, Vostok 6's launch proceeded with no difficulties. Data collected during the mission provided better understanding of the female body's reaction to spaceflight. Like other cosmonauts on Vostok missions, Tereshkova maintained a flight log, took photographs, and manually oriented the spacecraft. Her photographs of the horizon from space were later used to identify aerosol layers within the atmosphere. The mission,"
"Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6), first spacewalk (cosmonaut Alexey Leonov on Voskhod 2), first Moon impact (""Luna 2""), first image of the far side of the moon (""Luna 3"") and unmanned lunar soft landing (""Luna 9""), first space rover (""Lunokhod 1""), first sample of lunar soil automatically extracted and brought to Earth (""Luna 16""), and first space station (Salyut 1). Further notable records included the first interplanetary probes: Venera 1 and Mars 1 to fly by Venus and Mars, respectively, Venera 3 and Mars 2 to impact the respective planet surface, and Venera 7 and Mars 3 to make soft"
"30 female discus throwers. She competed between 1977 and 1982 and was also ranked eleventh in the world for the 1978 and 1982 seasons. Valentina Kharchenko Valentina Kharchenko (née Zolotykh; born 1949) is a Russian female former track and field athlete who competed in the discus throw for the Soviet Union. She did not compete at any major international events, but made her name with a performance of in Feodosia in 1981. This ranked her third in the world for that season behind East Germany's Evelin Jahl and Bulgarian Maria Petkova. She ranked in the all-time top five at that"
"2011 as a member of United Russia where she continues to serve. Tereshkova's life and spaceflight were first written of in the West in the 1975 book: ""It Is I, Sea Gull; Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space"" by Mitchel R. Sharpe and then again in greater detail of her life and spaceflight in the 2007 book ""Into That Silent Sea"" by Colin Burgess and Francis French, including interviews with Tereshkova and her colleagues. Tereshkova was invited to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's residence in Novo-Ogaryovo for the celebration of her 70th birthday. While there she said that she would"
"children's books, including ""Metropolitan"" (1932), ""The Moon and the Lazy Fellow"" (1933), ""The Seagull"" (1965, dedicated to Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet Russian cosmonaut, the first woman to go into space). She is the author of poems for grown-ups: ""The Violin Clef"" (1958), ""The Bird"" (1965). The verses of Tarakhovskaya are lyrical, thoughtful, and almost always full of humor, with most of them being the poetry of ordinary and everyday things around. Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya translated into Russian many poems for children written by various Soviet and foreign authors: verses of Polish poet Julian Tuwim, Uzbek poet Kuddus Muhammadi (Muhammadiev), Azerbaijani poet Mirvari"
"Valentina Serova Valentina Serova ""()"" (December 23, 1917 – December 12, 1975) was a Soviet film and theatre actress born in Ukraine. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1946). Winner of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1947). Serova was born Valentina Polovikova ""(Валентина Половикова)"" in 1917 in Kharkiv. In 1938, she married her first husband, Anatoli Serov, a Soviet Air Force general, a test and fighter pilot. In 1939 Anatoli Serov died in a crash testing a new plane. In 1939, her film ""A Girl with a Temper"" had a huge success and she became one of the biggest"
"a more-or-less direct account of her career as a cosmonaut. It was released as a single and appears on their album ""The World of Tomorrow"". The band Public Service Broadcasting has a song entitled ""Valentina"" on their 2015 album ""The Race for Space"" in tribute to her. In the same year, Findlay Napier's album """" included a song ""Valentina"", written in her honour by Napier and Boo Hewerdine. Tereshkova was featured in the 2003 made-for-television adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time. She was portrayed by Apollonia Vanova In season three of ""Orange is the New Black"", Red describes Tereshkova as"
"she became Secretary of the local Komsomol (Young Communist League) and later joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. After the flight of Yuri Gagarin in 1961, Sergey Korolyov, the chief Soviet rocket engineer, came up with the idea of putting a woman in space. On 16 February 1962, Valentina Tereshkova was selected to join the female cosmonaut corps. Out of more than 400 applicants, five were selected: Tatyana Kuznetsova, Irina Solovyova, Zhanna Yorkina, Valentina Ponomaryova, and Tereshkova. Qualifications included that they be parachutists under 30 years of age, under tall, and under in weight. Tereshkova was considered a"
"particularly worthy candidate, partly due to her ""proletarian"" background, and because her father, tank leader sergeant Vladimir Tereshkov, was a war hero. He died in the Finnish Winter War during World War II in the Lemetti area in Finnish Karelia when Tereshkova was two years old. After her mission, she was asked how the Soviet Union should thank her for her service to the country. Tereshkova asked that the government search for, and publish, the location where her father was killed in action. This was done, and a monument now stands at the site in Lemetti—now on the Russian side"
"a similar orbit for five days, landing three hours after Tereshkova. The two vessels approached each other within at one point, and Tereshkova communicated with Bykovsky and with Khrushchev by radio. Even though there were plans for further flights by women, it took 19 years until the second woman, Svetlana Savitskaya, flew into space. None of the other four in Tereshkova's early group flew, and, in October 1969, the pioneering female cosmonaut group was dissolved. In September 1963, Tereshkova donated a silver cup at the women's 1963 European Rowing Championships held in Khimki near Moscow for the most successful nation,"
"Tkachenko, who went on to become Olympic champion. In her final year of competition in 1973 she has a season's best 4754 points, which gave her a career high on the world rankings in second place behind East Germany's Burglinde Pollak. After her retirement from active athletics she focused on coaching. She was given the Honoured Master of Sports for her efforts and trained high jumper Tatyana Denisova, among others. Valentina Tikhomirova Valentina Nikolayevna Tikhomirova (; born 28 June 1941) is a Russian former track and field athlete who competed in the women's pentathlon for the Soviet Union. She was"
"Valentina Tikhomirova Valentina Nikolayevna Tikhomirova (; born 28 June 1941) is a Russian former track and field athlete who competed in the women's pentathlon for the Soviet Union. She was the gold medallist at the 1966 European Athletics Championships and a five-time national pentathlon champion. She represented the Soviet Union at the Olympic Games twice (1968, 1972) and competed two further times at the European Athletics Championships (1969, 1971), placing in the top five at all four events but failing to win any medals. She had a best of 5234 points, based on the points table at the time. Born"
"Valentina Shevchenko (fighter) Valentina Shevchenko (; born ) is a Kyrgyzstani–Peruvian professional mixed martial artist and former Muay Thai fighter. Shevchenko competes in the women's flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), where she is the current Women's Flyweight champion. She has victories over Joanna Jędrzejczyk a total of four times, three of which were amateur muay thai bouts, one of which was an MMA bout. Shevchenko was born in Frunze, Kirghizia, USSR on March 7, 1988, into a Ukrainian family with Soviet, and later Kyrgyzstani, citizenship. After becoming interested in combat sports at an early age, she began"