twentieth century was the era of emancipation.Women become nuclear scientists, pilots, they were playing football, doing other sports, hitherto the prerogative of the former men.
world's first state of workers and peasants hastened to consolidate its position of priority in everything that was considered bleeding edge of civilization.Space pioneer Yuri Gagarin became ours.It was necessary to build on the success.A woman was required to demonstrate the unprecedented opportunities offered to workers, regardless of their sex, socialism.
At the same time contenders for a place in the spacecraft was supposed to be a suitable biography.Tereshkova, like the other four girls were selected in the cosmonaut corps, responsible mainly requirements: excellent health, growing to 1 m 70 cm, weight less than 70 kg and the experience of skydiving.And, of course, proletarian origin.
Of the five chosen one.Tereshkova, whose biography was the same as that of millions of Soviet women, the approach could not be better.Born in a small village in the heart of Russia.His father, the farm tractor was killed on Finnish, his mother - a weaver.At the age of seven, all Soviet children went to school, where I studied for seven years.Then - work on the tire plant in Yaroslavl on the working class.The most common biography.Tereshkova studied at night school and studied at the flying club parachuting.The number of jumps - 10.
desire for personal and career growth, expressed a desire to learn that the girl was admitted to the College of Light Industry.Place of work (textile factory) and specialized education could be the key to a successful career.But it happened anyway, since 1962 began its space biography.Tereshkova was admitted to the party, has been trained and passed the exam.After a year and three months later she made her first and only space flight, which lasted three days, during which it manned spacecraft "Vostok-6" 48 times circled the globe.
mission took place is not easy.Having difficulty with orientation "East" in weightlessness Valentina felt very bad, she could not have, but strong-willed qualities allowed to successfully complete the flight.
Glory, which could only dream of the most famous people of the world, has not gone to the head of a young woman.Tereshkova - cosmonaut, her biography begins with the words "world's first" almost like Yuri Gagarin.Street named after her, composed about her songs, she smiled with stamps.But Valentina is not resting on its laurels, she studied at the Air Force Academy named.Zhukovsky, and then has been preparing a new generation of space explorers.In addition, she was keen on social activities, was repeatedly elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
Married Valentina came in the same star for her in 1963.The wedding was played at his residence on the Sparrow (then Lenin) mountains less than half a year after spaceflight.Among the guests was very CPSU First Secretary Nikita Khrushchev.Apparently, it was he who decided what should be its further biography.Tereshkova Andrian Nikolayev married, too astronaut.The couple had a daughter, Lena, who to date - the only person in the world, both of whose parents were on orbit.Despite this unique fact, family life is a failure.In the words of the Tereshkova can judge that her husband has been reported for despotism.After the divorce, she married again, this time for a doctor Yulia Shaposhnikova.
