Valentina Tereshkova
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Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born 6 March 1937) is a Russian State Duma engineer and former cosmonaut.
She was the first and youngest woman to fly in space on the Vostok 6 on June 16, 1963.
She walked the Earth 48 times, spent nearly three days in space, and is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission. Tereshkova, a textile factory worker and an amateur skydiver before being selected for the Soviet space program.
After finishing her training, she joined the Air Force as part of the Cosmonaut Corps and was commissioned as an officer.
Tereshkova stayed in the space program as a cosmonaut instructor after the dissolution of the first group of female cosmonauts in 1969.
She graduated from the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy and re-qualified for spaceflight, but never went to space again.
She resigned from the Air Force in 1997 having been promoted to the rank of major general. Tereshkova served as a member of the Soviet Union's Communist Party, serving in various political positions, including being a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1974 to 1989.
Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, she remained politically active, but she lost two elections in 1995 and 2003.
Tereshkova was later elected to her regional parliament in 2008, the Yaroslavl Oblast Duma.
In 2011, she was elected to the National State Duma as a member of the Russian Federation and re-elected in 2016.
Early life
Valentina Tereshkova was born in 1937 in Bolshoye Maslennikovo, a village on the Volga River 270 kilometres (170 mi) northeast of Moscow and part of the Yaroslavl Oblast in central Russia. Her parents had immigrated from Belarus. Vladimir Tereshkov, her father, was a former tractor driver and sergeant in charge of a tank in the Soviet Army. Tereshkova was killed in the Finnish Winter War during World War II when he was two years old. Elena Fyodorovna Tereshkova and her mother Elena Fyodorovna Tereshkova had three children. Following her father's death, her mother moved the family to Yaroslavl in order to find more work and found herself a job at the Krasny Perekop cotton mill.
Tereshkova was first registered in kindergarten at the age of ten and graduated at the age of 17. She began working at a rubber plant and later at a textile mill, but she continued her education by enrolling correspondence courses and graduating from the Light Industry Technical School in 1960. Tereshkova started practicing parachuting at a young age and became interested in skydiving at the local Aeroclub, making her first appearance at age 22 in 1959. She began training as a textile worker and developed as a competitive chutist, retaining this information a mystery from her family. Tereshkova joined the local Komsomol (Communist Youth League) in Yaroslavl, serving as the secretary of the group in 1960 and 1961. In 1962, she became a member of the Communist Party.
Personal life
On November 3, 1963, Valentina married Cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev at the Moscow Wedding Palace, with Khrushchev preside at the wedding party alongside top government and space program heads. The marriage was deemed by Soviet space authorities as a "fairy-tale message to the world." It's been described as "probably useful for politics and science," according to General Kamanin, the space program's administrator. Elena Andrianovna Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, the first person with both a mother and father who had been to space, died on June 8, 1964, almost a year after she had.
The couple became estranged during their marriage and refused to even stand next to each other in photographs. Tereshkova told Lady Lothian that the marriage ended in 1977; she and Nikolayev divorced in 1982; Tereshkova married Yuli Shaposhchinikov, a surgeon she had encountered during her medical tests to re-qualify as a cosmonaut. They were married until Shaposhnikov's death in 1999.
Later political career
Following the demise of the Soviet Union, she stayed politically active, but she lost elections to the national State Duma in 1995. Tereshkova was promoted to the rank of major general in 1995. She left the Russian Air Force on April 28, 1997, after being 60 years old and forced retirement. Tereshkova ran for a seat in the State Duma in 2003. Tereshkova was invited to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's residence in Novo-Ogaryovo in 2007 to mark her 70th birthday. Also if it meant that it was a one-way trip, she said she would like to fly to Mars. She was subsequently elected to her regional parliament in 2008, the Yaroslavl Oblast Duma.
Tereshkova was elected in Lower House of the Russian parliament on December 4 as a representative of the Yaroslavl Oblast and a member of the United Russia Party. She was a member of the inter-factional committee for the protection of Christian values in the 6th State Duma, alongside Yelena Mizulina, Irina Yarovaya, and Andrey Skoch. "Orthodoxy is the foundation of Russia's national and cultural identity," she said in this capacity.
Tereshkova was re-elected to the 7th State Duma on September 18, 2016. She serves as the deputy chairperson of the Federal Structure and Local Government Commission.
During the drafting process for the 2020 revisions to Russia's Constitution, she suggested that the term limits for president Putin be lifted.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Treasury's Ukraine in response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Tereshkova has been added to the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Person List, resulting in her account being frozen and US citizens being forbidden from dealing with her.