Valentina Tereshkova
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Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a Russian engineer, politician, and former Soviet cosmonaut. She was the first woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She orbited
Tereshkova in 2024
Tereshkova in January 1963
Tereshkova and Valery Bykovsky a few weeks before their mission
Vostok 6 capsule on temporary display in the Science Museum, London in 2016
Andriyan Nikolayev
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Andriyan Grigoryevich Nikolayev was a Soviet cosmonaut. In 1962, aboard Vostok 3, he became the third Soviet cosmonaut to fly into space. Nikolayev was an ethnic Chuvash and because of it is considere
Valentina Tereshkova
…and politicians including Tereshkova, which involves freezing assets and banning them from entering EU member states. Tereshkova married cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev on 3 November 1963 at the Moscow Wedding Palace with Khrushchev presiding at the wedding party together with top government and space programme leaders…
Nikolayev on a 1962 Soviet envelope
Wedding of Tereshkova and Nikolayev in 1963
Tereshkova and Nikolayev with Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō in 1965
Monument to Andriyan Nikolayev in Cheboksary