The twentieth century was the era of emancipation. Women became nuclear scientists, pilots, they played football, played other sports, until then the former prerogative of the stronger sex.
The first state in the world of workers and peasantsI was in a hurry to consolidate my priority positions in everything that was considered the cutting edge of civilization. The pioneer of space was our Gagarin. It was necessary to consolidate the success. A woman was needed to demonstrate the unprecedented opportunities that socialism offered to workers, regardless of their gender.
In this case, the candidate for a place in spacethe ship should have had a suitable biography. Tereshkova, like the other four girls selected for the cosmonaut corps, met the main requirements: excellent health, height up to 1m 70 cm, weight less than 70 kg and experience with parachute jumps. And, of course, proletarian origin.
Of the five, choose one.Tereshkova, whose biography was the same as that of millions of Soviet girls, was the best fit. Born in a small village, in the heart of Russia. The father, a collective farm tractor driver, died in Finnish, his mother was a weaver. At the age of seven, like all Soviet children, went to school, where she studied for seven years. Next - work at a tire factory in Yaroslavl on the working category. The most common biography. Tereshkova studied at night school and engaged in parachuting at the flying club. The number of jumps - 10.
The pursuit of personal and career growth,desire to learn was expressed in the fact that the girl entered the college of light industry. Place of work (textile mill) and specialized education could be the key to a successful career. But it happened differently, since 1962 its space biography began. Tereshkova was enrolled in the squad, was trained and successfully passed the exams. After a year and three months, she made her first and only space flight, which lasted three days, during which the Vostok-6 spacecraft she piloted circled the globe 48 times.
The mission was not easy.There were difficulties with the orientation of "Vostok", Valentina Vladimirovna felt very bad in weightlessness, she could not eat, but her volitional qualities allowed her to successfully complete the flight.
Glory, which could only dream the mostfamous people of the planet, did not turn the head of a young woman. Tereshkova is an astronaut, her biography began with the words “the first in the world,” almost like that of Yuri Gagarin. The streets were named after her, songs were composed about her, she smiled from postage stamps. But Valentina Vladimirovna did not rest on her laurels, she studied at the Air Force Academy. Zhukovsky, and then engaged in the preparation of a new generation of space explorers. In addition, she was keen on social activities, repeatedly elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.
Married Valentina Vladimirovna came out in the samestar for her in 1963. The wedding was played at the government residence on the Sparrow (then Lenin) Mountains less than six months after the space flight. Among the guests was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, N. S. Khrushchev. Apparently, it was he who decided what her further biography should be. Tereshkova married Andriana Nikolayev, also an astronaut. The couple had a daughter, Lena, who today is the only person on Earth who has both parents been in orbit. Despite this unique fact, family life failed. According to Tereshkova herself, one can judge that her husband showed her despotism in relations. After the divorce, she remarried, this time to the doctor Yulia Shaposhnikova.
