An exemplary Soviet biography: Tereshkova Valentina

The twentieth century became the era of emancipation. Women became nuclear scientists, pilots, they played football, practiced other kinds of sports, until then, the former prerogative of the stronger sex.

The world's first state of workers and peasants hastened to consolidate their priority positions in everything that was considered the advanced edge of civilization. Our pioneer of space was our Gagarin. It was necessary to consolidate the success. A woman was needed to demonstrate the unprecedented opportunities that socialism provided to the working people, regardless of their gender.

In this case, the pretender to the place in the spacecraft should have been a suitable biography. Tereshkova, like the other four girls selected for the cosmonaut detachment, met the main requirements: excellent health, growth up to 1m 70 cm, weight less than 70 kg and experience of jumping with a parachute. And, naturally, proletarian origin.

Of the five selected one. Tereshkova, whose biography was the same as that of millions of Soviet girls, fit perfectly well. She was born in a small village, in the heart of Russia. Father, a collective farm tractor driver, died in Finnish, his mother a weaver. At the age of seven, like all Soviet children, I went to school, where I studied for seven years. Next - the work at the tire plant in Yaroslavl on the working class. The most common biography. Tereshkova studied in the evening school and was engaged in a flying club parachuting. The number of jumps is 10.

The desire for personal and career growth, the desire to learn was expressed in the fact that the girl entered the technical school of light industry. The place of work (textile combine) and specialized education could become the key to a successful career. But it happened differently, since 1962 her space biography began. Tereshkova was enlisted in the detachment, received training and successfully passed the exams. After a year and three months, she completed her first and only space flight, lasting three days, during which the manned spacecraft Vostok-6 flew 48 times around the globe.

The mission was not easy. There were difficulties with the orientation of the "East", in weightlessness felt Valentina Vladimirovna very badly, she could not, but the volitional qualities allowed to successfully complete the flight.

Glory, which only the most famous people of the planet could dream of, did not turn the head of a young woman. Tereshkova - an astronaut, her biography began with the words "the first in the world", almost like that of Yuri Gagarin. Her name was called the streets, she wrote songs about her, she smiled with 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 carried away by public activities, repeatedly elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR.

Married Valentina Vladimirovna left in the same starry for her in 1963. The wedding was played in the governmental residence on the Vorobyov (then Lenin) mountains less than six months after the space flight. Among the guests was the First Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, N. Khrushchev. Apparently, it was he who decided what should be her future biography. Tereshkova went for Andrian Nikolaev, also an astronaut. The couple had a daughter, Lena, who today is the only person on Earth who both parents have been in orbit. Despite this unique fact, family life failed. According to Tereshkova herself, it can be judged that her husband showed despotism in the relationship. After the divorce she again married, this time for the doctor Julia Shaposhnikova.