Valentina Vladimorovna Tereshkova
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Valentina Vladimorovna Tereshkova; Engineer Colonel, Red Air Force; born March 6, 1937, Maslennikovo, Yaroslavl region; married (to cosmonaut Andriyan Grigor’yevich Nikolayev), two children. Later divorced. Graduated from a textile technical school. She was the pilot of Vostok 6 and was the first woman to fly in space.