Who was Tereshkova's first husband. Tereshkova's daughter's personal life. Early years, family
Personal life of daughter Tereshkova
"Santa Barbara" rests next to such passions!
Dear Sirs! The other day I watched a film on ORT “The Personal Life of Valentina Tereshkova”. The film is intriguing. I was sincerely interested in the footage where a certain man, not represented by his first name and surname, turns Tereshkova's grandson Alyosha by the arms around him. The footage was accompanied by the voice of Kirill Lavrov: "Tereshkova's daughter has long been happily married." The question arises: how long is it? Why didn't you introduce your husband? And here's why: in this very man, implied, apparently, as a husband, I recognized Andrei Rodionov, a man whom I have known for more than a quarter of a century (since ten years) and who has been my sister's husband for 20 years. Before his divorce from his sister, this is how he liked to have fun with his nephew - my son.
Unfortunately, my own sister, Elena Rodionova, unwittingly crossed paths with Elena Mayorova (daughter of V. Tereshkova) in such a “Santa Barbara”, which is where the mentioned series is! If I had not witnessed what happened, I would never have believed it! Life, it turns out, presents such plots that it would never occur to any screenwriter!
Therefore, I break the story into series, bearing in mind the possible continuation of the film "The Personal Life of Valentina Tereshkova" at least under the working title "The Personal Life of Tereshkova's Daughter."
Natalia Egorova
1st series. Happy Soviet childhood
A simple Soviet family lives for itself (cosmonauts Tereshkova and Nikolaev), having given birth to a daughter, Elena, who does not eat well (still), but listens a lot and absorbs her mother's model of behavior. After some time, the parents divorce, and the mother tries to prevent the father from seeing her daughter - the situation is ordinary. Elena's parents have long been friends with Professor Shaposhnikov's family, from where, after some time, V. Tereshkova takes the professor away (the story of Tereshkova's daughter to her ex-husband) and lives happily ever after with him. My daughter grows up and goes to medical school. A certain Greek (but kind!) Millionaire tried to get rid of the future doctor and medicine, offering Elena as much as a million dollars for a transfer to MGIMO. But the deal fell through for some reason, Elena graduated from the institute. Mom got her daughter a job at CITO under the supervision of Shaposhnikov (where after a while Elena was forbidden to stay on night shifts and in general they began to bring her to work in a company car and take her away from work - just in case).
We show the life of another simple Soviet family at the time Elena graduated from the medical institute - its head is the former chief of the 235th government air squadron, the former personal pilot of Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and Gorbachev, Major General of Aviation Alexei Grigorievich Mayorov, who at that moment was the representative of Aeroflot in Stockholm. They say that without A. G. Mayorov at the helm, Raisa Maksimovna Gorbacheva refused to fly at all. Alexei Grigoryevich and his wife, Lidia Ivanovna Mayorov, have an adult son, Igor, who graduated from the Aviation Institute and a flight school and works as a pilot at Sheremetyevo. It should be noted that there was a certain social difference between the Tereshkova and Mayorov families. Well, Tereshkova’s biography is known - her merits are great, she is a universal idol, several generations have been raised by her example. Elena, who was born in the family of the first female astronaut, was personally sent diapers by Queen Elizabeth II. Igor, on the other hand, was born in the family of an Il-14 co-pilot, the Mayorov family received their first apartment when Igor went to the 2nd grade. Alexei Grigorievich Mayorov spent many years achieving his position in aviation, so Igor did not acquire the habits of the “golden youth”.
Once Elena Tereshkova accidentally saw Igor Mayorov. This is where it started! It is difficult to say what motivated her - it happened in 1990, by that time the young lady was exactly 26 years old, it is quite possible to assume that she was unbearable to get married, and Igor could like it: a handsome pilot with a perspective, from a good family.
In any case, Elena launched an unprecedented attack on Igor. She began to look for common acquaintances - and they, of course, were found. Igor knew that they were trying to get to know him, but he shied away as best he could, realizing that the starting conditions of the family were different. Once, when Igor, barely alive from fatigue, returned from a flight in the evening, a glorious company of acquaintances was already waiting for him in the kitchen of his parents' apartment, and at the entrance stood a black service Volga by Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, bristling with antennas, in which a stranger who introduced herself as Elena, the daughter of Valentina Tereshkova. Taking advantage of Igor's stupefaction and fatigue, he was stuffed into the Volga and taken to Star City on an excursion to the local museum, which was opened even at night on such an occasion.
The siege of the younger Mayorov was carried out according to all the rules of fortification art. The next assault was replaced by a lull, then a new onslaught followed. The situation was aggravated by the fact that at that time Igor was 31 years old, and being single at this age for a pilot of international flights is not good, as the leadership of the detachment reminded him more and more insistently. Yes, and parents dreamed of grandchildren.
Igor, attacked from all sides, tried to warn the young lady that the attributes of "social life" (party receptions in embassies, Mercedes, villas, etc.)
) is of little interest. The last straw was Elena's complaints about the tyranny of her mother, who even allows herself to dissolve her hands (“mother cracked her face so hard that the earrings flew out of her ears”). And in general, if Igor does not marry her, she can only hang herself.
In October 1992, Elena, taking only the necessary personal belongings, runs away from her mother to Igor, they hide in the dachas of friends - they are waiting for V. Tereshkova to cool down. The latter, in an attempt to return her daughter, calls A. G. Mayorov in Stockholm and rashly threatens to put Igor in jail, because he allegedly taught her daughter to drugs and robbed her apartment.
Deciding that the young lady at the age of 28, after all, is probably ripe for family life, tired of the attacks of her superiors and, in addition, pitying “Cinderella with a living mother”, Igor still marries Elena Tereshkova (now Mayorova). A modest wedding took place on November 28, 1992 in the apartment of Igor's parents, only 12 people attended, including the newlyweds. Elena's mother, V. Tereshkova, was not at the wedding.
Somehow, Elena almost quits CITO by mail (it is clear that the road to her is now booked), she sits without a job for a year until Alexei Grigorievich arranges for her to be a flight squad doctor at the Aeroflot Medical Center on Sokol - a high salary plus 4 guaranteed business trips abroad per year (possible with her husband).
Elena was lucky: Alexei Grigorievich, who had dreamed of a daughter all his life, was happy to receive her at least in the form of a daughter-in-law. A young married couple has “the whole world in their pocket”: fur coats, cars, Australia, France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Malta, Cyprus, Indonesia, UAE, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and a three-room apartment in the south-west of Moscow (carefully left young, like everything else, by Alexei Grigorievich Mayorov). At the same time, Igor earns well.
The young people have already seen the world enough, and in 1995 their son Alyosha is born, named after his grandfather, a pilot. Grandpa is happy. Now diapers are sent for Alyosha, though not by the English queen, but still by the Swedish princess. From Stockholm, where the grandfather then worked, everything else (which the princess did not guess) is brought in, which is necessary for the grandson.
Relations between Elena Mayorova (and her son-in-law, too, this is understandable) and V. Tereshkova completely ceased - both sides did not want to know about each other for 7 years, now they did not see their “adored” grandson Tereshkov until the latter was 4 years old.
The whole world in your pocket: Australia... |
True, Alexei Grigorievich insisted that Elena reconcile with her mother, but she declared every time (especially after the birth of her son): “My mother will never see her grandson in the same way as her own ears.” However, this is not important, because there is another loving grandmother - Lydia Ivanovna.
The daughter of Tereshkova, recently modest Elena, who came to the Mayorov family, resumes her craving for jewelry, expensive fur coats and cars. Slowly, meanwhile, the relations of the newlyweds are going wrong, Elena wakes up (in addition to greed) the commanding nature of her mother, and Igor increasingly prefers to spend his free time in the garage, for which he is severely criticized by his wife.
End of the first series.
2nd series. Hungry Soviet childhood and stone toys
Moscow, 1960s, Sretenka, an apartment that has not been renovated. Andrey Rodionov and his mother grow up and dream about the future in it. Papa Andrei left the family for another woman when his son was 5 years old. Then he returned several times, so Andrei did not particularly notice his absence. When the boy was 15 years old, his parents remarried, having given birth to another son. Then the scheme repeated itself - when Rodion, Andrei's younger brother, was 5 years old, his parents broke up again. Andrei's father married a young lady who bore him two children, but fate did not favor the young lady - Andrei's father died in a car accident. The fate of Andrei's mother also did not work out. At the age of about 38, she reconnected with a former family friend and gave birth to a daughter, Anya, who is a year younger than my niece. They live very poorly.
Andrei knows that he can only rely on himself in this life, so he enters the Aktobe Flight School, graduates from it and receives a distribution to Lipetsk. But since school he has been friends with my sister Elena, whom he marries. Here, of course, our dad, who at that time served in the Main Directorate of Personnel of the Ministry of Defense in a considerable rank, makes a couple of calls, and his son-in-law immediately turns out to be a pilot of a geodetic squadron based in Myachkovo, near Moscow. Then he goes to the civil aviation pilots of Domodedovo. A young couple has a daughter, Ira. Everyone is happy.
November 28, 1992. The registry office at the corner of Leninsky Prospekt and st. Lobachevsky. Marriage of Igor Mayorov and Elena, daughter of Tereshkova |
But difficult times come, Andrey is simultaneously trying to do business in order to feed his family. However, the business ends, leaving Andrei with only a used BMW and a garage. True, Andrei's mother helps with the apartment, who at one time worked at the housing office on Sretenka, having done some kind of operation, so the newlyweds are fine with housing - a three-room apartment on Sokol. So they lived for twenty years. It happened differently. In recent years, pilots were paid little, so my sister accounted for a large part of the earnings. Andrey, we must give him his due, tried: he became the commander of the ship at Domodedovo, and then (albeit with a demotion) made his way into co-pilots at Sheremetyevo. As usual, my whole family helped him in this, and this time it’s hard to say whether he got there himself or requests helped, or maybe both.
And Igor Mayorov and Andrey Rodionov did not know not only that their destinies would cross, but simply did not know each other - there are still many pilots in Sheremetyevo.
End of the second series.
Ending in the next issue.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (March 6, 1937, village of Bolshoe Maslennikovo, Tutaevsky district, Yaroslavl region) - Soviet cosmonaut, the 1st woman cosmonaut in the world. The only woman to fly solo into space.
Life before flight
Valentina was born into a family of peasants who came from Belarus. Her father was a tractor driver and died during the Soviet-Finnish war. Mother worked in a textile factory. Valentina had a good ear for music, so she learned to play the domra.
After graduating from 7th grade, she began working as a bracelet maker at the Yaroslavl Tire Plant. At the same time she studied at night school. Then for 7 years she worked as an ordinary weaver at the Krasny Perekop plant. During this period, Valentina took part-time studies at the technical school of light industry. Then she began to go in for parachuting at a local flying club. It would seem that her life is developing according to an already prescribed scenario. But then an event happened that changed the whole life of an ordinary factory worker.
Sergei Korolev decided to send a female cosmonaut into space. In 1962, the search for applicants began according to the following criteria: age up to 30 years, parachutist, weight up to 70 kg and height up to 170 cm. As a result, five were selected: T. Kuznetsova, Zh. V. Tereshkova. All the girls were called up for urgent military service. What awaited Tereshkova next?
1962 - began to be trained as a student-cosmonaut. I passed the OKP exams with excellent marks and became a cosmonaut of the 1st detachment. During the training, Valentina underwent special training for the body's resistance. For example, in a thermal chamber it was necessary to stay at a temperature of +70 °C, and in a chamber isolated from sounds, the candidate had to stay for 10 days. Particular attention was paid to skydiving.
Flight
June 16, 1963 - made the world's first flight of a female cosmonaut. Tereshkova went into space on the Vostok-6 spacecraft. Her flight lasted almost three days. On the day of her 1st flight into space, Valentina Tereshkova told her family that she was going to the skydiving competition. They learned about the real state of affairs from the news on the radio.
When choosing the first female cosmonaut, political issues were also taken into account. The advantage of Tereshkova was that she was from the workers, and her father died in the war. When, after the flight, Valentina was asked how the SRSR could thank her, she asked to find her father's grave. No less important was the ability of the candidate to conduct social activities - to speak in public, demonstrating the advantages of the Soviet system. It should be noted that when Tereshkova was appointed as a spacecraft pilot, she was 10 years younger than the youngest American astronaut of the first detachment.
N. Kamanin, who was involved in the selection of cosmonauts, noted that Tereshkova had a better start than Nikolaev and Popovich. Valentina's call sign for the duration of the flight is "Seagull". Before the start, she said: “Hey! Sky! Take off your hat! (quote from a poem by V. Mayakovsky). True, during the flight, Tereshkova did not cope well with the orientation of the spacecraft. This was due to improper installation of control wires. Therefore, Valentina had to put new data into the computer. She was silent about this case for 40 years, Korolev himself asked her not to tell anyone anything.
Tereshkova's problems during the flight also had a physiological explanation. Note that according to the results of the medical examination, her performance was the worst. But thanks to the intervention of Nikita Khrushchev, she was nevertheless identified as an astronaut. Her social background played a decisive role.
Despite severe physical discomfort, Tereshkova withstood as many as 48 revolutions around the planet. While in space, she kept a special logbook and took photographs of the horizon, which were later used to detect aerosol layers in the Earth's atmosphere.
"Vostok-6" landed in the Baevsky district of the Altai Territory. True, Tereshkova was accused of violating the regime: she distributed food from the astronaut's diet to local residents, while she herself ate local food. After Tereshkova's flight, Sergei Korolev said: "As long as I'm alive, no other woman will fly into space!" There was some truth in these words, because the next flight of a Soviet woman into space took place 19 years later.
What happened after?
After a space flight, Valentina Vladimirovna entered the Air Force Engineering Academy, from which she graduated with honors. She later became a professor and wrote more than fifty scientific papers.
1966-1989 - Deputy of the Supreme Council.
1968-1987 - Head of the Soviet Women's Committee.
1969-1997 - Worked as an instructor-cosmonaut.
1969 - became a member of the World Peace Council.
1971-1989 - Member of the Central Committee of the CPSU.
1974-1989 - was a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Council.
1992 - headed the Presidium of the Russian Association for International Cooperation.
1997 - becomes a senior researcher at the Cosmonaut Training Center.
1994-2004 - Headed the Russian Center for International Scientific and Cultural Cooperation.
2008-2011 - Deputy from the party "United Russia" in the Yaroslavl Regional Duma.
2011 - elected to the State Duma. Tereshkova is a member of a deputy group that defends Christian values. In particular, she advocates for amendments to the Constitution, according to which "Orthodoxy is the basis of Russia's national identity." It should be noted that with the assistance of Tereshkova, a university was opened in Yaroslavl, a river station and a planetarium were built. In addition, she constantly provides assistance to the Yaroslavl orphanage and her native school.
According to official data for 2012, Tereshkova owns a land plot of 1,500 m², a house of 607 m², 1.5 apartments of 175 m², and 2 cars.
Immediately after the flight into space, Valentina Vladimirovna married cosmonaut A. Nikolaev. The wedding was celebrated in a government mansion, even Khrushchev was among the guests. In 1964, the couple had a daughter, Elena. But in 1982 this marriage was annulled. Once Tereshkova mentioned that her first husband was a real despot. Valentina's second husband was Major General of the Medical Service Yuli Shaposhnikov. In 1999 he died.
As a reward for her flight, Tereshkova received a 3-room apartment in Yaroslavl, where she moved with her mother, aunt and niece. But she lived in this apartment for no more than three years, since she decided to settle in Moscow.
Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in Russia to receive the rank of major general. Tereshkova is the only Soviet citizen whose portrait was placed on a coin during her lifetime.
Favorite planet of Valentina Vladimirovna is Mars. Having seen all the earth's continents from space, Tereshkova decided to definitely visit Australia and not so long ago she realized this dream.
In 1969, Tereshkova was in a car that was fired upon during the assassination attempt on L. Brezhnev. Not hurt.
Valentina Vladimirovna has been friends with the famous singer Elena Obraztsova for almost 50 years.
Tereshkova was awarded the title of "The Greatest Woman of the 20th Century". Named after her:
- minor planet 1671 Chaika;
- a crater on the moon;
- streets in Odessa, Ulan-Ude, Ulyanovsk, Novosibirsk, Gudermes;
- embankment in Evpatoria;
- square in Tver;
- schools in Yaroslavl, Novocheboksarsk, Karaganda;
- museum "Cosmos";
- planetarium in Yaroslavl.
Tereshkova is dedicated to the songs of the Dutch group Stone Oak Cosmonaut, Sofia Rotaru, the English group Komputer and the Polish group Filipinki.
Celebrity biography - Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in the world to conquer space. On June 16, 1963, Valentina flew into outer space. For the entire former USSR, and for the whole world, it was a sensation. Many years later, the woman who conquered space was talked about all over the world.
Childhood
Future fame was born in the Yaroslavl region in the village of Bolshoe Maslennikovo on March 6, 1937. A poor family in the village, who would have thought that the future celebrity would be born there? Absolutely no one, but it had to happen. Valya's mother worked on a collective farm, her father died in the Soviet-Finnish war, before the war he worked as a tractor driver. Having survived the war in the village, in 1945 the family moved to the city of Yaroslavl. Mom had to feed three children, and she gets a job at a factory for the manufacture of technical fabrics. Valya was the second child in the family, besides her there were also her younger brother Volodya and older sister Lyudmila.
After moving to the city, the girl went to school number 32, which currently bears her name. Valentina had a good ear for music, so during her school years she studied music, learning to play the domra.
Path to glory
After graduating from seven classes, the girl decided to go to work to help her family. She went to work at a tire plant in Yaroslavl, as a bracelet maker in the assembly shop. The work was not easy, especially considering the age of the girl. Simultaneously with work, she combined her studies at an evening school. In 1955, she went to work as a weaver at a local factory, where her mother and sister had been working for many years.
In 1959, she began parachuting at a local flying club. She has 90 jumps to her credit. The girl spends sports in her free time from work and study. In 1955 he entered the correspondence department at the technical school of light industry. After 2 years, she entered the Komsomol, and even after 3 years she received the position of the released secretary of the Komsomol committee, Valentina worked in this position for 2 years.
Almost at the same time in 1962, the famous designer Sergei Korolev voiced the idea of sending a woman into space for the first time. At the highest level of the leadership of the Communist Party of those years, the idea found a response and was approved. The only thing left to do is to find a suitable candidate. So, the search began, it was rather difficult, because the strictest requirements were imposed on the candidates for the conquest of space. Here are some of them. A woman must be in parachuting. Height should not exceed 170 cm, and weight 70 kilograms.
Initially, 5 girls were selected from a huge number, Valentina Tereshkova was one of them. They were given the task of going through a grueling workout, it took place every day. Already during this training, it became clear that there was only one candidate left - Valentina Tereshkova. It is she who will conquer space. This event of world importance took place in 1963.
Valentina Vladimirovna was greeted as a national hero
In the photo: Y. Gagarin, P. Popovich, V. Tereshkova and N. Khrushchev
Personal life
In 1963, she married the famous cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolaev. It was the first couple in the world to conquer space. An amazing and unusual wedding took place on the Lenin Hills in the government mansion. Khrushchev himself was present at the star wedding. All the years spent in marriage, Valentina bore the double surname of Nikolaeva-Tereshkova. After 19 years, the marriage broke up and was officially annulled after their daughter Elena celebrated her majority. According to the memoirs of Valentina Tereshkova, Andriyan was a wonderful person, everywhere except at home. At home, his character was despotic.
Wedding of pilot-cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Andriyan Nikolaev
The second husband of Valentina was Yuli Shaposhnikov, a well-known personality in medical circles, he worked as director of the Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics.
Daughter Elena followed in the footsteps of her stepfather and also became an orthopedic surgeon, since 2013 she has been working in this position at CITO. She has been married twice and has two sons.
For the conquest of space, Tereshkova was awarded a separate apartment in Yaroslavl, where she lived with her mother, aunt and her daughter.
Russia was and remains the first in everything. We went into space first. Yuri Gagarin became the first space hero.
However, he was not the only one who was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. In addition to Gagarin, about 10 cosmonauts were sent into space at different times. Among them was Valentina Tereshkova, the first female cosmonaut.
Valentina Tereshkova
In this article we will talk about who Valentina Tereshkova really is - what is interesting in her biography and personal life for our contemporaries.
Valentina Tereshkova was born in the Yaroslavl region on March 6, 1937. Its history began in a small village, which is difficult to see on the map of Russia (formerly the USSR). Her parents are from Belarus. None of them even thought that their daughter would become the first woman in the USSR to go into space.
Tereshkova's mother worked at a textile factory. Father was a tractor driver. Unfortunately, the Tereshkova family managed to live happily for a short time. Valentina's father died in the Soviet-Finnish war. Naturally, this was a great loss for the family.
Valentina Tereshkova in childhood and adolescence
It's not just that they lost a loved one. There was one less breadwinner in the family. The mother had to work even harder to at least provide her family with everything necessary.
In 1945, Tereshkova went to school in Yaroslavl. Then no one knew about Valentina Tereshkova. The school now bears her name. Students know Valentina's biography inside and out. Schoolchildren are of little interest in the personal life of the Soviet star. Her cosmic feat is important to them.
Valya was a diligent student. She did not want to upset her mother, so she received exceptionally high marks. In addition to studying, Tereshkova was engaged in playing the dombra. Vali had a good ear for music. It is possible that if Tereshkova had not become an astronaut, she would have connected her life with music.
After 7 years of schooling, Tereshkova went to work. She wanted to help her family financially, so she got a job at the Yaroslavl tire factory. Despite the desire to support her family, the young girl did not drop out of her studies. She went to school in the evening.
Valentina Tereshkova went in for parachuting
Just at this time, Valentina was fascinated by parachuting. She attended the local flying club. Tereshkova was a fearless girl. Unlike her "colleagues" in the club, jumping was very easy for her.
It was parachuting that became a landmark in the biography of Valentina Tereshkova. At that time, a set of female paratroopers with certain parameters was announced, one of which was supposed to fly into space.
Who else but Tereshkova could still go into space?
Of course, Valentina Tereshkova was not the only contender for the title of the first Soviet woman cosmonaut. Besides her, there were 3 other girls. Why was Tereshkova chosen? One of the reasons is her impeccable biography and personal life. The second reason is that she really was the best prepared.
Let's remember who could go along with Tereshkova to surf the galaxy. Among them were Valentina Ponomareva, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Irina Solovieva, Zhanna Erkina. Each of them dreamed of becoming the first.
Irina Solovieva, Tatyana Kuznetsova, Zhanna Yorkina, Valentina Ponomareva, Valentina Tereshkova and Sergei Korolev
Khrushchev had the final say. It was he who decided which of the girls would become the first astronaut. Perhaps, in addition to the reasons we have listed above, why they chose her, there were some others. However, nothing is known about them. Only Tereshkova knows why she went into space, and not someone else. Especially since all the girls-candidates deserved it.
Valentina Tereshkov in her youth
How was the fate of the other girls?
Two of the girls never went into space. However, this did not prevent them from arranging their lives in the best way. Ponomareva became an aviation colonel. She defended her dissertation and now works at the Institute of the History of Natural Science and Technology.
Valentina Tereshkova in training
Solovyov, like Ponomareva, Ph.D. She works at the astronaut training test center. Solovieva also took part in Antarctic and Arctic expeditions. The famous women's team "Metelitsa" became native to her.
After the flight, the foreign press nicknamed Valentina Tereshkova "Miss Universe". From a girl unknown to anyone, she became a real star on a cosmic scale. Now the journalists wanted to know everything about her: her biography, something from the personal life of the astronaut.
For Valentina, June 16, 1963 was a decisive day. She ended up in orbit under the call sign "Seagull". Before Tereshkova, only 10 people made a space trip around the earth.
Valentina Tereshkova getting ready for space flight
For 3 days, while Tereshkova was outside our planet, journalists learned more and more about her. She returned to earth as the most famous girl in the Soviet Union. She was solemnly welcomed at the airport. Tereshkova walked the red carpet and was nominated for awards. She became the only female general in Russia.
The authorities in every possible way supported the myth that a man from outer space is returning as if from a resort. Naturally, being at that time in aircraft, it was difficult to talk about any comfort. However, Soviet citizens had to believe that flying for astronauts was a matter of course.
Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova
Interesting facts from Tereshkova's flight
How do you imagine the aircraft of that time? It is now that astronauts use laptops, read newspapers and have fun in flight. In the 60s, at least minimal comfort could only be dreamed of.
The astronaut must spend all the time in flight lying down. He was unable to walk or move anywhere. Agree, lying for 3 days in one position is not an easy task. Moreover, for some it is simply not feasible. Only not for Tereshkova and other male cosmonauts who had already flown into space before her.
Valentina Tereshkova in space
It is known that Yuri Gagarin, returning from his first flight, could not recover for several days in a row. The man forgot his name, the date and the name of the aircraft designer. Gagarin is one of those people who has always been cheerful and energetic. However, after returning from space, Yuri was melancholy for several days in a row. Even if a man strong in both body and spirit behaves like this after a flight, then what could be said about a woman, even if not as fragile as others.
Now that Valentina Tereshkova's fame has subsided a little and only a few are still interested in her biography and personal life, she is ready to tell how the flight actually went.
Initially, they wanted to send the girl into space in a brand new lieutenant uniform. Later, Tereshkova was sent to change clothes. The authorities decided that the "militarist note" is useless here.
The start of the flight was, surprisingly, successful. But what happened next, only Tereshkova and the leaders of the launch knew. It turns out that an inaccuracy was made in the automatic program of the aircraft.
Valentina Tereshkova and Yuri Gagarin
You can't call it insignificant. The mistake was so serious that the girl could simply not return to earth. The flying ship was oriented so that instead of descending, it raised the orbit. It turns out that Tereshkova did not approach the Earth, but moved away from it.
Naturally, Tereshkova immediately reported this problem to the Queen. The day after the flight, the system was fixed. Gradually the ship adjusted to the correct course.
Nobody knew about this error for several decades. Valentina Tereshkova decided to talk about this only when such information began to penetrate the press without her knowledge.
Tereshkova's personal life
Some time ago, information “walked” on the Internet that Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was unhappy in her personal life. As if Khrushchev changed her biography, who married her to Valya's first husband, Andriyan Nikolaev. Actually, it's all fiction.
Valentina Tereshkova with her first husband Andrian Nikolaev
Tereshkova's first husband began courting her even before the flight. Andrian was 10 years older than Valentina. It is possible that this is one of the reasons why they broke up. The lovers got married 5 months after Tereshkova's flight.
Some of Valentina's acquaintances believed that their marriage would really only be good for politics or science. After all, the lovers were completely different. Valentine is fire. Andrian - water. Both Tereshkova and Nikolaev were strong-willed people. Giving in to another is an incomprehensible task for them. Many have noticed this.
The marriage of Tereshkova and Nikolaev lasted 19 years. A year after the wedding, they had a daughter.
Valentina was constantly traveling around the country. Her husband at that time was preparing for a new flight (Nikolaev was also an astronaut).
Tereshkova has repeatedly admitted in her circle of relatives that her first husband is a real despot. It is possible that the last years of their life together they were together only for the sake of their daughter. The couple broke up when she was 18 years old.
Valentina Tereshkova with her husband and daughter
Tereshkova and Nikolaev stopped appearing together in 1979. At that time, to get a divorce meant that the career of astronauts would have to end. This is especially true for Nikolaev. Moreover, some astronauts were indeed suspended from work due to divorces. It could also have a detrimental effect on Valentina. At that time she was the chairman of the Committee of Soviet Women.
According to some reports, Brezhnev played one of the main roles in the biography of Valentina Tereshkova. It was he who decided the issue of divorce. It was lucky that Valya had only one daughter from the children. Plus, at the time of the divorce, she was already an adult.
Tereshkova's second husband
The second marriage for Tereshkova was happier. They met in 1978. Tereshkova hoped to fly into space again. For this, she underwent a medical examination. Her second husband, Julius Shaposhnikov, was one of the members of the medical commission who passed the verdict on the astronauts.
Valentina Tereshkova and Julius Shaposhnikov
Relatives and friends of Tereshkova say that it was immediately obvious from Valentina and Julia that they were in love with each other. The couple had no children. But that didn't stop them from being happy. Look at the photo. Here Valentina is depicted with her second husband.
Valentina Tereshkova: photo
Tereshkova lived with her second husband for 20 years. It is possible that they would be together to this day. However, in 1999 Julius died.
What is Tereshkova doing now?
After learning about the biography of Valentina Tereshkova, her personal life and children, readers will be interested to know what the former cosmonaut is doing now.
Valentina Tereshkova now
This year, Valentina celebrated her 80th birthday. She is currently a member of the State Duma. Tereshkova is trying to do everything and even a little more for her native region - the Yaroslavl region.
The first woman who went back in 1963 to conquer interplanetary space was Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova. She piloted the spacecraft alone, thus providing scientists with material for studying the influence of various environmental factors on the female body.
Until now, the legendary female astronaut remains the first and only one who was ever able to fly a comic ship without the help of other crew members. Valentina Tereshkova, whose name is forever inscribed in the history of the space industry in golden letters, in the eyes of many compatriots and people around the world remains an amazing and fragile woman with an iron character.
The woman, who became a legendary figure in the field of astronautics and the first to receive the rank of major general, was born and brought up in a family of ordinary workers. Valentina Tereshkova, whose biography will be described briefly in this publication, was born on one of the beautiful spring days - March 6, back in 1937. How the life and career of Valentina Tereshkova, who received the status of "the first woman-cosmonaut", developed further, read on.
Early childhood and youth
The life path of the future Hero of the Soviet Union began in the village of Bolshoe Maslennikovo, located west of Yaroslavl, in the Tutaevsky district. The girl's parents, who settled here, not only did housework, but also promoted the industry in the country: the mother - textile, and the father - agricultural production.
The family of the future cosmonaut devoted himself completely to work in order to put the country on its feet in the post-war period. Therefore, the childhood of young Vali was not as joyful as she would have liked. Valentina calls the early years of her life a difficult childhood, memories of which are associated with devastation, grief, despair and pain of loss. The fact is that the father of little Valya died during the hostilities during the Soviet-Finnish war (1939-1940).
Five years after the death of her father, when the Great Patriotic War ended, in 1945, Valentina Tereshkova entered school. But, alas, the girl did not have a chance to master the sciences perfectly. After 7 years she had to leave school. The reason for this was the difficult financial situation of the family, because Vali's father died at the front, and it was difficult for his mother to manage the household alone.
Therefore, the future cosmonaut Tereshkova, a few days after the end of the seventh grade, leaves for the city of Yaroslavl, where she gets a job at a factory. But Valentina's thirst for knowledge did not disappear. During the day, she worked at a tire factory, and after work she ran to classes in the "evening" in order to master the general training program among other people representing the working class of Soviet society. And already at that time, the future cosmonaut showed interest in flights.
Vali's new hobby
Skydiving from an airplane turned out to be especially exciting and exciting for her. When you find out how many jumps she made in total, you might be surprised, because the number 163 (namely, how many times Valentina jumped with a parachute) is a very outstanding indicator even for a man, not to mention the fact that Valya was still a girl!
But the classes at the aviation club did not portend the heights that Tereshkova Valentina Vladimirovna was able to achieve as a result.
By chance, parachutist Valya Tereshkova in the early 60s learned about the idea of the famous Soviet designer and active figure in the rocket and space industry Sergei Korolev to send a woman on a star journey. She almost immediately had a burning desire to go on a long space flight. Moreover, Valentina Tereshkova is one of the few candidates who ideally meet the criteria by which Sergey Korolev and other organizers of the project select. Namely:
- Height no more than 1 m 70 cm.
- Weight no more than 70 kg.
- Age not older than 30 years.
It must be said that there were practically no Soviet women who wanted to go on a journey to the stars, the exact duration of which was not reported at the initial stage of the selection. Thus, Valentina Tereshkova became one of the candidates applying for a pilot position in the Vostok-6 spacecraft. As a result, only five girls passed the selection, who were waiting for intensive training and long theoretical classes at the space school.
But the most striking thing was that she decided to hide the real purpose of her departure from her loved ones: before flying into space, Valya simply told everyone that she was leaving for the next parachuting competition. Relatives learned about Tereshkova's heroic journey as a fait accompli when they heard the news on the radio.
3 – 2 – 1… Launch
In what year did the historic flight of the first woman astronaut take place? In 1963, one of the June days. From that moment, the biography of Valentina Tereshkova began a new round, where she is no longer just a parachutist and social activist, but also a woman who flew into space first and alone (that is, without a crew and team).
Those who are interested in the detailed details of Valentina Vladimirovna's journey among the stars, of course, also want to know what the exact time of the astronaut's flight was. It is worth noting that the duration of the stay of the first woman pilot of a spacecraft in orbit did not exceed three days. To be more precise, Valya Tereshkova spent 4850 minutes aboard the Vostok-6 spacecraft.
According to the flight reports, the first woman in space circled our planet 48 times, after which she took the ship to the planned landing site. True, the equipment on the spacecraft began to fail several hours before the expected landing time. As a result of the failure, Valentina Tereshkova was unable to start the Vostok-6 spacecraft for landing by her own efforts. However, thanks to the automatic curation function, the device was still landed on Earth, although many kilometers farther from the intended landmark.
After an extreme landing and a three-day fast, Valya exchanged her supplies for food with local residents, which upset Sergei Korolev himself, who later stated that with him no other representative of the female half of humanity would go to conquer outer space.
A little less than a quarter of a century will pass before a woman will fly into space again, the second after Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova. But by that time, Sergei Korolev will already be resting in the cemetery.
After star travel
As we said earlier, the representative of the working class, at the age of 26, conquered space. And at the same age, she got married, already being the owner of the title of "the first woman to conquer the expanses of space."
This marriage gave a crack about 5 years later, when the family already had the daughter of Valentina Tereshkova, Nikolaeva Elena Adrianovna. It is worth noting that she became the first child in the world, whose mother and father flew into space.
Over time, life under the same roof with the “despot” (as Valentina Vladimirovna will call him a few years after the divorce) will become impossible, and the wife will leave, taking her daughter and applying for an official divorce from the astronaut.
Although Tereshkova's personal life did not work out well the first time, the astronaut was still waiting for happiness. After an unsuccessful relationship with Adrian, she met her second husband, Yuli Shaposhnikov, with whom she failed to have common children. Julius had nothing to do with astronautics; he died on the eve of the new millennium, in 1999.
As for the daughter of Valentina Tereshkova, Elena also got married twice. And every time a pilot led her down the aisle:
- In the first case, it was Maiorov I.A., who gave Elena the first son of Alexei (date of birth 10/20/1995).
- In the second - Rodionov A.Yu., who became the father of Elena's second son, Andrei (date of birth 06/18/2004).
Children bear the names of their fathers and are currently mastering the sciences: the eldest is at Moscow State University, and the youngest is at school.
Having celebrated her next anniversary in March 2017, the eighty-year-old female cosmonaut Tereshkova is still actively engaged in political and social activities. The main priorities in her life are the family and grandchildren, with whom Valentina Vladimirovna loves to spend her free time. Author: Elena Suvorova