Word: vladimirovna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, 26, Soviet cosmonette who on June 16 became the first woman in space; and Major Andrian Grigorievich Nikolayev, 34, third Soviet cosmonaut; in a civil ceremony at Moscow's Wedding Palace, followed by a televised reception featuring songs, dances, a sit-down dinner for 300, and Nikita Khrushchev performing as father of both bride and groom, in which role he hoisted 21 toasts to the couple (sample: "May you have radar to avoid the griefs and obstacles of life...
...hear the Russians tell it, all the world's women were in chains before Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova. As the first woman cosmonaut looped the earth, Tass exulted: "A brilliant star has flared up in the cosmic firmament. It outshines all the film stars in the world. Never and in no country did women ever attain such height." In every Russian village, women celebrated, and congratulations were fired aloft from such Soviet heroines as Lyubi Li, described in the press as "the renowned corn planter and hero of Socialist labor...
...orbited Vostok V, piloted by Air Force Lieut. Colonel Valery Feodorovich Bykovsky, 28. LISTEN WORLD, headlined Izvestia, SOVIET MAN IS AGAIN STORMING THE COSMOS. But this time, Soviet Woman was storming right along. Two days later, Bykovsky was joined in orbit by the first female in space, Lieut. Valentina Vladimirovna Chereshkova, 26, at the controls of Vostok VI. In radio and television transmission to the breathless spectators on the ground, he referred to himself as "The Hawk," while she called herself "The Seagull...
After Seagull joined Hawk, there were more messages. Said Khrushchev: "Dear Valentina Vladimirovna, cordial congratulations to the world's first woman cosmonaut on the wonderful flight through the expanses of the universe ... A happy journey to you! We will be extremely glad to meet you on Soviet soil...