World Congress of Women in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. June 24, 1963. Chairperson of the Women's International Democratic Federation Eugenie Cotton, Chairperson of the Soviet Women's Committee Nina Vasilyevna Popova, the world's first female cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (left to right) during a break between sessions of the World Congress of Women in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Valentin Mastyukov/TASS