World Congress of Women in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. June 24, 1963. Chairwoman of the Women's International Democratic Federation Eugenie Cotton (foreground) during a speech at the World Congress of Women in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses. Chairwoman of the Communist Party of Spain Dolores Ibarruri, USSR pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky, Chairwoman of the Committee of Soviet Women Nina Vasilyevna Popova, the world's first female cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (from left to right in the background) in the Presidium of the Congress. Valentin Sobolev/TASS