World Congress of Women in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. June 1963. Brigadier of the Vyshnevolotsk Cotton Mill Valentina Ivanovna Gaganova, the world's first female cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, Chairwoman of the Communist Party of Spain Dolores Ibarruri and Chairwoman of the Committee of Soviet Women Nina Vasilyevna Popova (from left to right) at a reception in honor of the World Congress of Women in the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. Valentin Sobolev/TASS