USSR pilot-cosmonaut V.V. Nikolaeva-Tereshkova

USSR. Moscow. June 16, 1964. The world's first female cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Nikolaeva-Tereshkova and the wife of the first USSR pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin Valentina Ivanovna (from right to left) in the maternity ward of the Moscow Regional Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology. On June 8, 1964, the couple of Soviet cosmonauts V.V. Nikolaeva-Tereshkova and A.G. Nikolaev gave birth to a daughter, Elena. Valentin Cheredintsev/TASS