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 Committee of Soviet Women Nina Vasilyevna Popova and the world's first woman 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