BIOGRAPHY
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (1937 ) - astronaut , the first woman flown in space .She was born on March 6, 1937 in the small village of Yaroslavl region. Education in the biography of Valentina Tereshkova, was launched in 1945 in Yaroslavl school. After seven years, the school began to work at the plant , and in parallel with this she studied at night school . The next step in the educational biography Tereshkova was the College of Light Industry . During her studies there `s worked in a textile factory.In 1962 he became one of the contenders for the candidacy of the first woman to go into space . Took a lot of training - parachute , gravity , the stability of the flight. June 16, 1963 in his biography of Valentina Tereshkova made a space flight (48 revolutions around the Earth for 3 days ) on the ship " Vostok- 6". After the flight, he graduated from the Zhukovsky Air Force Academy