When is Tereshkova's birthday? Biography of Valentina Tereshkova: the path to a brilliant career, personal life. She is fire, he is water

Valentina Tereshkova recently turned 80 years old.

The attitude towards the first female cosmonaut is ambiguous.
It is believed that since she was launched into space only to prove the equality of men and women in the USSR, then her flight was somehow unreal. There was a lot of talk about how another girl was supposed to fly instead of her, but she got pregnant and couldn’t. They said that in space Tereshkova panicked and was unable to complete the program. They also insisted that she was sick in space. What do they care?
For some reason, they didn’t say anything like that about male cosmonauts, but since she’s a woman, every bastard is in line. By the way, Tereshkova is the only woman in the world who has completed a space flight alone.

This photo was taken no earlier than 1967. On it, together with Brezhnev and Tereshkova, cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky - he made his first flight at the same time as Tereshkova (he took off a day earlier on Vostok-5).

After the flight, Tereshkova became an important person and for the rest of her life she was a deputy of the Supreme Council, and then the State Duma.

An interesting point in her biography was her marriage to cosmonaut No. 3 Andrian Nikolaev. The astronauts had a daughter in their marriage.
From the very beginning, this marriage seemed unequal: an equal marriage for the first female cosmonaut would have been a marriage with the first male cosmonaut, that is, with Gagarin, but he was already married.

General Nikolai Kamanin wrote in his diary on November 10, 1963: “Yesterday at the airfield Valya and Andrian smiled and outwardly were quite happy with each other.... For politics and science, their marriage may be useful, but I’m not at all sure that Valya really loves Andrian. They are too different: she is fire, and he is water. Both are strong, strong-willed people, neither of them will voluntarily submit to the other... Nikolaev will gain more from this marriage, and Tereshkova can only lose" .
Andrian Grigorievich himself, in his first book, “Meet Me in Orbit,” published in 1966, writes tenderly and warmly about his wife: “We are happy. We found each other as the most cherished thing in life. We were united by common views on life, a common work, common goals and, as Valya said, one river. We are both from the Volga..." And already in his second book, "Space - a road without end", published in 1979, about Tereshkova - briefly and dryly.
They lived together for 8 years, and then separated, although they officially divorced only in the 80s.

On the occasion of Tereshkova’s anniversary, her daughter was shown. She is very similar to Nikolaev. But for some reason, her last name is now not Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, as it was at birth, but simply Tereshkova. It's strange somehow.

In the early 80s, Valentina Tereshkova met Yuli Germanovich Shaposhnikov, head of the Central Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics. They lived together until his death in 1999.

But Nikolaev never married again. The women of Zvezdny spoke of Nikolaev as an exemplary owner - thorough, managerial and “correct,” and usually added “too correct.” One of his neighbors told with admiration that Andrian Grigorievich’s house was perfectly clean, not a speck of dust. And then she added in surprise: “And this despite the fact that I have never seen a woman help him with housework!”

Nikolaev completely denied rumors that after the divorce he began to drink alcohol: “I never drank! It was one newspaper that wrote that cosmonaut Nikolaev was a completely drunk man. I sued her and won.”

When Nikolaev died, he was buried in Chuvashia.
“The Chuvash people deeply mourn their untimely death,” wrote Chuvash President Nikolai Fedorov in his obituary. “Andriyan Grigorievich was and remains the pride of Chuvashia.”

And that's true. Nikolaev was a Chuvash by nationality, born in Chuvashia. He was a deputy from Chuvashia. He was highly respected there.

But it is unlikely that Nikolaev could have imagined what kind of battles his death would cause.
In July 2004, he came to his native Cheboksary to judge the All-Russian Rural Sports Games, but right at the banquet he became ill. Cosmonaut No. 3 was taken to the hospital, but it was no longer possible to do anything.

2 weeks before this, the astronaut’s grandson was born. This was a child from the second marriage of Nikolaev’s daughter.


Grandsons Andrey and Alexey, Valentina Vladimirovna, daughter Elena and son-in-law Andrey Rodionov

There was a dispute between Nikolaev’s daughter and the President of Chuvashia over where the cosmonaut’s grave should be located.

President Fedorov claims (and directly refers to this in his order on organizing the funeral) that Andriyan Nikolaev asked to be buried in his homeland - in the village of Shorshely.
However, he did not leave a written will. And Elena Nikolaeva-Tereshkova categorically refutes this. According to her, literally two weeks before his death, Andriyan Grigorievich told his driver’s wife that he would like to lie in the cemetery in Leonikhe - near Star City - along with other cosmonauts.
But they still buried him in Chuvashia, and his daughter did not come to the funeral. Many cosmonauts also could not say goodbye to their colleague - they expected the funeral to take place in Moscow.
On the other hand, Shorshely is only 35 kilometers from Cheboksary. They are connected by a magnificent road. And he was not buried in a rural cemetery, as they sometimes write now - there is a magnificent memorial complex with a museum there.

The first time Elena got married against her mother’s will, and they didn’t even communicate for some time. But now they have made peace. Tereshkova helps her second son-in-law in her career.

Valentina Tereshkova looks good at 80 years old. And she still has dreams.
In 2013, at a press conference in Star City, which was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of her space flight on the Vostok-6 spacecraft, she stated: “Mars is my favorite planet. Of course, it’s a dream to visit Mars, find out if there was life there. If there was, then why was it gone? What catastrophe happened to this planet? Probably experts are working on this problem, we need a ship. Most likely, the first flights to Mars will be one way, I think so. But I’m ready to fly" (at that time there was talk that such an expedition could be organized). An amazing woman! Romance still lives in her soul.

It's a pity that this is hardly possible to implement. But in fact, seeing Mars and dying is better than being in a hospital.
But I think Tereshkov will celebrate more than one high-profile anniversary.

Her name was Chaika. This was her call sign in space. And on Earth, on the roof of her house there is a weather vane in the shape of this bird. Her mansion is located next to Star City. At one time, she was able to make a space flight alone. She is Valentina Tereshkova. Read the article for details of this fragile woman’s flight into space.

Difficult war childhood

The biography of Valentina Tereshkova began in the spring of 1937 in one of the villages of the Yaroslavl province. Her parents were from Belarus. The astronaut’s mother worked at a textile factory, and her father was a tractor driver. Unfortunately, her dad died during the Soviet-Finnish conflict. Accordingly, the entire household and raising three children fell on the mother’s shoulders. Moreover, the Great Patriotic War began soon.

Undoubtedly, little Valya’s childhood turned out to be very difficult. Devastation and despair reigned in the country.

When this terrible war ended, the future cosmonaut went to first grade. She studied quite well. In addition, she had a good ear for music. That is why she started learning to play the domra.

However, when she finished seventh grade, she had to go to evening school. She was forced to help her mother and earn money. Thus, young Valentina moved to Yaroslavl and got a job at a tire factory there.

When she graduated from high school, she entered the light industry technical school. Of course, within these walls I studied science in absentia, like most young people in those days.

Aeroclub in Yaroslavl

Having become a student, Valentina began attending the city flying club on weekends. This establishment practiced parachute jumping. And she really liked these classes.

In total, the future cosmonaut performed more than 160 jumps. By and large, this was a solid indicator, especially for the fairer sex. Valentina was even given a sports rank.

In fact, she could no longer imagine herself without parachuting. And thanks to this hobby, he joined the team of space explorers.

In the cosmonaut corps

After graduating from technical school, which happened in 1960, Valentina got a job at a factory called Krasny Perekop. In addition to the direct work process, she headed the Komsomol organization there.

In a word, her life and career seemed to develop according to the standard scenario for a Soviet person. However, chance intervened in this story. The fact is that in 1962, academician Sergei Korolev intended to send a woman into space. Of course, this idea was also approved by members of the Central Committee of the first Soviet state, including Secretary General Nikita Khrushchev.

To implement the bold plan, the project leaders began to look for a suitable candidate. Let us note right away that there were a lot of people who wanted to go into space. Space industry workers had to search for applicants from hundreds of possible candidates.

At the same time, strict requirements were imposed on all participants in the selection. Representatives of the fairer sex should weigh no more than 70 kg, height - 170 cm. In addition, these girls should have a decent number of parachute jumps to their credit.

There was another important circumstance. When making their selection, leaders took into account a number of aspects of ideological and political literacy. They also considered the candidates' ability for public activity. As a discharge student in parachuting and the head of the factory Komsomol organization, Tereshkova, in principle, was an ideal contender. She fit all the criteria. In a word, she was considered an ideologically reliable person.

As a result, five girls were chosen for a female-piloted space flight. Of course, Tereshkova was among them. All of them were officially called up for military service. They became privates and began to train hard. And the conditions during the classes were quite harsh. Let's say they had to spend ten whole days in an isolation cell.

They say that the project managers ultimately chose Tatyana Morozycheva. By the way, Valentina trained with her at a Yaroslavl club. And she made more parachute jumps than Tereshkova.

Be that as it may, members of the last medical commission found out that Tatyana was pregnant. Thus, it finally became clear that Valentina would go into space after all.

Flight

When she realized that she would soon find herself in space, she tried to hide her plans from her family. She said then that she was going to leave for the next skydiving competition.

So what year did Valentina Tereshkova fly? The event took place in the middle of summer 1963. Her call sign was Chaika. The launch of Vostok-6 went without any problems. Valentina Tereshkova's first flight into space lasted more than two days. During this time, the device made 48 orbits around the Earth.

The woman endured the space voyage quite poorly. Valentina Tereshkova's flight duration in space is 70 hours. But they turned out to be literally hell for her.

As it turned out, there was an inaccuracy in the Vostok-6 automatic program. The fact is that the ship was oriented somewhat differently than it should have been. And Tereshkova was not approaching the planet at all, but moving away from it. She felt nauseous and dizzy. At the same time, the spacesuit was not allowed to be removed. On the second day of the flight, my shin started to hurt.

Valentina Tereshkova was forced to sharply limit her movements in space. She sat practically motionless. However, she still managed to put new data into the computer. By the way, she did not tell anyone about this emergency except the flight directors. Actually, Korolev himself then asked her to remain silent.

The problems that the astronaut had had an explanation in terms of physiology. They say that when the medical commission examined her before the flight, the results were very bad. However, on Khrushchev’s instructions, she was allowed to go on the flight.

Be that as it may, despite her physical condition during the flight into space, Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was able to withstand all the tests. She managed not only to regularly keep a journal on board, but also to take photographs. Subsequently, these images were useful in further space travel. In a word, she held on and sent exclusively positive reports to Earth.

Landing

The spacecraft landed in Altai. True, when Valentina Tereshkova (1963) ejected after a flight into space, she hit her helmet very hard. She received a large bruise on her temple and cheek. As a result, when she was found, she was practically unconscious.

She was urgently brought to the capital and hospitalized. And a little later, doctors reported that the life and health of the first female cosmonaut was out of danger.

When she finally came to her senses, the newsreel staff managed to do some stage photography. As if after the flight into space, Valentina Tereshkova (date of event - June 16, 1963) was in the apparatus. Extras ran towards him. Then they opened the lid and saw a cheerful and smiling Tereshkova. These images then flew around the entire planet.

Subsequently, as a reward, Tereshkova was given a three-room apartment in her homeland, in Yaroslavl. She lived here for almost three years, after which she finally settled in the capital.

Woman symbol

The seagull actually returned from space as a female symbol. Representatives of the fairer sex began to imitate her. They did haircuts like Tereshkova. A wristwatch with the name “Seagull” appeared in stores.

Party leaders constantly invited her to Kremlin receptions. A number of public organizations included her in their meetings.

The government awarded her, in addition to the Hero star, prestigious awards. She became the only female general in the Soviet army. In addition, she became a hero in such republics as Mongolia and Bulgaria.

She also received the title of "The Greatest Woman of the Twentieth Century." A small planet, streets in cities, the Evpatoria embankment, a square in Tver, city schools, a museum and a planetarium were named in her honor. In addition, one of the lunar craters was named after her.

Public figure

After her flight into space, Valentina Tereshkova (the date of the event is already known to you) began working as an instructor and spacecraft tester.

Two years later she began studying at the Air Force Academy and five years later she received a honors diploma.

During her studies, she wrote almost fifty working papers on this specialization. But since 1966 she has been actively involved in social activities. She became a deputy of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union. She was also the second person in the International Federation of Women. It was then that they began to call her the Iron Lady.

To be honest, Tereshkova was very burdened by this party burden. She said that she did not receive any money for her public work. And I always dreamed of a new flight. She even tried to get into the new astronaut corps. However, after Gagarin’s death, the Soviet government decided to protect the “firsts”.

Valentina continued to be interested in space. She dreamed of going on a flight to Mars. At the same time, she understood that this flight would be one way...

In the 90s, she was the head of the Association for International Cooperation and the Council for Coordinating the Activities of Russian Science Centers.

And at the end of this decade she began working at the Cosmonaut Training Center. She received the post of senior researcher there.

Present time

Since 2008, Tereshkova has collaborated with the United Russia party. She was a State Duma deputy. She always helped her Yaroslavl school and some other children's institutions. Thanks to her, a university, a planetarium and a river station were opened in Yaroslavl.

In the spring of 2008, she turned out to be the torchbearer of the domestic stage of the games in Beijing.

Three years later she again became the people's representative.

In 2014, she carried the Russian flag at the Olympics in Sochi.

And in 2015, she headed a non-profit charitable foundation called “Memory of Generations.”

In 2016, she once again won the election race, becoming a deputy of the State Duma.

Orbital marriage

Five months after the epoch-making space flight, Valentina Tereshkova (1963) got married. Her chosen one was cosmonaut Andrian Nikolaev. This act was too unexpected for many. At a minimum, the residents of Yaroslavl knew that she allegedly had a fiancé. True, the journalists could not find him.

Be that as it may, 35-year-old cosmonaut Nikolaev was in fact courting young Valentina. She was then twenty-six. Many believed that this relationship would not last long. They were too different - strong and strong-willed. They say that the head of the Soviet state Nikita Khrushchev himself matched them. Such a stellar, cosmic, orbital pair did not exist then. But this marriage still lasted for nineteen years.

The couple also had their first child, daughter Lena. At one time, she perfectly graduated from both school and medical institute. She works as an orthopedic surgeon. She has two sons - Alexey and Andrey.

In the late 70s, the space couple began to appear together less often. There was no question of getting a divorce. For Nikolaev could easily have been fired from the cosmonaut corps for being “immoral.” Moreover, in fact, then two applicants for cosmonauts were expelled due to divorces. And Tereshkova, the head of the Committee, is somehow uncomfortable being in a state of divorce.

They say that Brezhnev saved the situation. He personally agreed to this divorce. By this time, Tereshkova was in love again.

Second marriage

She met her new boyfriend, Valentina Tereshkova, whose photo you can see in the article, back in 1978. By this time, she was again in the cosmonaut corps and hoped that she would go on her new space journey. And Yuliy Shaposhnikov served at the Medical Academy in those days. He checked the health of the astronauts. Employees called him a “hard worker” and “humble.” And Valentina herself always spoke warmly about him.

Then it was clear that they were in love. They say that because of the new novel, Shaposhnikov abandoned his family.

They lived together for almost two decades. During this time, Tereshkova’s husband was able to head the Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics. He also became a major general. But in 1999 he died due to cancer.

Recent history

At the moment, Tereshkova has practically no close people left. There was a time when she loved her own younger brother very much. His name was Vladimir. He worked as a cameraman in Star City. A few years ago he passed away.

Valentina’s mother has also been gone for a long time. Until the last moment she searched for her father. As mentioned earlier, he died during the Soviet-Finnish war. It was known that he died a heroic death on the territory of the Karelian Isthmus. But his grave, of course, did not exist then. And only in the late 80s, the head of the defense department D. Yazov helped her find his burial. He was able to allocate funds to fly over the area. As a result, a mass grave was found in the forest. Tereshkova was even able to erect a monument there. Since then, she regularly visits this place.

Despite her age, she can still boast of her good health. Although in 2004 she had heart surgery. Otherwise she would have suffered a heart attack.

Until the end, Chaika continues to do a lot for his native region. And in 1996, the head of the school where she studied fell ill. At this moment, the teacher needed urgent surgery. Thanks to Valentina, she was operated on in the capital. And it's free.

The female symbol has great connections. True, quite little is known about this side of her life. In the 80s, she “closed herself” from the media because of the stupidest articles about her. Her silence was broken only a few years ago.

Personal life of daughter Tereshkova

"Santa Barbara" rests next to such passions!

Dear Sirs! The other day I watched the film on ORT “The Personal Life of Valentina Tereshkova.” The film is interesting. I was sincerely interested in the footage where a certain man, not identified by his first and last name, twirls Tereshkova’s grandson Alyosha by the arms. The footage was accompanied by the voice of Kirill Lavrov: “Tereshkova’s daughter has been happily married for a long time.” The question arises: how long ago is this? And why didn't you introduce your husband? Here’s why: in this very man, apparently meant as a husband, I recognized Andrei Rodionov, a man with whom I have known for more than a quarter of a century (since I was ten) and who was my sister’s husband for 20 years. Before his divorce from his sister, this is how he liked to have fun with his nephew, my son.

Unfortunately, my sister - Elena Rodionova - unwittingly crossed paths with Elena Mayorova (daughter of V. Tereshkova) in such a “Santa Barbara”, what’s wrong with the mentioned series! If I hadn’t witnessed what happened, I would never have believed it! Life, it turns out, presents stories that no screenwriter would ever dream of!

Therefore, I am breaking the story into series, keeping in mind a possible continuation of the film “The Personal Life of Valentina Tereshkova”, at least under the working title “The Personal Life of Tereshkova’s Daughter.”

Natalia Egorova

Episode 1 Happy Soviet childhood

A simple Soviet family lives (cosmonauts Tereshkova and Nikolaev), having given birth to a daughter, Elena, who eats poorly (still), but listens a lot and absorbs her mother’s model of behavior. After some time, the parents get divorced, and the mother tries to prevent the father from seeing his daughter - a common situation. Elena's parents have long been friends with the family of Professor Shaposhnikov, from where after some time V. Tereshkova takes the professor away (Tereshkova's daughter tells her ex-husband) and lives happily ever after with him. My daughter grows up and enters medical school. A certain Greek (but kind!) millionaire tried to rid medicine of future doctors by offering Elena as much as a million dollars for a transfer to MGIMO. But for some reason the deal fell through, Elena graduated from the institute. Mom got her daughter a job at CITO under the supervision of Shaposhnikov (where after a while Elena was forbidden to stay on night shifts and generally began to be brought to work in a company car and taken from work in the same car - just in case).

We show at the time Elena graduated from medical institute the life of another simple Soviet family - its head is the former chief of the 235th government aviation squadron, the former personal pilot of Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and Gorbachev, Major General of Aviation Alexey Grigorievich Mayorov, who at that moment was the representative of Aeroflot in Stockholm. They say that without A.G. Mayorov at the helm, Raisa Maksimovna Gorbacheva refused to fly at all. Alexey Grigorievich and his wife Lidia Ivanovna Mayorov have an adult son, Igor, who graduated from an aviation institute and flight school and works as a pilot at Sheremetyevo. It should be noted that there was a certain social difference between the Tereshkova and Mayorov families. Well, Tereshkova’s biography is known - her merits are great, she is a universal idol, several generations were raised by her example. Elena, born into the family of the first female astronaut, was personally sent diapers by Queen Elizabeth II. Igor was born into the family of an IL-14 co-pilot; the Mayorov family received their first apartment when Igor entered 2nd grade. Alexey Grigorievich Mayorov spent many years achieving his position in aviation, so Igor did not acquire the habits of the “golden youth”.

One day Elena Tereshkova accidentally saw Igor Mayorov. This is where it started! It’s hard to say what motivated her - it happened in 1990, by that time the young lady was exactly 26 years old, it’s quite possible that she couldn’t bear to get married, and she might have liked Igor: a handsome pilot with a future, from a good family.

In any case, Elena launched an unprecedented attack on Igor. She began to look for mutual acquaintances - and, naturally, they were found. Igor knew that they were trying to get to know him, but he dodged as best he could, realizing that the family’s starting conditions were different. Once, when Igor, barely alive from fatigue, returned from a flight in the evening, a nice company of acquaintances was already waiting for him in the kitchen of his parents’ apartment, and at the entrance stood Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova’s black service Volga, bristling with antennas, in which sat a stranger who introduced herself as Elena, her daughter Valentina Tereshkova. Taking advantage of Igor’s stupor and fatigue, they shoved him into a Volga and took him to Star City for an excursion to the local museum, which was even opened at night for the occasion.

The siege of the younger Mayorov was carried out according to all the rules of fortification art. The next assault was followed by a lull, then a new onslaught followed. The situation was aggravated by the fact that Igor was 31 years old at that time, and being single at that age for a pilot of international flights is not good, as the detachment’s leadership increasingly reminded him of. And parents dreamed of grandchildren.

Igor, attacked from all sides, tried to warn the young lady that the attributes of “high life” (receptions at embassies, Mercedes, villas, etc.)

) are of little interest to him. The last straw was Elena’s complaints about the tyranny of her mother, who even allows herself to let go of her hands (“her mother hit her in the face so hard that the earrings flew out of her ears”). And in general, if Igor does not marry her, all she can do is hang herself.

In October 1992, Elena, taking only the necessary personal belongings, runs away from her mother to Igor, they hide in the dachas of friends - they wait for V. Tereshkova to cool down. The latter, in an attempt to return her daughter, calls A.G. Mayorov in Stockholm and rashly threatens to put Igor in prison, since he allegedly introduced her daughter to drugs and robbed her apartment.

Having decided that the young lady at the age of 28 is probably ripe for family life, tired of the attacks from her superiors and, in addition, feeling sorry for “Cinderella with her living mother,” Igor still marries Elena Tereshkova (now Mayorova). A modest wedding took place on November 28, 1992 in the apartment of Igor’s parents, only 12 people were present, including the newlyweds. Elena’s mother, V. Tereshkova, was not at the wedding.

Somehow, Elena, almost by mail, resigns from CITO (it is clear that her way there is now closed), sits without work for a year, until Alexey Grigorievich gets her a job at the Aeroflot medical center on Sokol as a flight squad doctor - a high salary plus 4 guaranteed business trips abroad per year (possibly with your husband).

Elena was lucky: Alexey Grigorievich, who had dreamed of a daughter all his life, gladly received her, at least in the form of a daughter-in-law. A young married couple has “the whole world in their pocket”: fur coats, cars, Australia, France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Malta, Cyprus, Indonesia, UAE, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and a three-room apartment in the south-west of Moscow (carefully left young, like everything else, by Alexei Grigorievich Mayorov). At the same time, Igor also earns good money.

The young couple had already seen enough of the world, and in 1995 their son Alyosha was born, named after his pilot grandfather. Grandfather is happy. Now it’s not the Queen of England who sends diapers for Alyosha, but still the Swedish princess. Everything else (which the princess did not guess) necessary for her grandson is brought from Stockholm, where the grandfather was then working.

The relationship between Elena Mayorova (and her son-in-law too, this is understandable) with V. Tereshkova completely ceased - both parties did not want to know about each other for 7 years, and she did not see her now “adored” grandson Tereshkova until the latter was 4 years old.

The whole world in your pocket: Australia...

True, Alexey Grigorievich insisted that Elena make peace with her mother, but she declared every time (especially after the birth of her son): “My mother will never see her grandson as well as her own ears.” However, this does not matter, because there is another loving grandmother - Lidia Ivanovna.

Tereshkova’s daughter, the recently modest Elena, who came to the Mayorov family, resumes her craving for jewelry, expensive fur coats and cars. Slowly, meanwhile, the newlyweds’ relationship is going wrong, Elena’s mother’s commanding nature awakens (in addition to greed), and Igor increasingly prefers to spend his free time in the garage, for which he is severely criticized by his wife.

End of the first episode.

Episode 2. Hungry Soviet childhood and stone toys

Moscow, 60s, Sretenka, apartment not in need of renovation. Andrei Rodionov and his mother grow up in it and dream about the future. Andrey's dad left his family for another woman when his son was 5 years old. Then he returned several times, so Andrei did not particularly notice his absence. When the boy was 15 years old, his parents remarried, giving birth to another son. Then the pattern repeated itself - when Rodion, Andrei’s younger brother, was 5 years old, his parents separated again. Andrei's father married a young lady who bore him two children, but fate was not kind to the young lady - Andrei's father died in a car accident. The fate of Andrei’s mother also did not work out. At the age of about 38, she got together with a former family friend and gave birth to a daughter, Anya, who is a year younger than my niece. They live very poorly.

Andrei knows that in this life he can only count on himself, so he enters the Aktobe Flight School, graduates from it and receives an assignment to Lipetsk. But since school he has been friends with my sister Elena, whom he marries. Here, naturally, our dad, who at that time served in the Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense in a considerable rank, makes a couple of calls, and his son-in-law immediately turns out to be a pilot of a geodetic aviation squad based in Myachkovo, near Moscow. Then he becomes a civil aviation pilot at Domodedovo. The young couple gives birth to a daughter, Ira. Everyone is happy.

November 28, 1992 Registry office on the corner of Leninsky Prospect and st. Lobachevsky. Wedding of Igor Mayorov and Elena, daughter of Tereshkova

But difficult times are coming, Andrey is simultaneously trying to do business to feed his family. However, the business ends, and all that remains for Andrei is a used BMW and a garage. True, Andrei’s mother, who at one time worked in the housing office on Sretenka, helps with the apartment, having carried out some kind of operation, so the newlyweds are doing well with housing - a three-room apartment on Sokol. They lived like that for twenty years. It happened differently. In recent years, pilots have been paid little, so my sister received a significant portion of the earnings. Andrey, we must give him his due, tried: he became the commander of the ship at Domodedovo, and then (albeit with a demotion) made his way to co-pilot at Sheremetyevo. As usual, my whole family helped him with this, and this time it’s hard to say whether he got there himself or whether requests helped him, or maybe both.

And Igor Mayorov and Andrei Rodionov did not know not only that their destinies would intersect, but they simply did not know each other - there were still many pilots at Sheremetyevo.

End of the second series.

Ending in the next issue.

The first female astronaut has something to hide. This is why we will never see a tell-all book published Valentina Vladimirovna About Me. It's a pity. If she had written at least half of the whole truth, her memoirs could have become a worldwide bestseller.

It’s not just about the sensational marriage with Nikolaev and not only about their divorce. When a famous person spends most of his life hiding from journalists, you inevitably wonder: why? After all, Tereshkova also had a happy, in her words, marriage that lasted 20 years; her daughter became a doctor, gave birth to two grandchildren... In the end, the first female astronaut will forever remain the first, and this is also a kind of happiness. However, a moratorium on questions about Valentina Vladimirovna was established by her daughter Elena and former (deceased) husband: Cosmonaut No. 3 Andriyan Nikolaev.

They once talked with pleasure about the famous countrywoman, perhaps only in her native Yaroslavl region. Now there are almost no witnesses left to Tereshkova’s non-star life. All the more valuable are the memories of her friends and relatives.

Born on the stove

Finding the village of Maslennikovo, where Valentina Tereshkova was born, turned out to be difficult. We went to see her grandmother’s house and got stuck. Yes, and the hut, where is Vladimir Aksenovich And Elena Fedorovna Tereshkova a second daughter, Valya, was born, but did not survive. Even the Cosmos Museum in the village of Nikulskoye was closed: apparently, the building was erected hastily, and it quickly fell into disrepair. Then it was most likely restored. But from March 1 to June 15 this year, the museum is again under lock and key: re-exposition. Perhaps, on the day of the 55th anniversary of the flight, a heroine is expected here.

“Valentina’s father died in the Finnish war when she was 2 years old, but she remembers well how he put her on a horse,” said the former director of the museum Galina Agrafonova.— Vladimir Aksenovich was very handsome, and Valya was called daddy’s daughter. She and paternal grandmother Matryona Titovna She loved her very much and often came to see her from Yaroslavl.

Valentina Tereshkova (center) among her friends. 1956 Photo: RIA Novosti

They said that Valya was stubborn as a girl. I wasn’t afraid to go into the forest alone, I knew all the mushroom and berry places. Once, already in Moscow, Valentina Vladimirovna admitted that Maslennikovo is called that because there is a lot of butter around. She was perky and brave. At the age of 7, she asked to be put on a horse and fed the animal from her palm. She jumped into the pond not only like a soldier, but also upside down, which aroused the envy of the boys. Later in Yaroslavl I did the same from the Perekopsky Bridge. And there are 15 meters to the water...

“In the summer we all gathered at our grandmother’s in Maslennikov,” recalled Tereshkova’s cousin Tamara Kabanova, lived at Chebokovo station. - Valya usually came from Yaroslavl with her older sister Lyusya, their brother Volodya rarely visited. What were they playing? Now I don’t even remember. There was nothing then, not even dolls. And when they grew up, they helped their grandmother: clean up the cattle, in the garden. When Valya was in school, she had a camera, she loved to take pictures... Many years later, she and I went to her grandmother’s cemetery. There was only little time for conversation: a bunch of bosses always came with her. In general, her cousins ​​often turned to her.

The Tereshkovs had three children. The youngest, Volodya, was born when his father was no longer alive. Vladimir Aksenovich, a tank driver, was called up for service in 1939, and died the same year. Elena Fedorovna was left alone and never married again.

The story of how Tereshkova’s parents met is amazing. Volodya came to the Prokladovo farm to get married. But the girl didn’t like that he was from the peasants, his clothes were poor, and she refused him. And the girlfriend standing next to me Lena Kruglova admitted: “Well, in vain, I would gladly marry him.” The groom was not at a loss and immediately proposed to his girlfriend.

After the wedding, his mother Matryona Titovna invited the young couple to separate. We bought an old house: Valentina was born there. On the stove. Having received the baby, the midwife wrapped the future cosmonaut in a sheepskin coat.

“There were no kindergartens then,” said Galina Agrafonova. — Valya’s mother worked on a collective farm: as a milkmaid on a farm. Accurate, principled. I didn't like gossip. The children helped with the housework. It even seems to me that Valya went to school not at the age of 7, but at 8: she babysat for a year with Volodya.

Athletes-paratroopers Valentina Tereshkova and V. Girs at the Yaroslavl airfield, 1959 pic.twitter.com/eqEJ95jJF7

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Mother did not allow me to study after school

Elena Fedorovna had a hard time. After the war, she and her children went to Yaroslavl to visit their mother. They lived poorly. In a yellowed photograph in the school museum, Tereshkova is without a white apron. For many years she wore a faded old twill dress. The class teacher then wrote in the description: “The family is financially poorly secure, they live in a small room in a private house, the only furniture is a bed, a table, a few chairs.”

“The guys carried potatoes, bread, and milk in bottles in handkerchiefs,” the former director of school No. 32, where Tereshkova studied, picked up the conversation. Maya Nyushina. - More prosperous parents gave eggs. The delicacy was duran, or cake. Sunflower, hemp. If it's linen, then it's a blessing! The ink was poured into a bottle, the pen was treasured like the apple of one's eye. Nevertheless, Valya studied well. I got straight A's in physics, I knew math pretty well, and I really loved history. At first there were problems with the Russian, but then everything worked out.

“Modest, but demanding,” noted the class teacher Tamara Klimova and invited the guys to choose Valya as headman. Tereshkova played the dombra in the school orchestra, loved to sing and enjoyed skiing. And soon parachuting became a part of her life. Valya Shashkova from a parallel class she invited me to join the section, then she quit, and Tereshkova got carried away.

However, Valentina did not think about becoming a professional athlete. Since childhood I dreamed of being... a train driver. She voraciously read books about Polzunov and after 7th grade wanted to enter the railway technical school. Mom didn't allow it. The family continued to live hard: Valya had to go to work.

Pilot-cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (4th from right) among the skydivers. 1961 Photo: RIA Novosti

“Valentina was a bracelet holder in the women’s team of the 5th assembly shop,” recalled the site foreman at the Yaroslavl tire plant Larisa Sidyakina.— I made wheel frames for Belarus tractors. The work is very hard, but they paid more than at other enterprises, and they got a job here through great connections.

It was necessary to get up before dawn. The trams were running poorly, there were a lot of people... Less than a year later, Valya’s sister and mother persuaded Valya to move to the Krasny Perekop industrial textile factory, where they worked themselves. Closer to home. In addition, it was time to think about the future: after graduating from evening school, Tereshkova entered a textile technical school.

Ribbon worker, roving worker, greaser... Before becoming the secretary of the Komsomol organization, Valentina experienced all the hardships of working at the plant.

“Under her, Komsomol life was simply in full swing,” the chief power engineer at Krasny Perekop shared his memories. Vyacheslav Romanov.“The entire committee was overwhelmed with parachutes: she headed the section... They didn’t live well: from paycheck to paycheck. But we came to them for tea as if it were our own home. Valya was a good cook. We didn’t consider ourselves poor then. We tried to dress fashionably and didn’t go hungry. Before 1967, absolutely everything was available in stores and cheap. Valya received 120-130 rubles as a secretary, and a good lunch in the canteen cost a maximum of three rubles. Bread is free. At that time, little alcohol was consumed. They drank tea, dry wine, and very rarely vodka. Her brother Volodya drank a little more...

Pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union Valentina Tereshkova with her mother Elena Fedorovna Tereshkova (second from right). 1963 Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexander Mokletsov

According to the chief power engineer, Tereshkova wanted to throw in her lot with the plant, and even entered the correspondence textile institute... But very soon her life changed dramatically. She still jumped with a parachute and was injured. She was silent about the fact that she got into the cosmonaut corps. And shortly before the flight, she arrived home and opened up with someone: “Perhaps you will hear about me soon.”

“They called my mother to the village council and asked where Vladimir Aksenovich served and how he died,” said my cousin.

A little over a month later, on June 16, 1963, the whole world learned about the flight of the first female cosmonaut. And Yaroslavl that day simply stood on ears.

“Hearing the message, I immediately ran after Elena Fedorovna: “Go quickly, Valya has flown!” They didn’t have a TV,” recalled the Tereshkovs’ neighbor Nadezhda Isaeva. - And she cried: “Lord, I wouldn’t have crashed...”

Did Khrushchev marry the cosmonauts?

Whether she wanted it or not, after the flight Valentina became a completely different person. Circumstances required it. Soon after the flight I arrived in Yaroslavl in my car. A rally was organized at the plant. And all the people waited at the gate for the famous woman to go back. And Tereshkova was escorted to the workshop and taken out the back door to the pier to the boat...

Then there was a meeting with fellow countrymen at the stadium. And again, people were waiting for the 26-year-old heroine, getting ready, dressing up. But they came and saw nothing.

“Later we met with her,” Romanov shared. “But she could no longer be herself.” Maintained a different image. All the time with her retinue, who did not let her go for a minute. Secretaries of regional committees and city committees wanted to be nearby. She seemed to ask, as before, “How are you?” But... in a different tone. The speech was dominated by high phrases. And we only learned about her life from newspapers.

She, a simple Yaroslavl weaver, became the first. And other women from the cosmonaut corps, naturally, did not like this. Galina Agrafonova, who met some of them, recalled that Irina Solovyova, And Valentina Ponomareva were, to put it mildly, unhappy...

“Tatyana Morozycheva should have taken Valentina’s place,” Maya Nyushina confessed. - World champion, medals - up to the floor. They were best friends, they trained together, but Tatyana had much more jumps: 3.5 thousand...

However, Morozycheva just got married, became pregnant, and was expelled from the detachment. There were rumors that she then became an alcoholic and sold all her medals.

The press wrote a lot about Tereshkova and her understudies. Everything secret someday becomes clear. However, no one, except close people, knows for certain the history of Valentina Vladimirovna’s first marriage and divorce.

How much has it been said that he married two cosmonauts? Khrushchev, however, no matter who we talked to, everyone convinced us that Tereshkova could not have gotten married by force. The third woman astronaut Elena Kondakova summarized: “The members of the first detachment were such privileged people that Nikita Sergeevich himself listened to them. And if Valentina Vladimirovna had said “no,” no CPSU Central Committee could have forced her.”

Yaroslavl residents who knew Tereshkova before the flight recalled: she seemed to have some kind of fiancé before Nikolaev... But who is he, where is he?.. One newspaper mentioned the name Robert Silina, with whom Valentina studied at the flying club and whom she was supposed to marry. However, no one at home admitted that they knew this man.

“Close relationships were rare then,” Romanov said. - Although, of course, Tereshkova was looked after. He was friends with Valentin Aristov. They went to the cinema, to the theater, walked in the evenings, probably kissed. And they didn’t hide their relationship.

“Nikolaev also had a fiancée in Chuvashia, and his mother wanted him to marry her,” Nyushina revealed the secret. - So what now? He also had a girlfriend in Smolensk, where he served. They even told me there that Tereshkova stole her fiancé.

In a word, with regard to Tereshkova’s personal life in the last half century, there are more questions than answers.

Marriage of pilot-cosmonauts Valentina Tereshkova and Andriyan Nikolaev. 1963 Photo: RIA Novosti / Valery Shustov

“In the eighties they wrote that Valentina was lying on a dusty sofa and sipping Armenian cognac,” Agrafonova recalled. “Her assistant complained: that’s why we are afraid to say something again.” When she came here, we were instructed: for God’s sake, don’t ask about her personal life.

They also gossiped about the daughter of Tereshkova and Nikolaev. They said that the girl was born premature and deaf. Fortunately, everything was fine, except that Lena suffered from strabismus as a child. They put glasses on her, covering her good eye, so that the other one would be corrected, and the problem would be solved. She graduated from high school and medical school with honors.

By the way, Andrian Nikolaev, who refused to talk about his ex-wife, admitted that he had no doubts about his daughter’s health. He was so confident in himself. Even at over 70, he was still a vigorous, strong man. But... It seemed that she and Tereshkova had entered into a parity agreement on non-disclosure of the facts of their family life. And, if this is so, you should respect a man who has not stooped to “bed memories.” Although, without a doubt, he would make decent money from his memoirs.

“I talked a lot with Nikolaev,” said Agrafonova. - This is a very interesting, rich person inside. It was easy with him. Although Valentina Vladimirovna complained that Andriyan’s relatives were tormented: “Why are all our people staying at the hotel, and some of him are leaving, others are coming. He is sitting in the corridor, writing something on his knee. And my relatives are sleeping in the office.” In Zvezdny they had a four-room apartment, but it was small. The living room has bookcases on both sides, a table and a shelf with gifts, a study for two, and two small bedrooms. The daughter slept with her grandmother.

Valentina Nikolaeva-Tereshkova's mother Elena Fedorovna with her granddaughter Elena. 1964 Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexander Mokletsov

If people disagree, then there is a reason for it. This is what women who knew Tereshkova said. A few years later, during the operation, Valentina Vladimirovna met the head of CITO Yuli Shaposhnikov. They said that he abandoned his previous family because of her. Despite the fact that he was “modest and a hard worker,” as they said about him. And Valentina Vladimirovna always spoke warmly about her second husband (now also deceased).

“Lobsters? No problem!"

Unfortunately, the first female cosmonaut had almost no truly close people left. The beloved younger brother Volodya, who worked as a cameraman in Zvezdny, died a long time ago. Mom left even earlier. For a very long time, Valentina Vladimirovna searched for the grave of her father, who died on the Karelian Isthmus. Thanks to one of the marshals of the Ministry of Defense, who allocated funds to fly over the area, I found a huge mass grave overgrown with forest. She erected a monument and visits there regularly.

Now Tereshkova has a much smaller retinue. But she is as hardworking as ever. School teachers who visited her once said: she got up at 6 in the morning, cooked millet porridge, fed everyone... She did a lot for Yaroslavl, helps people. One day, school principal Maya Nyushina became seriously ill and needed surgery. Thanks to Valentina Vladimirovna, it was done in Moscow for free.

Valentina Tereshkova with her brother Vladimir. 1971 Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexander Mokletsov

Cosmonaut Kondakova told how on the second day after the crew landed (Elena flew with Polyakov And Viktorenko) Tereshkova came: “Guys, what would you like?”

“We were in rehabilitation, and my husband had already bought everything that was possible.” But Tereshkova couldn’t leave it like that: “You’ve been in space for a long time, you need fresh fruits and vegetables.” And then Valera half-jokingly said: “Valentina Vladimirovna, we would like some lobsters...” She: “Valera, no problem!” And what do you think? A couple of days later she brought fresh raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, lobsters, and baked fresh bread herself. Anyone else would have ignored it, but she showed such concern...

The governments of the USSR and Russia never ignored the first female cosmonaut. Tereshkova has enormous connections, thanks to which, they say, she became a general at the last moment before retiring. For many years - in government and public work, State Duma deputy of the 6th and 7th convocations. But... To be honest, not much is known about this side of her life...

Yaroslavl - st. Chebokovo—With. Nikulskoye - Moscow.

How Valentina Tereshkova’s daughter lives - her biography, personal life and interesting information with photos in our article. This year, the first female cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, turned 80 years old. As part of this significant date, we dedicated a number of articles not only to Valentina herself, but also to her only daughter.

Today we will talk about how her personal life developed, and also reveal several secrets of her birth.

Elena Tereshkova: photo

Marriage of Tereshkova and Nikolaev

Marriages are made in heaven. Or in space. In the case of Nikolaev and Tereshkova, everything was practically the same. The couple were astronauts.

Many people believe that their marriage is not real. It's all because of politics. The astronauts were supposed to be an example for their compatriots.
Valentina Tereshkova and Andrian Nikolaev at the wedding celebration

Accordingly, they should have complete order in their personal lives. However, the spouses themselves do not think so. They really got married on their own initiative. As well as on their own initiative, they divorced.

The wedding of Tereshkova and Nikolaev took place in 1963. A year later their daughter was born.

Elena Tereshkova in childhood with her parents

Valentina got married for the second time. Her marriage to her second husband lasted 20 years. In 1999, her second husband Yuli Shaposhnikov died.

If not for the circumstances, Tereshkova would still be married. Unlike Andarian, she loved Julia more strongly.

The secret of the birth of daughter Tereshkova

The birth of a daughter to the “heavenly family” of Tereshkova and Nikolaev was accompanied by a wide variety of fictions. Naturally, parental glory is to blame for everything.

The most incredible rumors circulated. As if the girl was born blind or deaf. Some said that she had 6 fingers. According to others, Tereshkova’s daughter had 3 arms. Naturally, the cosmic pressures of the parents were to blame for everything.
Elena as a child with her mother Valentina Tereshkova

Of course, the girl was born completely normal - without the pathologies described above. Although pregnancy was really difficult for Tereshkova. Throughout her childhood, Elena (as the star family named their daughter) was under the supervision of medical personnel.

It is possible that health problems during pregnancy were really related to the flight, since Tereshkova did not endure it so easily - the woman was constantly vomiting. In addition, she experienced general weakness.

Elena Andrianova Tereshkova

Elena's childhood and youth

Before revealing the secrets of the personal life of Valentina Tereshkova’s daughter, let’s delve into her biography. Friends and relatives of Tereshkova believe that she returned from space a different person - she was struck by star fever. If it weren't for Valentina's mother, little Lena would have been left to her own devices.

Tereshkova’s daughter graduated from school with excellent marks. After that, she entered medical school. After graduating, the girl devoted herself to work at CITO.

Elena Tereshkova now
After her parents’ divorce, Valentina Tereshkova’s daughter changed her last name. Initially she was Nikolaeva. Afterwards, she took her mother’s surname.

Elena's first husband was pilot Igor Mayorov. The lovers had a son, Alexei. However, the marriage with Mayorov did not last long. Soon she married pilot Andrei Rodionov. They had a son. He was named the same as his father - Andrei.

What did the ex-husband of Tereshkova’s daughter say?

The biography and personal life of Valentina Tereshkova’s daughter was often discussed in the press. Her ex-husband gave several interviews about life with Elena. He says the mother-daughter relationship was very difficult. Tereshkova did not pay attention to Elena.

Elena Tereshkova with her mother Valentina Tereshkova, husband and sons

Igor says that Elena changed her last name only because her mother needed it. Although Tereshkova Jr. herself was afraid that her father would be very offended by her for this. And so it was. Of course, now the resentment has passed.

Elena's father Andriyan told Igor that Tereshkova forbade him to communicate with his daughter. It was only when Elena got married that they were finally able to reunite family ties.

The daughter of Valentina Tereshkova (biography, personal life and photos, see above) has gone through multifaceted paths...