To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

Before being recruited as a cosmonaut Tereshkova was a textile factory assembly worker and an amateur parachutist. At the time of her selection Tereshkova was exactly ten years younger than the youngest Mercury Seven astronaut Gordon Cooper. Euphrosyne Grand Duchess of Moscow 2nd class (2008)
Honorary Citizenships
Kaluga Yaroslavl (Russia) Karaganda Baikonur (Leninsk Kazakhstan 1977) Gyumri (Leninakan Armenia 1965) Vitebsk (Belarus 1975) Montreux (Switzerland) Drancy (France) Montgomery (UK) Polizzi Generosa ( Italy) Darkhan (Mongolia 1965) Sofia Burgas Petrich Stara Zagora Pleven Varna (Bulgaria 1963) Bratislava (Slovakia 1963)
Recognition
Various locations and monuments have been named after Valentina Tereshkova:
A lunar crater
A minor planet 1671 Chaika
Yalta embankment
Many streets in Vitebsk Volokolamsk Grodno Irkutsk Ishimbay Kemerovo Klin Korolyov Lipetsk Mytishchi Ardatov Novosibirsk (Akademgorodok) Novocheboksarsk Odessa Orenburg Yaroslavl Krasnoyarsk Penza Gudermes (Chechen Republic)
A district in Tver
School number 32 in Yaroslavl where Valentina Tereshkova studied
Museum of Tereshkova "Cosmos" near her native village
Monument in Bayevsky District of Altai Territory close to the landing place of the first female astronaut
"Greatest woman of 20th century"
Cosmonaut monument in Moscow
Monument planned at Tereshkova's birthplace in Yaroslavl
Yaroslavl Planetarium (7 April 2011)


See also
List of female astronauts.

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russian: Валенти́на Влади́мировна Терешко́ва; born 6 March 1937) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut and the first woman to have flown in space having been selected from more than four hundred applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. After the dissolution of the first group of female cosmonauts in 1969 Valentina Tereshkova became a prominent member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union holding various political offices.