left to right: unidentified man, Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), and Valentina Vladimirovna Nikolayeva-Tereshkova (b. 1937)
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Form/Genre: Black-and-white photographs
Date: 1963
Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2009-4089
left to right: unidentified man (possibly cosmonaut Adrian Nikolayev?), Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev (1894-1971), and cosmonaut Valentina Vladimirovna Nikolayeva-Tereshkova (b. 1937), walking through Pushkin Square, Moscow, December 1963. She was the first woman to go into space (June 1963) and orbited the earth 48 times. In Fall 1963, she married cosmonaut Adrian Nikolayev.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2009-4089
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Capital Gallery, Suite 3000, MRC 507; 600 Maryland Avenue, SW; Washington, DC 20024-2520
1963
Black-and-white photographs
SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA2009-4089]