Fairy-tale cosmonaut wedding
11/03/1963 AD married
Valentina and Andriyan marry at the Moscow Wedding Palace with Khrushchev presiding at the wedding party together with top government and space program leaders.
The marriage was encouraged by the Soviet space authorities as a "fairy-tale message to the country". General Kamanin, head of the space program, described it as "probably useful for politics and science".
On 8 June 1964, nearly one year after her space flight, she gave birth to their daughter Elena Andrianovna Nikolaeva-Tereshkova, the first person with both a mother and father who had travelled into space.
Later in their marriage, the couple grew apart and refused to even stand next to each other in photographs. Tereshkova told the biographer Lady Lothian that the marriage ended in 1977; but didn't divorce until 1982.
Lattitude: 55.7558° N
Longitude: 37.6172° E
Region: Russia and Eastern Bloc
Modern Day Russia
Subjects Who or What married?
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Andriyan Nikolayev Third Soviet cosmonaut t...
Objects To Whom or What was married?
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Valentina Tereshkova Soviet cosmonaut, engin...
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