Vase with the portrait of Valentina Tereshkova
1960
Russia, 1960s
Milk and uncolored glass, photo ceramics, gilding
Height 20 cm
Tereshkova, Valentina Vladimirovna (b. 1937), the world’s first woman to fly into outer space (the flight took place on June 16–19, 1963. Valentina Tereshkova piloted the Vostok-6 spacecraft and flew 48 times around the Earth.), Pilot-Cosmonaut of the USSR and Hero of the Soviet Union (June 22, 1963), Soviet Women’s Committee President, Col.-Engineer (1970), recipient of several highest national awards.