page_title: List of Russian people
section_title: Cosmonauts
hierarchical_section_title: List of Russian people / Explorers / Cosmonauts
caption_attribution_description: English: Valentina Tereshkova (b. 1937) is a Russian cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union. Русский: Валентина Терешкова (р. 1937) — первая женщина в космосе, Герой Советского Союза.
context_page_description: This is a list of people associated with the modern Russian Federation, the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, Russian Tsardom, the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Kievan Rus', and other predecessor states of Russia.
  Regardless of ethnicity or emigration, the list includes famous natives of Russia and its predecessor states, as well as people who were born elsewhere but spent most of their active life in Russia.
context_section_description: Pavel Belyayev, member of the first two-person space crew
  Georgy Beregovoy, oldest human to go into space (by date of birth, 1921)
  Valery Bykovsky, performer of the longest solo spaceflight
  Konstantin Feoktistov, member of the first three-person space crew
  Yuri Gagarin, first ever human to travel into space
  Yevgeny Khrunov, participant of the first dual spacewalk and crew transfer between spacecraft
  Vladimir Komarov, member of the first three-person space crew, the first human to die during a space mission (landing accident)
  Sergei Krikalyov, accumulated most time in space (803 days) during six flights
  Alexei Leonov, first to perform a spacewalk, a member of the first two-person space crew, space painter
  Musa Manarov, first to spend over a year in orbit
  Andrian Nikolayev, participant of the first parallel flight, the first to perform spacecraft-to-spacecraft communications, the first to spend two weeks in space
  Valeri Polyakov, performer of the longest continuous spaceflight (437 days)
  Pavel Popovich, participant of the first parallel flight, the first to perform spacecraft-to-spacecraft communications
  Svetlana Savitskaya, second woman to fly into space, the first to perform a spacewalk
  Vitaly Sevastyanov, first to spend two weeks in space
  Anatoly Solovyev, person who made most spacewalks and accumulated most time spacewalking (over 82 hours)
  Valentina Tereshkova, first woman and civilian in space
  Gherman Titov, second human to orbit the Earth, the first who spent a whole day and slept in space, the youngest cosmonaut/astronaut so far
  Vladimir Titov, first to spend over a year in orbit
  Boris Yegorov, member of the first three-person space crew, the first physician in space
  Aleksei Yeliseyev, participant of the first dual spacewalk and crew transfer between spacecraft
caption: Valentina Tereshkova
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