Valentina Tereshkova - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the Russian Wikipedia.

Russian

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland;
  • 2nd class (6 March 2007) - for outstanding contribution to the development of domestic space
  • 3rd class (6 March 1997) - for services to the state and the great personal contribution to the development of domestic space
• Order of Honour (10 June 2003) - for outstanding contribution to the development and strengthening of international scientific, cultural and social ties
• Order of Friendship (April 12, 2011) - for outstanding contribution to the development of national manned space flight and long-term fruitful public activity
• Russian Federation State Prize for outstanding achievements in the field of humanitarian action in 2008 (4 June 2009)
• Certificates of appreciation from the Government of the Russian Federation;
  • 16 June 2008, - for long-term fruitful state and public activities, considerable personal contribution to the development of manned space flight and in connection with the 45th anniversary of spaceflight
  • 12 June 2003, - for large contribution to the development of manned space flight
  • 3 March 1997) - for the contribution to the development of space, the strengthening of international scientific and cultural ties and years of diligent work

Soviet

• Honoured Master of Sports (19 June 1963)
• Hero of the Soviet Union (22 June 1963)
• Order of Lenin (22 June 1963; 6 May 1981) - for making progress on the development and strengthening of ties with the progressive community and peace-loving forces of foreign countries
• Order of the October Revolution (1 December 1971)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour (5 March 1987) - for social activities
• Order of the Friendship of Peoples
• Pilot-Cosmonaut of the Soviet Union

Other awards - Warsaw Pact

• "Gold Star" Hero of Socialist Labour (Czechoslovakia) (August 1963)
• "Gold Star" Hero of Socialist Labour (Bulgaria) (Bulgaria, 9 September 1963)
• Order of Georgi Dimitrov (Bulgaria, 9 September 1963)
• Order of Karl Marx (October 1963, East Germany)
• Medal of Becker (October 1963, East Germany)
• Cross of Grunwald, 1st class (October 1963, Poland)
• Order of the National Flag with diamonds (Hungary, April 1965)
• Order "For Achievements in Science" (Romania, 17 November 1973)
• Medal "For Strengthening Brotherhood in Arms" (Bulgaria, 1976)
• Order of Klement Gottwald (Czechoslovakia)

Other awards

• Order of the Star of Nepal, 1st class (November 1963)
• Order of the Star of the Republic of Indonesia, 2nd class (November 1963)
• Order of the Volta (Ghana, January 1964)
• "Gold Soyombo" Hero of Labour (Mongolia)
• Order of Sukhbaatar (Mongolia, May 1965)
• Order of the Enlightenment (Afghanistan, August 1969)
• Order of Planets (Jordan, December 1969)
• Order of the Nile (Egypt, January 1971)
• "Gold Star" Hero of Labour (Vietnam) (October 1971)
• Order of Bernardo O'Higgins (Chile, March 1972)
• Order of the Yugoslav Flag with sash (November 1972)
• Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun (Peru, 1974)
• Order of the Bay of Pigs (Cuba, 1974)
• Order of Anne Betancourt (Cuba, 1974)
• Order of the Duke of Branimir, with sash (Croatia, 17 February 2003)

Scientific, social and religious organizations

• Gold Medal, Tsiolkovsky Academy of Sciences of the USSR
• Gold Medal of the British Society for interplanetary communications "For achievements in space exploration" (February 1964)
• Gold Medal of the "Cosmos" (FAI)
• Award Galambera Astronautics
• Gold Medal of Peace Joliot-Curie (France, 1964)
• Order "Wind Rose" International Committee of the National Aeronautics and Space Missions
• "Golden mimosa" of the Italian Union of Women (1963)
• Sign of the Komsomol "For active in the League" (1963)
• Gold Medal Exhibition of Economic Achievements (28 June 1963)
• Honour of DOSAAF (1 July 1963)
• Order of St. 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 she 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)