Remarkable women
Valentina Tereshkova
She is a retired Soviet cosmonaut, engineer, and current member of the Russian State Duma. She was the fist woman who was in space with a solo mission on the Vostok 6, on June 16, 1963. Tereshkova also became the first civilian to fly in space as she was only honorarily inducted into the Soviet Air Force in order to join the Cosmonaut Corps.
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Anna Akhmatova
Akhmatova is considered to be one of the greats in Russian literature. At the age of 21, she joined the St. Petersburg-based poetry collective, The Alchemists. This group went on to create a literary style that was defined by its clarity and articulation, which was a direct response to the vagueness of Russian symbolism at the time. The poet’s work, which was known for its feminine grace, detailed the intricacies of romance and intimacy. Despite introducing degrees of patriotism and religion into her work during the Russian Revolution, she was branded as ‘bourgeois and aristocratic’ due to her desire to retain the self-reflexive nature of her poems. After WWII, she was denounced by the State, and much of her work was destroyed
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Sofia KovalevskayaNot only was Sofia Kovalevskaya the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate in mathematics, but she went on to become the first female appointed as a professor in the field.
The scientist was the first woman to join the board of academic journal, Acta Mathematica, and the first woman elected as member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. On top of her maths and academic achievements, she also wrote novels, plays and essays. |
Pussy riot
Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist protest punk rock group based in Moscow. The group staged unauthorized provocative guerrilla performances in public places, performances that were filmed as music videos and posted on the Internet. The collective's lyrical themes included feminism, LGBT rights and opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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