Biography
Valentina Gagarina is the widow of the cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. The attention of society was riveted to the woman after the flight of the spouse into space. Valentina's biography stages Ivanovna replaced in accordance with the new status and the profession of her husband. After his death, the woman led a quiet and measured life without speculating the information owned, and not attracting attention to the media.Childhood and youth
Valentina Goryacheva was born on December 15, 1935 in Orenburg. Valya turned out to be the youngest of six children. The girl grew in the family chef and housewife. Father taught to the wisdom of cooking, and Goryothev knew how to cook from childhood. Mother handed the daughter of knitting and sewing skills. During the Great Patriotic War, two Vali brothers died.
Having completed training in high school, the girl arranged to work on the telegraph. Parallel Valya received education in the Orenburg Medical School. Like most peers, she spent free time on dancing. There was an acquaintance with Yuri Gagarin.
Personal life
At the time of the meeting with the future spouse Gagarin was a cadet of the aviation school. K. E. Voroshilova. The relationship of young people developed conservatively. Yuri cared for the beloved until their fate decided to transfer a young man to serve in another city. The couple scheduled in 1957 and moved to the Murmansk region, in the village of Lutari. In 1959, Gagarines became the parents of the girl named Elena.In the status of Wife Gagarin Valentina completely plunged into the nuances of professional activities. During this period, the whole country discussed the launch of an artificial satellite, which was brought to orbit. Soon the officers who selectively communicate with the pilots arrived in the town. Gagarin interested them and received a challenge to Moscow. So the pilot was among the 20 cosmonauts. After married Valentina and daughter left the already familiar Luostari. Since the work of the spouse was classified, the family was seriously responsible, and life had to rebuild in a short time.
In 1961, the family celebrated the emergence of the second daughter of Galina. In the same year, an departure of the Vostok-1 ship took place.
Career
Valentina Gagarina was not chased by the career. At first, the woman worked as a laboratory manner in the medical department of the star town. Returning after the flight on April 12, 1961 to his homeland, Gagarin received an increase. From Lieutenant, he turned into a major and became a cumier of millions. Cosmonaut gained a lot of privileges, skipping to significant events and permission to communicate with the first persons of states. To be a man's wife who came to the list of the most famous people of the USSR was an achievement that required the regulations.
Education of the daughters later Valentina Gagarin combined with work at the Flight Management Center. Free time spent behind the needlework. Despite the fact that the family became famous worldwide, and the photos of the spouses with the children appeared in the media, Gagarins did not change the lifestyle. Valentina was still knitted with her husband warm things and led the farm. An attractive woman of low growth, she often accompanied the spouse at official receptions and in foreign trips, demonstrating the world of marriage.
The death of Sergei Queen had a negative impact on astronauts. Gagarin defeated as a national heritage, but he dreamed of continuing flights and studying space. After the death of the pilot on March 27, 1968, Valentina's training flight was in a terrible position: her beloved man did not, children remained in her arms.
Forgetting about the personal life, the widow of the cosmonaut dedicated himself to the upbringing of daughters. She did not give an interview, avoided conversations about the death of a husband with journalists, continued to communicate with his colleagues on the first detachment and their wives. Valentine's new people awaited. The book "108 minutes and all life", published in 1981, literally forced it to write. To continue to share with society experiences and the woman known to her, I did not want.
Gagarin left the family to the inheritance of 2 apartments, in Moscow and the Star Town. He did not give a state and did not make financial reserves, so it was not necessary to live in the luxury of widow and daughters. Until the mid-1990s, Valentina Ivanovna worked in a star town. TV channels have repeatedly offered her participation in the talk show, but Gagarin with dignity refused such invitations.
Death
Valentina Gagarin spent the last years of life in the same house where she lived with his spouse in his youth. Not far from it is a bas-relief in memory of Yuri Gagarin. For many years he reminded her of his beloved man.
The widow of the cosmonaut died on March 17, 2020 in the hospital from the suffered stroke. It is not known whether it was pretty earlier and which provoked a blow that caused death, as a woman lived, communicating only with the most close people.