AKIPRESS.COM - Chairman of the State National Security Committee of Kyrgyzstan Kamchybek Tashiyev on December 7 visited the boarding school named after Valentina Tereshkova under construction in the city of Osh and got acquainted with the process of construction.

The boarding school will accommodate 700 children and have a dormitory for 500 seats. To date, construction works have been completed at 70%. The building has a volleyball ground, a hall, and a 4-storey dormitory.

In August 2023, it was reported that the capital construction department of the mayor’s office of Osh city had announced tender for construction of a dormitory for the main boarding school #11 named after Tereshkova. The building accommodates 500 children. The planned cost of the project is 308,248,000 soms.

Kamchybek Tashiyev finished this boarding school. He, his classmates and teachers planted trees on the territory of the new school.

The opening ceremony of the school is scheduled for September 2025.

"I think that we can invite Valentina Tereshkova to the inauguration ceremony," the Chief of the GKNB said.

Valentina Nikolayeva-Tereshkova Tereshkova (born 6 March 1937) is a Russian engineer, member of the State Duma, and former Soviet cosmonaut. She was the first woman in space, having flown a solo mission on Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, is the only woman to have been on a solo space mission and is the last surviving Vostok programme cosmonaut. Twenty-six years old at the time of her spaceflight, she remains the youngest woman to have flown in space under the international definition of 100 km altitude, and the youngest woman to fly in Earth orbit.