Photo location: Construction and assembly of the Vostok spacecraft capsule at the design bureau OKB-1 (today RKK Energiya) in Podlipki near Moscow (today Korolev), under the direction of Sergei Korolev.

Female designer drawing the Vostok spacecraft capsule. The photograph shows a female designer working at an angled drawing board to design the Vostok spacecraft capsule, a symbol of the scientific and technical achievement of Soviet spaceflight.

Scene: The engineer wears a white laboratory coat and stands concentrated at a large drawing board on which detailed technical drawings of the Vostok capsule are visible.

Background: A design office or technical department, possibly with additional engineers or plans on the walls.

Significance: The image shows the role of female scientists and engineers in Soviet spaceflight, who contributed substantially to the development of the Vostok capsule – the capsule in which Yuri Gagarin flew into space as the first human.

The photograph symbolizes the technological progress of the USSR and the important, often invisible work of the female designers who made the success of the space program possible.