Andrey Rodionov, the son-in-law of the first female cosmonaut and State Duma deputy Valentina Tereshkova, told Gazeta.ru that she and her mother-in-law were not familiar with and had not heard of the Atomic Heart computer game. Tereshkova robot character. According to her, neither she nor Valentina Tereshkova play computer games.
“I don’t play with toys, so I don’t know anything about it. Moreover, Valentina Vladimirovna does not play with toys, and I guarantee that she does not know anything about it. I don’t know what it is, how can I relate to it? Listen, neighbors are destroying monuments to our great people – they don’t care. And some kind of toy excites you. If a movie is being made about astronauts, that’s probably fine, they’ll remember that. If they also put toys. If toys are bad, they are bad,” he said.
In February 2023, Russian studio Mundfish released the game Atomic Heart. Its action takes place in an alternate reality in the USSR. Among the characters in the game is a robot tour guide “Tereshkova” – in social networks it is believed that the character got its name from the female cosmonaut and State Duma deputy Valentina Tereshkova. The actors also put on Tereshkova’s costume and imagine what she might look like in real life.