Roscosmos is preparing a new selection for the cosmonaut corps, and girls will be among the candidates, while the requirements for everyone will remain the same, with no concessions. The selection is tied to the growing number of space flights and the expansion of the ISS crew, where in the future six people instead of three are planned to work at once. The article also notes that in the entire history of Soviet and Russian cosmonautics, only three women have flown into space, including Valentina Tereshkova.

Yesterday, the head of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Anatoly Perminov, said during a teleconference with the International Space Station that a new recruitment of young specialists into the cosmonaut corps is being prepared, including women. “We will be preparing and conducting another recruitment, that is, replenishing the cosmonaut corps, because we already do not have enough young specialists,” he said.
So far, the federal space agency has not specified how many women will be recruited, but it says that the requirements for female applicants will be exactly the same as for men, with no concessions provided for them.
“There is no difference at all in the training of women and men,” said Ivan Reznikov, doctor of the RKK Energia cosmonaut corps. “All standards must be met equally, and there are no indulgences or allowances for the weaker sex.”
Recruitment into the cosmonaut corps, Reznikov explained, is planned in connection with the increase in the number of space flights and the expansion of the crew that must be on the ISS. According to him, it is planned that there will be six people working on the station at the same time instead of three, as now. The cosmonaut corps is being replenished by RKK Energia (the agency trains engineers) and the Cosmonaut Training Center, which is currently recruiting in aviation units. “It would be desirable for young people from MAI, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, and graduates of other technical universities to come to us - they have a direct opportunity to join the cosmonaut corps,” Reznikov said. At the same time, he noted that very few people today truly want to become cosmonauts. Applications for admission to the corps are equally few from both women and men.
Recall that throughout the entire history of Soviet, and then Russian, cosmonautics, there have been only three female cosmonauts. The first female cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, is the most famous of them. On June 16, 1963, Tereshkova went into orbit aboard the Vostok-6 spacecraft; her flight lasted 2 days 22 hours 50 minutes.
After her, two more Russian women, Svetlana Savitskaya and Yelena Kondakova, flew into space.