MOSCOW, November 15. /TASS/. Russia and Mongolia have agreed to train the first Mongolian female cosmonaut, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Viktoria Abramchenko said after a meeting of the Russian-Mongolian inter-governmental commission on Tuesday.

"The traditional Russian-Mongolian partnership in the sphere of space exploration continues. We agreed that Russian specialists would train the first Mongolian woman cosmonaut. I believe that this will be a good and landmark project and will be a follow-up to the joint flight by Vladimir Dzhanibekov and first Mongolian cosmonaut Jugderdemidiin Gurragchaa," the deputy prime minister said.

The Russian space agency Roscosmos earlier announced it was in talks with the Mongolian Digital Development and Communications Ministry on the prospect of sending the country’s first female cosmonaut into the Earth’s orbit. Currently, Belarus is selecting a cosmonaut to travel to the orbital station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft in 2023.