Lyudmyla Yanukovych | |
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Людмила Янукович | |
4th First Lady of Ukraine | |
In role 25 February 2010 – 22 February 2014 | |
President | Viktor Yanukovych |
Preceded by | Kateryna Yushchenko |
Succeeded by | Hanna Turchynova (Acting) |
Personal details | |
Born | Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Nastenko 9 October 1949 Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union |
Spouse | |
Children | |
Alma mater | Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture |
Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Yanukovych (Ukrainian: Людмила Олександрівна Янукович; Russian: Людмила Александровна Янукович, romanized: Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Yanukovich, née Nastenko (Настенко); born 9 October 1949) is the ex-wife of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and former First Lady of Ukraine.
Biography
Lyudmyla was born in Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine SSR on 9 October 1949. She graduated from the Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture.[1]
She worked at Yenakiyeve Iron and Steel Works, in the design and appraisal bureau. She was a specialist of the Enakievmetalurgbud Trust.
She married Viktor Yanukovych in 1971. In February 2017, Yanukovych stated that after 45 years of marriage he had divorced Lyudmyla. With her ex-husband, Lyudmila Yanukovych had two sons, Oleksandr and Viktor, and three grandsons Viktor, Oleksandr and Iliya.[2] From 2006 to 2014, the younger Viktor was a member of the Parliament of Ukraine; he died in 2015.
Ukrayinska Pravda claims that during Yanukovych presidency his wife Lyudmyla lived separately in Donetsk. After the start of the war in Donbas she reportedly moved to Crimea.[3]
References
- ↑ Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Yanukovych
- ↑ "About us: The Leader". partyofregions.org.ua. Archived from the original on 2 March 2010.
- ↑ Yanukovych said that he divorced wife, Ukrayinska Pravda (27 February 2017)
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