Lyudmyla Yanukovych
Людмила Янукович
4th First Lady of Ukraine
In role
25 February 2010  22 February 2014
PresidentViktor Yanukovych
Preceded byKateryna Yushchenko
Succeeded byHanna Turchynova (Acting)
Personal details
Born
Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Nastenko

(1949-10-09) 9 October 1949
Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union
Spouse
(m. 1971; div. 2016)
Children
Alma materDonbas 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

  1. Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Yanukovych
  2. "About us: The Leader". partyofregions.org.ua. Archived from the original on 2 March 2010.
  3. Yanukovych said that he divorced wife, Ukrayinska Pravda (27 February 2017)


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