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
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(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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