Lyudmyla_Yanukovych

Lyudmyla Yanukovych

Lyudmyla Yanukovych

Former First Lady of Ukraine


Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Yanukovych (Ukrainian: Людмила Олександрівна Янукович; Russian: Людмила Александровна Янукович, romanized: Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Yanukovich, Belarusian: Людміла Аляксандраўна Януковіч, romanized: Liudmila Aliaksandraŭna Janukovič, née Nastenko (Настенко); born 9 October 1949) is the ex-wife of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and a former First Lady of Ukraine.

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Biography

Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Nastenko 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, Viktor stated that he had divorced Lyudmyla after 45 years of marriage. 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's presidency, the First Lady lived separately in Donetsk. After the start of the war in Donbas, she reportedly moved to Crimea.[3]


References

  1. "About us: The Leader". partyofregions.org.ua. Archived from the original on 2 March 2010.
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