Lyudmyla Yanukovych

Людмила Янукович4th First Lady of UkraineIn role
25 February 2010 – 22 February 2014PresidentViktor YanukovychPreceded byKateryna YushchenkoSucceeded byHanna Turchynova (Acting) Personal detailsBorn
(1949-10-09) 9 October 1949 (age 74)
Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine SSR, Soviet UnionSpouse ChildrenAlma materDonbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture

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.

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]

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