Lyudmyla Yanukovych

Former First Lady of Ukraine

Людмила Янукович

Yanukovych in 2013

4th First Lady of UkraineIn role
25 February 2010 – 22 February 2014PresidentViktor YanukovychPreceded byKateryna YushchenkoSucceeded byHanna Turchynova (Acting) Personal detailsBorn

Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Nastenko

(1949-10-09) 9 October 1949 (age 74)
Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine SSR, Soviet UnionSpouse

Viktor Yanukovych

(m. 1971; div. 2016)

Children

Oleksandr
Viktor

Alma 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.

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

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