Lyudmyla Yanukovych facts for kids
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Lyudmyla Yanukovych
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| Людмила Янукович | |
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| 4th First Lady of Ukraine | |
| In role 25 February 2010 – 22 February 2014 |
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| President | Viktor Yanukovych |
| Preceded by | Kateryna Yushchenko |
| Succeeded by | Hanna Turchynova (Acting) |
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| Born |
Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Nastenko
9 October 1949 Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union |
| Spouse |
Viktor Yanukovych
(m. 1971; div. 2016) |
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| Alma mater | Donbas 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.
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. 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.
