Lyudmyla Yanukovych | |
Birth Name: | Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Nastenko |
Birth Date: | 1949 10, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union |
Order1: | 4th First Lady of Ukraine |
Term Label1: | In role |
Term Start1: | 25 February 2010 |
Term End1: | 22 February 2014 |
President1: | Viktor Yanukovych |
Predecessor1: | Kateryna Yushchenko |
Alma Mater: | Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture |
Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Yanukovych (uk|Людмила Олександрівна Янукович; ru|Людмила Александровна Янукович|Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Yanukovich, be|Людміла Аляксандраўна Януковіч|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]