Liudmyla Kuchma
Людмила Кучма
Kuchma c. 2000
First Lady of Ukraine
In office
19 July 1994 – 23 January 2005
PresidentLeonid Kuchma
Preceded byAntonina Kravchuk
Succeeded byKateryna Yushchenko
Personal details
Born
Lyudmila Nikolayevna Talalayeva

(1940-06-19) 19 June 1940
Votkinsk, Udmurt ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Udmurtia, Russia)
Spouse
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(m. 1967)​
RelationsGennady Fyodorovich Tumanov (stepfather; 1918–1989)
ChildrenOlena Pinchuk
OccupationFormer design engineer
Awards

Liudmyla Mykolaivna Kuchma[lower-alpha 1] (née Talalaieva[lower-alpha 2]; born 19 June 1940) is the wife of second Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and a former First Lady of Ukraine.[1] She had previously worked as a design engineer.

Early life and education

Liudmyla Kuchma was born in Udmurtia, and studied at a music school located in the house-museum of Pyotr Tchaikovsky . She graduated from mechanical college.

Career

For thirty years, she worked as an engineer in the design office of a production association in Dnepropetrovsk.

Personal life

In 1967, she married Leonid Kuchma, the late president of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005. Her daughter Olena was born in 1970.[2]

Honors

In 1998, Kuchma was awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.[3] and Order of Princess Olga First Class (2010).[4] Since 1996, she has been Honorary President of the National Fund for Social Protection of Mother and Child.

Since 12 May 2004, she has been Special Ambassador of UNESCO to help young talents.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑
    • Ukrainian: Людмила Миколаївна Кучма
    • Russian: Людми́ла Никола́евна Ку́чма, romanized: Lyudmila Nikolayevna Kuchma
  2. ↑
    • Ukrainian: Талалаєва
    • Russian: Талалаева, romanized: Talalayeva

References

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