Lyudmyla Yanukovych

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Oleksandrivna and the family name is Nastenko.

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 Yanukovych
Людмила Янукович
Yanukovych in 2013
First Lady of Ukraine
In role 25 February 2010 – 22 February 2014
President	Viktor Yanukovych
Preceded by	Kateryna Yushchenko
Succeeded by	Hanna Turchynova (Acting)
Personal details
Born	Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Nastenko (1949-10-09) 9 October 1949 (age 75) Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union
Spouse	Viktor Yanukovych ​ ​ (m. 1971; div. 2016)​
Children	Oleksandr Viktor
Alma mater	Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture

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.

Ukrainska 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]