Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Yanukovych ( uk, Людмила Олександрівна Янукович; russian: Людмила Александровна Янукович, Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Yanukovich, née Nastenko (Настенко); born 9 October 1949) is the ex-wife of former

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Viktor Yanukovych Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych ( uk, Віктор Федорович Янукович, ; ; born 9 July 1950) is a former politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 until he was removed from office in the Revolution of Di ...

and former

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Biography

Lyudmyla was born in

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on 9 October 1949. She graduated from the

Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture ( uk, Донбаська національна академія будівництва і архітектури; abbreviated ДонНАБА) is one of the largest engineering univers ...

. She worked at

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, in the design and appraisal bureau. She was a specialist of the Enakievmetalurgbud Trust. She married

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

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, and three grandsons Viktor, Oleksandr and Iliya. From 2006 to 2014, the younger Viktor was a member of the

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; he died in 2015. ''

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'' claims that during Yanukovych presidency his wife Lyudmyla lived separately in

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. After the start of the

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she reportedly moved to

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.Yanukovych said that he divorced wife
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'' (27 February 2017)

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