Anastasia "Naina" Iosifovna Yeltsina (russian: link=no, Анастасия "Наина" Иосифовна Ельцина, , ; born 14 March 1932) is the widow of the first President of Russia,

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin ( rus, Борис Николаевич Ельцин, p=bɐˈrʲis nʲɪkɐˈla(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈjelʲtsɨn, a=Ru-Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin.ogg; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician wh ...

Early life and education

Naina Yeltsina was born in the

Orenburg Oblast Orenburg Oblast (russian: Оренбургская область, ''Orenburgskaya oblast'') is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Orenburg. From 1938 to 1957, it bore the name ''Chkalov Oblast'' () ...

in 1932. After graduating from the construction faculty at the

Ural Polytechnic Institute Ural State Technical University (USTU) is a public university, public Institute of technology, technical university in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russian Federation. It is the biggest technical institution of higher education in Russia, with ...

in Sverdlovsk (now

Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administra ...

) in 1955, she worked with various projects at the Sverdlovsk Institute.

Personal life

In 1956, she married

, whom she met at the Sverdlovsk institute, and has lived in Moscow since 1985. They have two daughters, Yelena and Tatyana, born in 1957 and 1960, respectively.

First lady

Naina Yeltsina was rarely seen in public. She accompanied her husband on some of his foreign visits including 1997 visits to Sweden and Finland and a 1999 visit to China. As a rule, Naina Yeltsina never interfered in her husband's political work; however, in the 1996 election campaign, she met with voters and gave interviews to the media. She made a major public appearance in April 2007 at her husband's

state funeral A state funeral is a public funeral ceremony, observing the strict rules of protocol, held to honour people of national significance. State funerals usually include much pomp and ceremony as well as religious overtones and distinctive elements of ...

in Moscow.

Later life

In 2017, Naina Yeltsina launched her autobiography at the book at both the Yeltsin Center and then in Moscow.Биография Наины Ельциной
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Наина Ельцина представляет мемуары «Личная жизнь»
// Анонс Ельцин-Центра, июль 2017.

References

External links

, - 1932 births Living people First Ladies of Russia People from Sharlyksky District Recipients of the Cavaliers Order of Saint Catherine the Great Martyr Family of Boris Yeltsin {{russia-bio-stub