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(Redirected from Lyudmyla Kuchma) First Lady of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005 In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Mykolaivna and the family name is Kuchma.

Liudmyla Kuchma
Людмила Кучма
Kuchma in 2000
First Lady of Ukraine
In office
19 July 1994 – 23 January 2005
PresidentLeonid Kuchma
Preceded byAntonina Kravchuk
Succeeded byKateryna Yushchenko
Personal details
BornLyudmila Nikolayevna Talalayeva
(1940-06-19) 19 June 1940 (age 84)
Votkinsk, Udmurt ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Udmurtia, Russia)
Spouse Leonid Kuchma ​(m. 1967)​
RelationsGennady Fyodorovich Tumanov (stepfather; 1918–1989)
ChildrenOlena Pinchuk
OccupationFormer design engineer
Awards

Liudmyla Mykolaivna Kuchma (née Talalaieva; born 19 June 1940) is the wife of second Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and a former First Lady of Ukraine. 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 Dnipropetrovsk.

Personal life

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

Honors

In 1998, Kuchma was awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas. and Order of Princess Olga First Class (2010). 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.

Notes

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

References

  1. Митрополит Владимир наградил Людмилу Кучму орденом святой великомученицы Варвары
  2. Папа без кавычек
  3. Декрет Президента Литвы от 4 ноября 1998 года No. 222
  4. "Янукович наградил жену Леонида Кучмы орденом княгини Ольги". KP.UA (in Russian). Retrieved 1 April 2024.
  5. Новости, Р. И. А. (29 September 2004). "Людмила Кучма обсудила в ЮНЕСКО вопросы поддержки талантливых детей и молодежи". РИА Новости (in Russian). Retrieved 1 April 2024.

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Honorary titles
Preceded byAntonina Kravchuk First Lady of Ukraine
1994–2005 		Succeeded byKateryna Yushchenko
First ladies of Ukraine
UPR Presidential Standard
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