Liudmyla Kuchma

First Lady of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005

Людмила Кучма

Kuchma in 2000

First Lady of UkraineIn office
19 July 1994 – 23 January 2005PresidentLeonid KuchmaPreceded byAntonina KravchukSucceeded byKateryna Yushchenko Personal detailsBorn

Lyudmila Nikolayevna Talalayeva

(1940-06-19) 19 June 1940 (age 83)
Votkinsk, Udmurt ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Udmurtia, Russia)Spouse

Leonid Kuchma

(m. 1967)

RelationsGennady Fyodorovich Tumanov (stepfather; 1918–1989)ChildrenOlena PinchukOccupationFormer design engineerAwards

Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
Order of Princess Olga First Class

Liudmyla Mykolaivna Kuchma^[a] (née Talalaieva^[b]; 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.^{[citation needed]}

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 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.^{[citation needed]}

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

Notes

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

References

^ Митрополит Владимир наградил Людмилу Кучму орденом святой великомученицы Варвары
^ Папа без кавычек
^ Декрет Президента Литвы от 4 ноября 1998 года No. 222
^ "Янукович наградил жену Леонида Кучмы орденом княгини Ольги". KP.UA (in Russian). Retrieved 1 April 2024.
^ 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.