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.

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
Born
Lyudmila Nikolayevna Talalayeva

(1940-06-19) 19 June 1940 (age 84)
Votkinsk, Udmurt ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Udmurtia, Russia)
Spouse
(m. 1967)
RelationsGennady Fyodorovich Tumanov (stepfather; 1918–1989)
ChildrenOlena Pinchuk
OccupationFormer design engineer
Awards

Early life and education

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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

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For thirty years, she worked as an engineer in the design office of a production association in Dnipropetrovsk.

Personal life

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In 1967, she married Leonid Kuchma, the president of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005. Her daughter Olena was born in 1970.[2]

Honors

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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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  1. ^
    • Ukrainian: Людмила Миколаївна Кучма
    • Russian: Людми́ла Никола́евна Ку́чма, romanizedLyudmila Nikolayevna Kuchma
  2. ^
    • Ukrainian: Талалаєва
    • Russian: Талалаева, romanized: Talalayeva

References

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  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 by First Lady of Ukraine
1994–2005
Succeeded by