Lyudmila Ter-Petrosyan
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| birth_name = Lyudmila Froimi Pleskovskaya
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| office1 = First Lady of Armenia
| president1 = Levon Ter-Petrossian
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| term_start1 = 11 November 1991
| term_end1 = 3 February 1998
| predecessor1 = Post created
| successor1 = Bella Kocharyan
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| birth_place = Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
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| nationality = Russian
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Lyudmila Ter-Petrosyan, née Pleskovskaya ({{Langx|ru|Людмила Фроимовна Тер-Петросян}}; {{langx|hy|Լյուդմիլա Տեր-Պետրոսյան}}, born December 20, 1948, in Saint Petersburg) was the first First Lady of Armenia from 1991 to 1998, wife of the President of Armenia, Levon Ter-Petrosyan. She is the founder (1994) and leader of All-Armenian Women Union, a non-governmental organization working to protect the rights of women and children.
Biography
Lyudmila Ter-Petrossian was born in Leningrad, USSR. Her father was an army officer who fought in World War II and her mother was a doctor who took part in the defense of Leningrad. She graduated from the Department of Germanistics of the Leningrad State University. In 1972 she married Levon Ter-Petrossian, then a young post-graduate student, and moved to Yerevan. During the 20 years she worked at Armenian State Radio as a journalist and editor.
Since the 1990s she became a public activist, working for the children's rights and supporting disabled children in Armenia. For her public activities in 1995 she was awarded by a medal from UNICEF. In 1996, at the initiative of Ter-Petrossian and the All Armenian Women's Union, the National Assembly of Armenia was one of the first among the post-USSR republics of to adopt a law on the rights of children.[http://www.levonforpresident.com/en/154/ Ludmila Ter-Petrossian, Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080224070741/http://www.levonforpresident.com/en/154/ |date=2008-02-24 }} In 1997, the Developmental Services for Armenia (DSA) organization was established in Los Angeles by the initiative of Lyudmila Ter-Petrossian.
Ter-Petrossian was an honorary participant of different International conferences organized by Hillary Clinton, Rosalynn Carter, Anne-Aymone Giscard d'Estaing and others. She organized 4 International Women Conferences (1994, 2005, 2006, 2007) in Armenia. In 2006, she established an informal club for the women of the South Caucasus.
She has one son, David Ter-Petrossian, and four grandchildren.
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080517131443/http://www.payqar.org/am/154/ Biography]
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Category:First ladies of Armenia
Category:Armenian people of Russian descent