Lyudmyla Yanukovych
{{short description|Former First Lady of Ukraine}}
{{use dmy dates|date=December 2019}}
{{family name hatnote|Oleksandrivna|Nastenko|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Lyudmyla Yanukovych
| native_name = {{nobold|Людмила Янукович}}
| image = Lyudmila Yanukovych (1).JPG
| birth_name = Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Nastenko
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1949|10|9}}
| birth_place = Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine SSR, Soviet Union
| order1 = First Lady of Ukraine
| term_label1 = In role
| term_start1 = 25 February 2010
| term_end1 = 22 February 2014
| president1 = Viktor Yanukovych
| predecessor1 = Kateryna Yushchenko|
| successor1 = Hanna Turchynova {{Small|(Acting)}}
| alma_mater = Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture
| spouse = {{marriage|Viktor Yanukovych|1971|2016|reason =divorce}}
| children = {{hlist|Oleksandr|Viktor}}
| relations =
| caption = Yanukovych in 2013
}}
Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Yanukovych ({{langx|uk|Людмила Олександрівна Янукович}}; {{langx|ru|Людмила Александровна Янукович|Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Yanukovich}}, {{langx|be|Людміла Аляксандраўна Януковіч|Liudmila Aliaksandraŭna Janukovič}}, née Nastenko (Настенко); born 9 October 1949) is the ex-wife of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and a former First Lady of Ukraine.
Biography
Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Nastenko was born in Yenakiieve, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine SSR on 9 October 1949. She graduated from the Donbas National Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture.[https://www.myheritage.com.ua/research/collection-10182/biographical-summaries-of-notable-people?itemId=2039459&action=showRecord Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna Yanukovych]
She worked at Yenakiyeve Iron and Steel Works, in the design and appraisal bureau. She was a specialist of the Enakievmetalurgbud Trust.
She married Viktor Yanukovych in 1971. In February 2017, Viktor stated that he had divorced Lyudmyla after 45 years of marriage. With her ex-husband, Lyudmila Yanukovych had two sons, Oleksandr and Viktor, and three grandsons, Viktor, Oleksandr and Iliya.{{cite web|url=http://www.partyofregions.org.ua/eng/meet/leader|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100302141906/http://www.partyofregions.org.ua/eng/meet/leader|archive-date=2 March 2010|title=About us: The Leader|work=partyofregions.org.ua}} From 2006 to 2014, the younger Viktor was a member of the Parliament of Ukraine; he died in 2015.
Ukrayinska Pravda claims that during Yanukovych's presidency, the First Lady lived separately in Donetsk. After the start of the war in Donbas, she reportedly moved to Crimea.[http://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2017/02/27/7136575/Yanukovych said that he divorced wife], Ukrayinska Pravda (27 February 2017)
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