First Lady of Ukraine

First Lady of
Ukraine
Inaugural holder Antonina Kravchuk
Formation May 12, 1991
Kateryna Yushchenko, the only one socially active First Lady, with her husband Viktor Yushchenko, George W. Bush and Laura Bush, April 4, 2005 (the East Room of the White House)

First Lady of Ukraine is the unofficial title given by the society to the wife of the President of Ukraine. The post is highly ceremonial and rarely plays a role in social activism.

List

#
 Image
 First Lady
 Education Birth Marriage
 President
(Husband, unless noted)		 Tenure began
 Age at tenure start Tenure ended Length of retirement
 Death Lifespan
1 Antonina Kravchuk
(nee Mishura)
 Candidate of Economical Sciences
Kiev State University		 November 3, 1935 Leonid Kravchuk 1991 56 years, 32 days 1994 7,590 days 29,033 days (79 years, 178 days)
2 Ludmila Kuchma
(nee Talalayeva)
 Mechanical engineer
Votkinsk Machine-building College		 June 19, 1940 1967[1] Leonid Kuchma 1994 54 years, 30 days 2005 3,749 days 27,343 days (74 years, 315 days)
3 Kateryna Yushchenko
(nee Chumachenko)
 Master of Business Administration
University of Chicago		 September 1, 1961 1998 Viktor Yushchenko 2005 43 years, 144 days 2010 1,890 days 19,599 days (53 years, 241 days)
4 Ludmila Yanukovych
(nee Nastenko)
 Civil engineer
Makiivka Civil Engineering Institute		 October 9, 1949 November 1972[2][3] Viktor Yanukovych 2010 60 years, 139 days 2014 432 days 23,944 days (65 years, 203 days)
footnote Hanna Turchynova
(nee Beliba)
 Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences
Kyiv Linguistic University		 April 1, 1970 Oleksandr Turchynov 2014 43 years, 327 days 2014 327 days 16,465 days (45 years, 29 days)
5 Maryna Poroshenko
(nee Perevedentseva)
 Candidate of Medical Sciences
Kiev Medical Institute		 February 1, 1962 1984 Petro Poroshenko 2014 52 years, 126 days 19,446 days (53 years, 88 days)

List of first ladies of Ukrainian People's Republic

#
 Image
 First Lady
 Education Birth Marriage
 President
(Husband, unless noted)		 Tenure began
 Age at tenure start Tenure ended Length of retirement
 Death Lifespan
1 Maria-Ivanna Hrushevska
(nee Wojakiwska)
 Lemberg Lyceum November 8, 1868 May 1896 Mykhailo Hrushevsky 1917[4] 48 years, 119 days 1918 11,101 days September 19, 1948 29,169 days (79 years, 316 days)
2 Oleksandra Skoropadska
(nee Durnovo)
 May 23, 1878 11 January 1898[5] Pavlo Skoropadsky 1918 39 years, 341 days 1918 12,434 days December 29, 1952 27,248 days (74 years, 220 days)
3 Rozalia Vynnychenko
(nee Lifshitz)
 Medical doctor
University of Sorbonne		 July 26, 1886 28 March 1911 Volodymyr Vynnychenko 1918 32 years, 141 days 1919 14,603 days February 6, 1959 26,492 days (72 years, 195 days)
4 Olha Petliura
(nee Bilska)
 Pryluky Gymnasium December 23, 1885 1910 Symon Petliura 1919 33 years, 52 days 1926 12,235 days November 23, 1959 26,997 days (73 years, 335 days)
5 Photo Yaroslava Plavyuk
(nee Boyko)
 June 1948[6] Mykola Plavyuk 1989 1992

References

  1. ↑ Leonid Kuchma
  2. ↑ Wife and private life as a political factor. Part II. Ukrayinska Pravda. 13 August 2004
  3. ↑ Ludmila Yanukovych. Dossier.
  4. ↑ Hai-Nyzhnyk, P. Ukrainian Central Council. Pavlo Hai-Nyzhnyk website.
  5. ↑ Kulyova, V. General's daughter. Khreshchatyk. 8 November 2002
  6. ↑ Plavyuk, M. Ukraine is my life. From a son of peasant to statesman. Maria Fisher-Slyzh Library (Ukrainian life in Sevastopol).

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