Naina Yeltsina Explained

Naina Yeltsina
Office:First Lady of Russia
Term Label:In role
Term Start:10 July 1991
Term End:31 December 1999
President:Boris Yeltsin
Predecessor:Post established
Successor:Lyudmila Putina
Birth Name:Anastasia Iosifovna Girina
Birth Date:14 March 1932
Birth Place:Orenburg Region, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Children:2, including Tatyana Yumasheva

Anastasia "Naina" Iosifovna Yeltsina (Russian: link=no|Анастасия "Наина" Иосифовна Ельцина,, Russian: Гирина; born 14 March 1932) is the widow of the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin.

Early life and education

Naina Yeltsina was born in the Orenburg Oblast in 1932. After graduating from the construction faculty at the Ural Polytechnic Institute in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) in 1955, she worked with various projects at the Sverdlovsk Institute.

Personal life

In 1956, she married Boris Yeltsin, whom she met at the Sverdlovsk institute, and has lived in Moscow since 1985. They have two daughters, Yelena and Tatyana, born in 1957 and 1960, respectively.

First lady

Naina Yeltsina was rarely seen in public. She accompanied her husband on some of his foreign visits including 1997 visits to Sweden[1] and Finland[2] and a 1999 visit to China.[3] As a rule, Naina Yeltsina never interfered in her husband's political work; however, in the 1996 election campaign, she met with voters and gave interviews to the media.[4] She made a major public appearance in April 2007 at her husband's state funeral in Moscow.

Later life

In 2017, Naina Yeltsina launched her autobiography at both the Yeltsin Center and then in Moscow.[5] [6] [7]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.kungahuset.se/royalcourt/monarchy/royalvisits/statevisits/19901999.4.396160511584257f2180002809.html The Swedish Royal Court, The Monarchy - State visits 1990-1999
  2. http://www.tpk.fi/ahtisaari/eng/visits/visitors.html Visitors to Finland
  3. http://english.people.com.cn/english/199912/10/eng19991210N112.html Russian President Leaves Beijing for Home
  4. http://www.rian.ru/history/20070314/61954631.html 1932 - родилась Наина Иосифовна Ельцина
  5. https://ria.ru/spravka/20170314/1489901868.html Биография Наины Ельциной
  6. https://yeltsin.ru/affair/naina-elcina-chitaet-fragmenty-svoih-memuarov/ Наина Ельцина читает фрагменты своих мемуаров
  7. https://yeltsin.ru/affair/moskva-naina-elcina-predstavlyaet-memuary-lichnaya-zhizn/ Наина Ельцина представляет мемуары «Личная жизнь»