Raisa Atambayeva | |
Office1: | First Lady of Kyrgyzstan |
President1: | Almazbek Atambayev |
Term Start1: | 1 December 2011 |
Term Label1: | In role |
Term End1: | 24 November 2017 |
Predecessor1: | Amiya Sadybakasova |
Successor1: | Aigul Tokoyeva |
Birth Date: | 25 June 1959[1] |
Birth Place: | Tatar ASSR, RSFSR, Soviet Union |
Nationality: | Kyrgyz |
Residence: | State Dacha No. 17, Ala Archa State Residence |
Spouse: | Almazbek Atambayev (m. 1988) |
Children: | 2 |
Profession: | Doctor |
Raisa Minakhmedovna Atambayeva (Russian: Раиса Минахмедовна Атамбаева;[2] born 25 June 1959) is the wife of the former President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev and First Lady of Kyrgyzstan from 2011 to 2017. She is an ethnic Tatar and was born in the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. She is a doctor.[3]
She was born on 25 June 1959 in the Urals of the Russian SFSR. During the Soviet era, she moved with her parents to Osh, Kyrgyz SSR. Here she graduated from the secondary school named after Lomonosov, where she learned English and Kyrgyz. Atambaeva is a candidate of medical sciences.[4]
She is married to Almazbek Atambayev. She has 2 children with Atambayev, a boy Khadyrbek and a girl Aliya.[5]