Naina Yeltsina
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| Наина Ельцина | |
Yeltsina in 2017
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| First Lady of Russia | |
| In role 10 July 1991 – 31 December 1999 | |
| President | Boris Yeltsin |
| Preceded by | Post established |
| Succeeded by | Lyudmila Putina |
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| Born | Anastasia Iosifovna Girina (1932-03-14) 14 March 1932 (age 92) Orenburg Region, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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(m. 1956; died 2007) |
| Children | 2, including Tatyana Yumasheva |
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Anastasia "Naina" Iosifovna Yeltsina (Russian: Анастасия『Наина』Иосифовна Ельцина, née Girina, Гирина; born 14 March 1932) is the widow of the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin.
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.
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.
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.
In 2017, Naina Yeltsina launched her autobiography at both the Yeltsin Center and then in Moscow.[5][6][7]
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First Lady of Russia 1991-1999 |
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