Naina Yeltsina

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.

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Iosifovna and the family name is Yeltsina.
Naina Yeltsina
Наина Ельцина
Yeltsina celebrating her 85th birthday in 2017
First Lady of Russia
In role
10 July 1991 – 31 December 1999
PresidentBoris Yeltsin
Preceded byPost established
Succeeded byLyudmila Putina
Personal details
Born
Anastasia Iosifovna Girina

(1932-03-14) 14 March 1932
Orenburg Region, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1956; died 2007)​
Children2, including Tatyana Yumasheva

Biography

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 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 presented her personal life memoir book in the Yeltsin Center and then in Moscow.[5][6][7]

References
  1. The Swedish Royal Court, The Monarchy - State visits 1990-1999
  2. Visitors to Finland
  3. Russian President Leaves Beijing for Home
  4. 1932 - родилась Наина Иосифовна Ельцина Retrieved 24 April 2007
  5. Биография Наины Ельциной // РИА Новости
  6. Наина Ельцина читает фрагменты своих мемуаров // Анонс Ельцин-Центра, январь 2017.
  7. Наина Ельцина представляет мемуары «Личная жизнь» // Анонс Ельцин-Центра, июль 2017.
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