Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina (Russian: Людми́ла Алекса́ндровна Пу́тина, pronounced [lʲʊdˈmʲilə ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvnə pʊˈtʲinə], Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina, née Shkrebneva, Шкребнева; born January 6, 1958, Kaliningrad, Soviet Union) is the wife of current Russian President and former Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
She married Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on July 28, 1983; they have two daughters, Maria, born 1985 and Yekaterina (Katja) (born 1986 in...
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Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina (Russian: Людми́ла Алекса́ндровна Пу́тина, pronounced [lʲʊdˈmʲilə ɐlʲɪkˈsandrəvnə pʊˈtʲinə], Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina, née Shkrebneva, Шкребнева; born January 6, 1958, Kaliningrad, Soviet Union) is the wife of current Russian President and former Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
She married Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on July 28, 1983; they have two daughters, Maria, born 1985 and Yekaterina (Katja) (born 1986 in Dresden, East Germany). The daughters attended the German School in Moscow (Deutsche Schule Moskau) until Putin's appointment as Prime Minister in 1999. Their photographs are not published by the Russian media, and no family portrait has ever been issued.
Putina is rarely seen with her husband and there are frequent rumours that the couple have separated. Putin has been linked with other women, including gymnast Alina Kabayeva and ex-spy Anna Chapman.
In her early years she was a flight attendant for the Kaliningrad branch of Aeroflot. In...
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