Naina Yeltsina

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Iosifovna and the family name is 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.

Naina Yeltsina
Наина Ельцина
Yeltsina in 2017
First Lady of Russia
In role 10 July 1991 – 31 December 1999
President	Boris Yeltsin
Preceded by	Post established
Succeeded by	Lyudmila Putina
Personal details
Born	Anastasia Iosifovna Girina (1932-03-14) 14 March 1932 Orenburg Region, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Spouse	Boris Yeltsin ​ ​ (m. 1956; died 2007)​
Children	2, including Tatyana Yumasheva

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 and Finland and a 1999 visit to China. 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. 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.