Naina Yeltsina celebrates her anniversary today. The wife of the first president of Russia turns 80.

The whole big Yeltsin family will come to celebrate the birthday of mom and grandmother. Boris Yeltsin started the tradition of celebrating birthdays and the New Year with the whole family, even when their daughters, Elena and Tatiana, were young.

Naina Iosifovna has three granddaughters, four grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.

Biography:

Naina Iosifovna was born on March 14, 1932 in the South Ural village of Titovka, Orenburg region, in the family of Joseph and Maria Girin. Her parents were deeply religious people, their six children / four sons and two daughters / were brought up in strict traditions.

At the age of 25, she changed her name from Anastasia to Naina. Because I changed my passport, I could not get used to the official address at the service of “Anastasia Iosifovna”.

In 1955 she graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Ural Polytechnic Institute. SM Kirov (Sverdlovsk) with a degree in civil engineer. After graduating from the institute, she was assigned as a civil engineer to Orenburg.

From 1956 to 1987. - the chief engineer of the project, then - the head of the group of the institute "Vodokanalproekt", Sverdlovsk, retired at the age of 55. Since 1987 he has been living in Moscow.

In 1999, Naina Yeltsina was awarded the Oliver international prize - For the Humanism of the Heart. The prize is awarded by the Frank Foundation for International Child Assistance.

She was also awarded the Olympia National Prize in the Honor and Dignity category. This is the only prize in Russia, which recognizes the achievements of outstanding women of the day in politics, business, science, art and culture.

Naina Yeltsina and her sister Rosa. Photographed by Boris Yeltsin

With Boris Yeltsin - Naina Iosifovna met while studying at the institute and happily lived with him in marriage for more than fifty years. Throughout all these years, Naina Iosifovna was always next to her husband, together with him she experienced all the ups and downs, all the difficulties and joys, while remaining a reliable rear for her husband.

Yeltsin himself later wrote: " All later life showed that it was fate. It was exactly that choice - one in a thousand. Naya accepted me and fell in love with what I was - stubborn, prickly and, of course, it was not so easy for her with me ... I loved her, soft, tender. Kind - for life".

Naina Yeltsina herself always said that she considered herself not a "first lady", but above all a wife, mother and grandmother: "Family is sacred for me. I can sacrifice anything, both sleep and health, for the sake of children, grandchildren, husband ... This is the need to please your loved ones. "

In 1949, Yeltsin entered the construction department of the Ural Polytechnic Institute named after SM. Kirov, but before passing the entrance exams, he passed a kind of "workshop" for suitability for construction business - he built a village bathhouse according to the "project" of his seventy-year-old grandfather.

In "Confession" again it is not specified what kind of grandfather it is: either it is grandfather Ignat, who ten years ago put the stoves in the village, or just one of the familiar fellow villagers. Here our "hero" gave free rein to his imagination: he alone felled pine trees and dragged logs on himself from the forest, which is three kilometers from the construction site, and alone lifted the upper crowns and so on.

The bathhouse, together with the waiting room, turned out to be excellent, the grandfather accepted the job with an "excellent" mark and gave the go-ahead for admission to the institute. I entered the institute easily, only two fours, the other fives. And the "strange" student life began, firmly connected with the game of volleyball. However, it is better to give the floor to the former student himself:

“Student life began: stormy, interesting. From the first year I plunged into public work. On the sports line - the chairman of the sports bureau, on me - the organization of all sports events.

At that time he was already engaged in volleyball at a fairly high level, became a member of the city's national volleyball team, and a year later he participated in the Sverdlovsk national team in the games of the major league, where the 12 best teams of the country played.

All five years, while I was at the institute, played, trained, traveled around the country, the loads were enormous. True, we took 6-7 places, did not become champions, but everyone took us seriously ”.

There is no time for study here. We do not find in Boris Yeltsin's memoirs memories of professors and teachers of the UPI named after S.M. Kirov (the case with Professor Regitsky is a pleasant exception), about work in student circles or the student scientific society of the institute, about the reports he made at student scientific conferences, what topics of term papers or projects he had to work out, which of his professors-mentors he remembered for the whole the rest of your life.

There is nothing of this, as if he is not a student of UPI, but of some kind of physical education institute, or, at least, a full-time volleyball coach at the physical education department of the same UPI. There is no time for him to engage in scientific work, to pass the next session and again into battle.

“Volleyball really left a big mark in my life, since I not only played, but then coached four teams: the second team of UPI, women, men, - in general, it took me six hours to play volleyball every day and study (and no one indulges me did not give) I had only late in the evening or at night, even then I taught myself to sleep a little, and until now I somehow got used to this regime and slept for 3.5-4 hours ... "Completely, without indulgences, of course, did not do.

“We all studied a little ...” and we know perfectly well the privileged conditions in which sports stars of institutes and universities invariably found themselves. For the sake of the sporting honor of the institute, the dean's office calmly closed its eyes to any absenteeism, absences, and no one asked strictly from such students: if only they won more diplomas, cups, pennants.

In this situation, a sports star, in principle, may not attend classes at all, but only appear on time for tests and exams, preparation for which resembled storming a fortress. Such students "mastered" a semester course of any subject in 4-5 days, which gave rise to a well-known student anecdote: to the question - "in how many days can one master the Chinese language, the question followed - when to take it?"

So for the students-athletes, all subjects in the course of study were a kind of "Chinese literacy". Professor Regitsky, who taught a course on the theory of plasticity of materials, was apparently a “black sheep” at the institute, since he demanded that students report for a semester in their subject, regardless of their sporting achievements.

Here he is the only one and got into Yeltsin's memoirs: “Once Professor Regitsky, on the exam on the theory of plasticity, invited me to answer immediately, without preparation. He says: "Comrade Yeltsin, take a ticket and try it without preparation, you are an athlete with us, why should you prepare?"

And everyone has notebooks and notes on their tables. The fact is that in the theory of plasticity there are some formulas that need to be written on more than one page, it is impossible to remember. It was allowed to use textbooks and notes. The professor decided to experiment with me. We fought with him for a long time.

But he gave me a four all the same, it's a pity. " In fact, the student Yeltsin lives on wear and tear. Daily workouts for six or more hours, long trips to the cities of the country as part of the national volleyball team of the city, 4-5 hours of snatches in the evenings and even late into the night, sooner or later, were to affect his health.

Here are his own recollections of this: “Once my favorite volleyball nearly took me to the grave. At some point, training for six to eight hours and doing things at night (I wanted to have only an "excellent" grade on the record), apparently, I overexerted myself.

And then, as luck would have it, I fell ill with a sore throat, temperature forty, but I still went to training, and my heart could not stand it. Pulse 150, weakness, I was taken to the hospital. They said to lie down and lie down, then there is a chance that in four months, at least, the heart will recover, and otherwise - a heart defect ”.

However, as a patient, Yeltsin turned out to be very undisciplined - a few days later he made a romantic escape from the hospital, descending from the top floor along an impromptu rope woven from hospital sheets. He went to see his parents in Berezniki, where he again began to drag on: periods of seemingly complete recovery were replaced by relapses of weakness, apathy, and in the end he had to stay for a second year.

Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina - biography
Jewish origin

What is the real first name and surname of Naina Yeltsina

So he graduated from the institute only in 1955, a year later than his classmates, with whom he began his studies. Hood without good does not happen, because as a result he ended up on the same course with Anastasia Girina, who in a few years will become his wife - Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina.

Nationality of Naina Yeltsina... How Anastasia Girina later became Naina Yeltsina is a separate question.

Anastasia Girina ( Naina Yeltsina) was born on March 14, 1932 in an Old Believer family, but, despite the Church Slavonic name - Anastasia, in the house her name was Naya, and at school Naina, which was the reason for the biographers of the Yeltsin family to look Jewish roots in the genealogy of Naina Iosifovna Girina (Yeltsin).

According to the testimony of Alexander Korzhakov, the version about Jewish origin of Naina Iosifovna, was actively supported by B. Yeltsin's mother - Klavdiya Vasilievna. Thus, in an interview with the ex-head of the presidential guard to the newspaper Zavtra (1998, No. 43), he, in particular, said: “Yeltsin tells everyone that she is Russian.

Although the name itself is doubtful: in a Russian family where they know "Ruslan and Lyudmila" Pushkin, the girl will never be called that name, because Naina there is a genius of evil, a witch, a witch ... So, Klavdia Vasilievna (Yeltsin's mother) told the journalist , what Naina Iosifovna - Jewish, but " good jewish woman».

When there was a rapprochement between Berezovsky, Smolensky, Gusinsky, Malashenko, Khodorkovsky, Yumashev, Filatov - these are all people of the same nationality - at first I could not understand Tanya (Yeltsin's daughter): how can she listen for hours to the same Boris Abramovich? .. Alas, maternal genes. Native environment ”.

For many years, the future first lady of Russia lived under a double name: according to her passport, Anastasia, and in everyday life, Naina. Even Boris Yeltsin, already being married, did not know about the existence of a double name for his wife. (- >> Naina Iosifovna Yeltsina Wikipedia)

In any case, she argued this in an interview with the press (and how did they formalize the marriage and the birth of their first daughter?). And only in 60, after the birth of her second daughter, she wrote a statement to the registry office and put an end to all this confusion.

Boris Yeltsin writes very little and restrainedly about his future wife in his memoirs: “In the whirlpool of stormy student life, we have formed our own company: six guys and six girls. We lived side by side, in two large rooms, and met together almost every evening.

Of course, someone fell in love with the girls, with me in sports training and after a month he began to play volleyball again. Someone also liked the treatment, but constantly in our big friendly student family, I began to notice more and more one - Naya Girina ...

She was always modest, friendly, kind of soft. It fit very well with my irrepressible nature. Our mutual sympathy grew gradually, but we didn’t show it, and even if we kissed her, as with all girls, on the cheek. And so our platonic relationship continued for a long time, although I internally understood that I fell in love, fell in love deeply and there was no escape here.

Of all the girls in the established student company, Naina Girina was the most inconspicuous and quiet. Biography of Naina Yeltsina trivial ... Growing up in an Old Believer family, where not only drink - a strong word was considered a sin, she amazed her friends with humility and gentleness. For a desperate cheerleader of student feasts with a broken nose, this is a rather strange game.

But, according to A. Khinshtein, everything was decided by a very prosaic background: “Nastya cooked excellently (by student standards). Arriving in the girl's room, Yeltsin invariably swept the pies baked for her off the table, ate homemade borscht and gradually became imbued with sympathy for the sweet, homely young lady.

Their union became a clear confirmation of the thesis that the way to a man's heart lies through the stomach. I would venture to suggest that delicious homemade food symbolized the warmth of the family hearth for the future president.

He himself ate from hand to mouth from childhood, saw tempting pickles only in the book "On tasty and healthy food" and absolutely sincerely esteemed sausages cooked with the addition of butter as the highest delight. "

According to another version, sports brought young people closer together, for example, A.A. Mukhin and P.A. Kozlov: “Naina met Boris Yeltsin, as you know, in the second year of the institute - Boris Nikolaevich was the chairman of the sports bureau of the construction faculty, and Naina was engaged in athletics. In the field of sports, they agreed. "

Apparently both versions have the right to exist, especially since Boris Yeltsin himself confirms this in his other book, The President's Notes: “When we lived for several years in a hostel in neighboring rooms, we did not have“ love ”in the modern sense of the word ...

By the way, at first I liked another girl from their group. Then he fell in love with Naya. But it didn't work out to have a real romance. We lived a kind of overflowing collective life - stormy, active .. Our two rooms - "girls" and "boys" - were called "collective farm", I was elected "chairman", and Naya was "sanguine".

The most accurate one. We had a girl - "treasurer", all the money went into one pot, ate together, joked together, went to the cinema together, arranged "skits", well ... just lived. And, of course, sports, endless volleyball - matches, training, I'm on the court, Naya on the bench, and I see her face, calm and radiant. "

All this is true, but something essential is missing to explain such a long, but reliable path to the heart of Naina. He carefully concealed his sympathy for her both from his friends and from herself. As a true leader in the newly formed "collective farm", he behaved "royally".

All the girls in love with him, and even his pretty Naina, he kept at a fair distance. The king cannot be available to everyone!

He understood and felt that if he took a step towards this or that girlfriend - and that's it, goodbye freedom! He did not want to exchange his strength, which he assumed and expected to invest in his career, on love affairs. He decided that he would not make an exception for Naina either.

Let time pass, it will better show whether they fit together or not. Emotions are a perishable product, which means that you cannot be guided by them when creating a family. There must be something more that holds two people together for life.

It is known that the happiest marriages are those where the spouses have the same value system, coincide interests, when they look in the same direction, see the same picture of the world, speak the same language, understand each other perfectly.

But in order to be convinced of all this, time is needed and therefore Yeltsin keeps Naina at a distance, while continuing to carefully monitor any of her glances, gestures, phrases, actions, - he made a deliberately dismissive look, made it clear that pies are pies, sports - sports, and Naya for him is just one of many beautiful girls who are trying to win his heart. And he is the main prize in this competition.

Conquer who can! The question is, how did the modest, shy Naina manage to bypass all her smart and attractive fellow students who are in love with the beautiful sports leader of the faculty? How did she manage to become the chosen one of the future president of Russia? Until the end of this, she, most likely, does not realize herself. Moreover, she did not apply any special efforts to that.

She was just herself. A. Granatova, who has thoroughly studied the biographical subtleties of the Yeltsin family clan, writes: “It is more likely that Boris saw in Naya maternal solicitude, thriftiness and cleanliness. And yet, the main difference from all her "rivals" was an incredibly patient and hardy character.

Psychological flexibility, willingness to compromise. He was like an icebreaker going ahead, crushing and breaking ice floes on its way, never deviating from the course it had taken. And she is like water in the ocean, also strong and energetic, but capable of flexibly assuming any shape ... They are hard metal and soft water - two elements, two people, very much suited to each other. "

It is said, in our opinion, the key word that determined the fate of these two completely different psychologically personalities, like the poet: They converged - water and stone, Poems and prose, ice and fire ... And the word is "motherly solicitude."

Naina Iosifovna became for Yeltsin for the rest of his life - "wife-mother." Of the three categories of women - future wives ("wife-lover", "wife-mother", "wife-daughter") for such an irrepressible nature as B. Yeltsin, only a "wife-mother", which was Naina Iosifovna, could become the irreplaceable half of the obstinate spouse.

Always being in the shadow of her husband, calm and judicious, unquestioningly enduring his all kinds of breakdowns and antics, she unobtrusively, smoothly helped him to open up. It was Naina Iosifovna who played a decisive role in the formation of Yeltsin as the whole country knows him. Without her, he would simply have drunk himself, of which examples are still ahead.

Yes, and Yeltsin himself understood this well, if in his memoirs he found a few warm words about his half, “condescended,” so to speak: “All subsequent life showed that it was fate. It was exactly that choice - one in a thousand.

Naya accepted me and fell in love with what I was - stubborn, prickly and, of course, it was not so easy for her with me. Well, but about myself I do not say, I fell in love with her, soft, tender. Kind - for life. " Thus, the choice of "wife - mother" as a life companion is not accidental, he also comes from childhood.

The cruelty of the father, to whom the son should have had a natural affection, pushed him to his mother, who was the intercessor for his beloved son during his father's drunken antics. The child slowly but surely developed the "Oedipus complex" - an unnatural love for the mother and a natural responsiveness to women's problems.

For example, at the institute he was a coach of a women's volleyball team, and in leadership positions in Sverdlovsk he always found a common language with women's teams and was personally involved in the improvement of women's cabins. In general, in a female audience, he felt much more confident than in a male audience, on the one hand, and quickly found understanding with them, on the other.

Yeltsin's relations in the family with my father led to the development of other complexes, such as excessive demands on oneself - to be a leader in any environment, on the one hand, and fear of a solitary existence, on the other. While studying and working in all positions, Yeltsin planned his working day in such a way that he would be "in public" for as long as possible.

For example, according to some reports, he excluded Saturday from his days off and always worked to be in sight. Yeltsin was burdened by the obligatory Sunday dinners that Naina Iosifovna arranged, considering the time of rest to be wasted time.

His rest was always collective, about which he enthusiastically writes in "Confessions ..." graduated from the institute, 34 years have passed (the year of writing "Confession" - 1989 - A.K.), and I have never broken this tradition!

And once we even got together with children. 87 people have already come to this meeting. By no means in a sanatorium, but only in a wild way: we walked through the taiga, through the Urals, along the Golden Ring, once bought vouchers for a steamer - and drove along the Kama and Volga.

Another time we lived in Gelendzhik, on the seashore in a tent camp, once we sailed along the Yenisei to Dikson Island. All the time they came up with new options, and they were always interesting and funny. " This character trait allowed some researchers to talk about the ongoing "underdevelopment of Yeltsin, the extreme primitive of feelings and undeveloped intimate side of life."

He compensated for the lack in an intimate sense with “labor maximalism,” which, as a result, led to the formation of a “self-maid-man” complex, a “self-made” person. Such a person sincerely thinks that he can do everything and that there are no such things that he could not understand and do.

Such a person lives in a completely different coordinate system, where there is no place for emotions, and everything should revolve around one person, that is, around him, his beloved. A. Khinshtein did not scrupulously analyze these psychoemotional subtleties of his “hero” and hacked at the worker-peasant way: “It seems that Yeltsin’s women were not interested at all. Or interested in so far as.

God knows, maybe he got more satisfaction from sports and labor exploits than from sex? " And in conclusion, he gives a medical diagnosis: “Sexual disorders, not caused by organic disorders, appear with an actual deviation from age and constitutional norms.

They can be expressed in the form of complete or relative indifference to members of the opposite sex and in the manifestation of obvious sexual infantilism. " Naina Iosifovna walked alongside her tyrant husband all his difficult life path.

Apparently he loved his half in his own way, but he was too busy with his career. Natalya Konstantinovna, a former employee of the Kremlin press service, recalls: “Perhaps all these forty-odd years (in fact, they lived 51 years. - AK) she lacked warmth and care, although what woman would admit it out loud.

Only once broke out in a conversation with the youngest daughter Tatyana about family life: "If my husband kissed me every minute like your Lesha ..." Boris Nikolaevich was rude to her, he could shout,
at the same time he himself admitted this shortcoming: “I am a harsh person, I do not deny it. Naina has a tough time with me. "

Once, Alexander Shokhin observed and subsequently described a characteristic scene. Someone close to Yeltsin fills a glass. Naina Iosifovna tries to stop him: - Bor, well, don't drink! - Shit, woman! Borscht is brought.

Yeltsin takes a salt shaker. Naina Iosifovna warns: - Bor, you try first. Salted borscht. Ignoring her words, she starts shaking the salt shaker ... ”Years will pass, and the first lady of Russia will smile awkwardly, not knowing what to tell people about her bruises on her hands.

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Born on March 14, 1932 in the family of Joseph Alekseevich (1910-1966) and Maria Fedorovna (1910-1994) Girins. The Girins had six children. Her parents were well-to-do Old Believers, in their family not only booze, but also a strong word was considered a sin. At the age of 25, she changed her name from Anastasia to Naina. Because I changed my passport, I could not get used to the official address at the service of “Anastasia Iosifovna”.

In 1955 she graduated from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Ural Polytechnic Institute. SM Kirov (Sverdlovsk) with a degree in civil engineer.
1955-1956 - civil engineer, Orenburg.

1956-1987 - chief engineer of the project, then - head of the group of the institute "Vodokanalproekt", Sverdlovsk, retired at 55.

Since 1987 he has been living in Moscow.

A family

  • Father: Joseph Alekseevich Girin (1910, Titovka, Orenburg province - 1966, Orenburg, RSFSR, USSR, hit by a drunk motorcyclist)
  • Mother: Maria Fedorovna Girina (1910-1994, Yekaterinburg, Russia)
  • Brothers: Leonid Girin (died as a teenager when hit by a train); Anatoly Girin (hit by a car, he was 30 years old); Vladimir Girin; Vitaly Girin; sister Rose.

The family was against her marriage with the builder Yeltsin, but they were not against her marriage with (at that time) pilot Yuri Gagarin, with whom Anastasia Girina met for several months
In 1956 she married Boris Yeltsin, got engaged in the house of a collective farmer in the Upper Iset.

  • Elena Okulova (b. 1957) first husband Alexey Fefelov (her former classmate), second husband Valery Okulov
  • Tatyana Yumasheva (b. 1960)
    • Elena's children: Ekaterina Okulova (Fefelova) (October 10, 1979) and Maria Zhilenkova-Okulova (1983), Dmitry and Ivan Okulov
    • Tatiana's children: Boris Yeltsin (1981); Gleb Dyachenko (August 30, 1995); Maria Yumasheva (2003)

great grandchildren

  • Sasha Sorokin (July 1999) (son of the granddaughter of Ekaterina Okulova (Fefelova) and Alexander Sorokin (her former classmate)))
  • Misha (2005), Fedor (2006) (children of the granddaughter of Maria Zhilenkova-Okulova and her husband, businessman Mikhail Zhilenkov).

Awards

  • In 1999 she was awarded the Oliver international prize - For the Humanism of the Heart. The prize is awarded by the Frank Foundation for International Child Assistance.
  • She was awarded the Olympia National Prize in the Honor and Dignity category. This is the only prize in Russia, which recognizes the achievements of outstanding women of the day in politics, business, science, art and culture.

In pursuit of information about the Kremlin's celebration of Naina Yeltsina on the occasion of her birthday.

Without a doubt, she is a very difficult lady and, in my opinion, worthy of respect.
Perhaps even she is one of those women who, on the one hand, choose the most promising and ambitious men, and on the other, create the most comfortable conditions for a career for them.

And the fact that she refused Yuri Gagarin says something.

I immediately remembered a historical anecdote about how the Clinton couple at a gas station ran into Hillary's former boyfriend, who worked there as a gas station.
- I wonder who you would be if you married him? - Beal mocked.
“I would be the president’s wife,” Hilary replied seriously.

At the same time, I would like to note a few more interesting observations.
1) As an adult, Girina changed her name from Anastasia to Naina. I don’t know who has any associations, but I have with the witch Naina Kievnaya from Ruslan and Lyudmila, who intrigued the main characters.
2) Naina chose her husband to match. A guy. Rude and not strong smart, but with charisma. And she was ready to endure his rudeness and fornication, as a matter of course, moving him upstairs in the ass. Hence the beatings, etc. And the ax under the pillow is generally atas! The ward of the mind.
3) I would especially note the information of Korzhakov about the prohibition of Naina to report about the shelling of the White House. Well done. Knows what to hide and why.

Now a little more detail.

Naina Girina was born in the village of Titovka, Orenburg region of Russia. Her parents were wealthy Old Believers. Together with Yeltsin, she studied at the Ural Polytechnic. Their dorm rooms were close by. Naina cooked well, and Yeltsin often visited her for pies with cabbage.

We met for five years. Boris was assigned to Verkhnaya Iseta. Before leaving, he invited me to the cinema. In the lobby of the cinema, we kissed for the first time, - she recalls.

The family was against her marriage to Yeltsin. Naina met with Yuri Gagarin for several months.

You need to marry Gagarin. And you are sitting with your builder, - her mother told her.

But Naina did not like Gagarin.

Yura has a soft character, - she said.

Yeltsin's father is a builder; he was twice imprisoned for anti-Soviet agitation. He drank, beat his wife. Her parents did not come to her daughter's wedding. The young got engaged in the house of a collective farmer in the Upper Iset.

In the early 1960s, Boris Yeltsin from an engineer became the secretary of the Sverdlovsk regional party committee.

When his daughter Elena was born, he burst into tears with anger, because he wanted a son, - recalls Naina Iosifovna. - When the second child was conceived, he put an ax and a cap under the pillow. Hoped that a boy would be born.

But this time, too, a girl, Tatiana, was born. Yeltsin drank for three days and asked his wife not to give birth again.

Once we were driving from a party, - recalls the former driver Yeltsinikh. - Naina Iosifovna said: "Boris, why did you cuddle so close to that blonde?" He stopped the Volga in the middle of the road. He pushed her out, and she walked to Sverdlovsk. This has happened more than once.

In 1985, Boris Yeltsin was appointed secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and then - first secretary of the Moscow city committee. Raisa Gorbacheva, wife of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, every Thursday hosted dinner parties for the wives of top officials. Old party members say that Naina Yeltsina appeared in this society with bruises.

At the 1987 CPSU plenum, Yeltsin criticized Mikhail Gorbachev. He was demoted to deputy chairman of the State Construction Committee. After that, he was admitted to the hospital with a hypertensive crisis. There, he allegedly tried to stab himself with scissors - he fell on the edge. On July 2, 1991, he became president of Russia. The wife straightened the perm she had worn for 20 years and began to dress in the style of Coco Chanel.

In America, Yeltsin once visited an ordinary American family. I was going to bake pies there, - recalls journalist Sergei Parkhomenko. - He went up to the house and saw a swing. He sat on them, and sat next to his wife. However, he turned unsuccessfully, and she sat on his arm. He shouted at his wife: "Cow!"

When the child was conceived, he put an ax and a cap under the pillow

Naina Yeltsina assures that she did not speak with her husband about politics. However, Korzhakov claims that the first lady interfered in state affairs. In 1993, Naina Yeltsina banned television coverage of the shooting of the White House.

Naina Yeltsina was born on March 14, 1932 in the village of Titovka, Orenburg region. After graduating from school, she entered the Ural Federal University. Five years later, she received a diploma with a degree in Civil Engineer. Then she worked for one year as a civil engineer in Orenburg. From 1956 to 1985 she held the position of chief engineer of the project, later became the head of the group of the institute in Sverdlovsk "Vodokanalproekt".

The girl met her future husband Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin while studying at the institute. They got married in 1956. The young family settled in Yekaterinburg. Almost thirty years later, the family moved to live in Moscow. In marriage, two daughters were born: Elena and Tatiana.

After Boris Yeltsin was elected the first president of the Russian Federation in 1991 by popular vote, Naina Iosifovna became the "first lady". The woman accompanied her spouse on foreign official visits, participated in various protocol events, provided charitable trusteeship for children's and school institutions, and hospitals.

In 1999, Naina Yeltsina was awarded the Oliver International Prize in the nomination “For Humanism of the Heart”, and was awarded the Olympia Prize for Honor and Dignity. This is the only Russian award that recognizes the achievements of modern women taking part in business, politics, art, culture and science.

Naina Iosifovna was widowed on April 23, 2007. Her husband, Boris Nikolayevich, died at the age of 77 due to cardiac arrest. The funeral took place at the Novodevichy cemetery. Sergei Sobyanin, Dmitry Medvedev, Vladimir Putin and heads of foreign states came to say goodbye to his comrade-in-arms. They lived together for a little over fifty years.

In 2008, the former first lady joined the Board of Trustees of the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Center. He devotes a lot of time to his family: children and grandchildren, and also takes an active part in the activities of the Foundation of the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin.

In the fall of 2015, the Yeltsin Presidential Center opened in Yekaterinburg, where there is a museum with the personal belongings of the former President of Russia. For example, a statement of resignation from the party, a pen with which he signed decrees, and a diploma of graduation.

In the summer of 2017, a series of presentations of Naina Yeltsina's memoirs took place. The book entitled "Personal Life" was written for five years. This period is explained by the desire of the author to create a work with a description of family, household details without a touch of politics.

A monument to Boris Yeltsin was unveiled at the Alley of Rulers in Moscow on April 23, 2018 under Naina Yeltsina. The author of the bust was Zurab Tsereteli.

Naina Yeltsina's awards

Order of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine (March 14, 2017) - for her great contribution to the implementation of socially significant humanitarian programs and active participation in charitable activities

In 1999 she was awarded the Oliver International Prize - For the Humanism of the Heart. The prize is awarded by the Frank Foundation for International Child Assistance

In 2005 she was awarded the Olympia National Prize in the Honor and Dignity nomination. This is the only prize in Russia, which recognizes the achievements of outstanding contemporaries in politics, business, science, art and culture.