Early Life and Career
Yulia Tymoshenko (born Grigyan) was born 27 November 1960, in Dnipropetrovsk, Soviet Ukraine (then part of the Soviet Union). Her mother, Ludmila Nikolaevna Telegina (née Nelepova), was born 11 August 1937, in Dnipropetrovsk. Her father, Vladimir Abramovich Grigyan, was born 3 December 1937 in Dnipropetrovsk and was, according to his Soviet passport, Latvian. Vladimir left the family when Yulia was three years old. Tymoshenko took the surname of her mother, "Telegina", before graduating from high school in 1977. In 1979, Yulia married Oleksandr Tymoshenko, son of a mid-level Soviet official. In 1980 their daughter Yevhenia (Eugenia) was born.
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