Katerina Tikhonova

Katerina Tikhonova (Russian: Катерина Тихонова, IPA: [kətʲɪˈrʲinə ˈtʲixənəvə], née Yekaterina Vladimirovna Putina, Екатерина Владимировна Путина; born 31 August 1986)[1] is a Russian acrobatic dancer, and director of two initiatives at Moscow State University: the National Intellectual Development Foundation (NIDF) and the National Intellectual Reserve Centre (NIRC).[2] She is the second daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin.[2][3][4]

In this Eastern Slavic name, the patronymic is Vladimirovna and the family name is Putina.
Katerina Tikhonova
Born
Yekaterina Vladimirovna Putina

(1986-08-31) 31 August 1986
Dresden, East Germany
CitizenshipRussian
Alma materSaint Petersburg State University
Moscow State University
OccupationAcrobatic dancer
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2013; div. 2018)​
Parent(s)Vladimir Putin
Lyudmila Putina
RelativesMaria Vorontsova (sister)

Biography

Tikhonova was born in Dresden, East Germany, the younger of two daughters of Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Putina (née Shkrebneva). She attended German School Moscow.[5] She dropped the Putin surname and took the matronymic name of her maternal grandmother,[6] Yekaterina Tikhonovna Shkrebneva,[7] as her surname.[2] Tikhonova is the director of Innopraktika, a $1.7 billion development project to create a science center at Moscow State University.[1][2] Innopraktika is competing with the Skolkovo Innovation Center and is referred to by Stanislav Belkovsky as being the "anti-Skolkovo".[6]

As an acrobatic rock'n'roll dancer, she and partner Ivan Klimov came in fifth place at a 2013 world championship event in Switzerland.[8]

In 2013, Tikhonova married Kirill Shamalov,[4][9] the son of Nikolay Shamalov a co-owner of Rossiya Bank.[2] He is also vice-president of Sibur Holding, which is a Russian gas processing and petrochemicals company headquartered in Moscow. The Russian government holds 38% of the shares of the gas company. At the time, the couple was estimated to hold assets worth around $2 billion.[2] In January 2018, it was reported that Tikhonova and Shamalov had separated.[10]

She majored in Asian studies at Saint Petersburg State University.[11] Tikhonova graduated from Moscow State University with a specialization in Japan.[12] She has a master's degree in physics and mathematics.[13] In February 2020, Innopraktika announced that Tikhonova was appointed head of a new artificial intelligence institute at Moscow State University.[13]

References
  1. Bershidsky, Leonid (29 January 2015). "Putin Family Values". Bloomberg. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  2. Grey, Stephen; Kuzmin, Andrey; Piper, Elizabeth (10 November 2015). "Putin's daughter, a young billionaire and the president's friends". Reuters. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  3. Kotova, Yulia (4 April 2016). "Глава ВТБ назвал "бредом" сообщения о связи Путина с сетью офшоров" [Head of VTB called it "delirium" the announcement about the Putin's connection with off-shore networks] (in Russian). RBC News. Archived from the original on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  4. Stubbs, Jack; Kuzmin, Andrey; Grey, Stephen; Anin, Roman (17 December 2015). "The man who married Putin's daughter and then made a fortune". Reuters. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
  5. "DECIPHERING PUTIN AS HIS REGIME DAWNS." Philadelphia Inquirer. 19 March 2000. A01 National. Retrieved on 31 October 2011. "The German influence has been long-lasting. Putin speaks the language fluently, and his daughters, 13 and 14 years old, attend a German school in Moscow."
  6. Reznik, Irina; Pismennaya, Evgenia; Arkhipov, Ilya (30 January 2015). "Putin's Dancing Daughter Said to Run Fund Backed by Dad's Allies". Bloomberg. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  7. Grey, Stephen; Kuzmin, rey; Reuters, Elizabeth Piper for (11 November 2015). "Russia's new princelings: who is Putin's rock'n'roll daughter?". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 March 2018.
  8. Grey, Stephen; Kuzmin, Andrey; Piper, Elizabeth (10 November 2015). "Putin's daughter, a young billionaire and the president's friends". Reuters. Retrieved 2 March 2020. In 2013, she and her dancing partner came fifth in a world championship event in Switzerland.
  9. Harding, Luke (3 April 2016). "Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin". The Guardian. London.
  10. Reznik, Irina; Arkhipov, Ilya; Sazonov, Alexander (26 January 2018). "Putin Family Split Offers Peek at Secret Dealings of Russia Inc". Bloomberg. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  11. Herszenhorn, David M. (5 May 2012). "In the Spotlight of Power, Putin Keeps His Private Life Veiled in Shadows". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 March 2020. Both daughters attended German-language schools and St. Petersburg State University, where Maria studied biology and Yekaterina majored in Asian Studies.
  12. Roman Anin; Denis Dmitriev; Olesya Shmagun; Roman Shleynov; Dmitry Velikovski; Sonya Savina; Irina Dolinina; Alesya Marokhovskaya (7 December 2020). "Love, Offshores, and Administrative Resources: How Marrying Putin's Daughter Gave Kirill Shamalov a World of Opportunity". Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. Retrieved 9 December 2020. The BBC's Russian service quoted Viktor Sadovnichy, the rector of Moscow State University, as saying that Tikhonova had graduated from its Institute of Asian and African Countries with a specialization in Japan.
  13. "Putin's youngest daughter to run artificial intelligence institute". Reuters. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
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