Naina Yeltsina
Anastasia "Naina" Iosifovna Yeltsina (, , ; born 14 March 1932) is the widow of the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin. Biography. 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. In 1956, she married Boris Yeltsin, whom she met at the institute, and has lived in Moscow since 1985. They have two daughters, Yelena and Tatyana, born in 1957 and 1960, respectively. 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. In 2017, Naina Yeltsina presented her personal life memoir book in the Yeltsin Center and then in Moscow.