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Katerina Tikhonova
Born
Yekaterina Vladimirovna Putina

(1986-08-31) 31 August 1986 (age 38)
CitizenshipRussian
Alma materSaint Petersburg State University
Moscow State University
OccupationAcrobatic dancer
Spouse
(m. 2013; div. 2018)
Parent(s)Vladimir Putin
Lyudmila Putina
RelativesMaria Vorontsova (sister)

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]

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. ^ a b Bershidsky, Leonid (29 January 2015). "Putin Family Values". Bloomberg. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  2. ^ a b c d e f 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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b 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. {{cite web}}: |last3= has generic name (help)
  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. ^ a b "Putin's youngest daughter to run artificial intelligence institute". Reuters. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.