This article will throw more light on the wife of Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko, a Belarusian politician, Galina Lukashenko.
Lukashenko was born on 30 August 1954 in the settlement of Kopys in the Vitebsk Oblast of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Starting with an interview given in 2009 Lukashenko has said that his actual birthday is 31 August, the same as his son’s Nikolai’s. This caused some confusion as all official sources had said 30 August 1954 up until then. An explanation was later given that his mother had entered the hospital on the 30th in labor but had not given birth until after midnight.
His maternal grandfather, Trokhym Ivanovich Lukashenko, had been born in the Sumy Oblast of Ukraine near Shostka (today a village of Sobycheve). Lukashenko grew up without a father in his childhood, leading him to be taunted by his schoolmates for having an unmarried mother.
Due to this, the origin of his patronymic Grigorevich is unknown and there are various rumors about who Lukashenko’s father might have been with the most popular version being that he was a Roma passing through the region. His mother, Ekaterina Trofimovna Lukashenko (1924–2015), gave birth to another son, Alexander’s older brother who died. Ekaterina worked unskilled jobs on a railway, at a construction site, at a flax factory in Orsha, and finally as a milkmaid in Alexandria, a small village in the east of Belarus, close to the Russian border.
Lukashenko went to Alexandria secondary school. He graduated from the Mogilev Pedagogical Institute (now Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University) in 1975, after 4 years studying there and the Belarusian Agricultural Academy in Horki in 1985.
He served in the Soviet Border Troops from 1975 to 1977, where he was an instructor of the political department of military unit No. 2187 of the Western Frontier District in Brest and in the Soviet Army from 1980 to 1982.
In 1979, he joined the ranks of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of Byelorussia. After leaving the military, he became the deputy chairman of a collective farm in 1982, and in 1985, he was promoted to the post of director of the Gorodets state farm and construction materials plant in the Shklow district.
He became the president of Belarus since the establishment of the office on 20 July 1994, making him the longest-sitting European president.
Who is the wife of Alexander Lukashenko?
Lukashenko married Galina Zhelnerovich, his high school sweetheart, in 1975. Later that year, his oldest son, Viktor, was born. Their second son, Dmitry, was born in 1980. Galina lives separately in a house in the village of Shklow. Though they are still legally married, Galina Lukashenko has been estranged from her husband since shortly after he became president.
She was born on 1 January 1955 in the family of Rodion Georgievich Zhelnerovich (1928-1983) from Brest and Elena Fedorovna Zhelnerovich (1929-2019) from Slutsk. She met Alexander Lukashenko while still in high school in the village of Ryzhkovichi, and married him in 1975, upon graduation from the Mogilev State Pedagogical Institute (now Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University).
She did not move with her husband to Minsk at the beginning of his presidential career, instead living on Zemlyanichnaya Street in Shklow, where she has since lived. She does not accompany her husband at public events and rarely sees him. One of the earlier moments when the couple was seen together was the year Lukashenko was elected when he was on a state visit to Israel.
On 15 March 2022, Galina Lukashenka was added to the US Treasury sanctions list – designated under Executive Order 13405 for “being a senior-level official who is responsible for or has engaged in public corruption related to Belarus”. On 25 March 2022, she was sanctioned by Australia. Later that year, Galina was blacklisted by New Zealand and Ukraine.
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