Liudmyla Mykolaivna Kuchma^[a] (née Talalaieva^[b]; born 19 June 1940) is the wife of second Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma and a former First Lady of Ukraine.^[1] She had previously worked as a design engineer.

Liudmyla Kuchma was born in Udmurtia, and studied at a music school located in the house-museum of Pyotr Tchaikovsky. She graduated from mechanical college.^{[citation needed]}

For thirty years, she worked as an engineer in the design office of a production association in Dnipropetrovsk.

In 1967, she married Leonid Kuchma, the president of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005. Her daughter Olena was born in 1970.^[2]

In 1998, Kuchma was awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.^[3] and Order of Princess Olga First Class (2010).^[4] Since 1996, she has been Honorary President of the National Fund for Social Protection of Mother and Child.^{[citation needed]}

Since 12 May 2004, she has been Special Ambassador of UNESCO to help young talents.^[5]

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