Tatyana Borisovna Yumasheva (; formerly Dyachenko (Дьяченко); (Ельцина); born 17 January 1960) is the younger daughter of former Russian president

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1961 to ...

and

Naina Yeltsina Anastasia Iosifovna "Naina" Yeltsina (; []; born 14 March 1932) is the widow of the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin. She was the First Lady of Russia during her husband's presidency (1991–1999). Early life and education Naina Yelts ...

. Since 2009, Yumasheva has been a citizen of

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Early life and education

She graduated from

MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics MSU Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics (CMC) (), founded in 1970 by Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Andrey Tikhonov, is a part of Moscow State University. Education CMC is a Russian research and training center in the fields of ...

in 1983. She then worked at the

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Design Bureau and later at

Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center The Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center (''Государственный космический научно-производственный центр (ГКНПЦ) имени М. В. Хру́ничева'' in Russian) is ...

until 1994.

Career

Yeltsin made her his personal advisor in 1996 when his re-election campaign was faltering. A memoir written by Yeltsin, as reported by ''The New York Times'', credited her with advising against "banning Communist Party, dissolving Parliament and postponing presidential elections" in 1996. She was particularly influential as Yeltsin recovered from heart surgery in late 1996. She became the keystone in a small group of advisors known as "The Family", although the others ( Alexander Voloshin and Valentin Yumashev) were not Yeltsin relatives. Boris Berezovsky and other oligarchs were often included in the group as well. In 2000, her name came up during a corruption investigation, but no charges were brought. She remained on the staff of Yeltsin's hand-picked successor

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, and was a key adviser to him during his 2000 election campaign, but Putin dismissed her later that year. She is portrayed in the 2003 satirical comedy '' Spinning Boris'', based on the real experiences of U.S. political consultants in the 1996 campaign. She and Yumashev provided editorial assistance in preparing the last volume of her father's memoirs, ''Midnight Diaries''.

Personal life

In 1980, Yeltsina married fellow

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student, Vilen Ayratovich Khairullin. In 1981, they had a son. They divorced in 1982. In 1987, she married Leonid Yuryevich Dyachenko (known as Alexei), a businessman, designer from Salyut Design Bureau, billionaire, and executive director of Urals Energy, a company under investigation by the Putin government as of 2008. In 1995, they had a son before divorcing in 2001. In 2001, Tatyana married her fellow presidential adviser Valentin Yumashev, and flew to

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to have a baby, daughter. Until 2018, Yumashev was the father-in-law of oligarch

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. Tatyana is a close friend of another multi-billionaire,

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. Along with her husband and their daughter, she has been a citizen of

since 2009.RBK: Yeltsin's daughter T.Yumasheva became a citizen of Austria
''top.rbc.ru'' On 25 February 2022, Yumasheva condemned the

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Awards

* Commendation of the President of the Russian Federation for active participation in the organization of the presidential election campaign (1996)

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