Katerina Tikhonova

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In this Eastern Slavic naming convention, the patronymic is Vladimirovna and the family name is Putina.
Katerina Tikhonova
Born
Yekaterina Vladimirovna Putina

(1986-08-31) 31 August 1986 (age 35)
Dresden, East Germany
CitizenshipRussian
Alma mater
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2013; div. 2018)​
Parent(s)
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 scientist, manager, and former acrobatic dancer. She is the second daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin.[2][3][4]

Katerina Tikhonova heads the Innopraktika company, which unites two initiatives of Moscow State University: the National Intellectual Development Foundation (NIDF) and the National Intellectual Reserve Centre (NIRC).[2] Tikhonova is also Deputy Director of the Institute for Mathematical Research of Complex Systems at Moscow State University.[5] She has a PhD in Physics and Mathematics.

Biography[]

Tikhonova was born in Dresden, East Germany, the younger of two daughters of Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Putina (née Shkrebneva). The family moved to Saint Petersburg in the spring of 1991. Later, during violent gang wars involving the Tambov Gang while it was taking control of St. Petersburg's energy trade, she and her sister Maria were sent by their father, who feared for their safety, to Germany where their legal guardian was former Stasi Matthias Warnig, who had worked with their father in Dresden as part of a KGB cell and established the Dresdner Bank branch in St Petersburg.[6] Later, she attended German School Moscow.[7] She dropped the Putin surname and took the matronymic name of her maternal grandmother,[8] Yekaterina Tikhonovna Shkrebneva,[9] as her surname.[2]

After taking entrance exams along with Maria in July 2005, she began her university studies at Saint Petersburg State University where its rector Lyudmila Verbitskaya is a close friend of her father.[10] Although she was very interested in Chinese studies, she studied Japanese history, majoring in Asian studies under the university's dean, Yevgeny Zelenev; she graduated in June 2009.[11][12][13] Tikhonova graduated from Moscow State University with a specialization in Japan.[14] She has a master's degree in physics and mathematics.[15]

In the mid-2010s, Tikhonova was fond of acrobatic rock'n'roll - a rare, non-Olympic sport, in the world ranking of which there are only about two hundred people. She and partner Ivan Klimov came in fifth place at a 2013 world championship event in Switzerland.[16] In 2014, at the Russian Championship, the pair took second place.[17] In the World Federation, Tikhonova at one time held the post of Vice President for Expansion & Marketing.[18] Then acrobatic rock and roll began to gain popularity in Russia. In 2016-2019, in the Moscow region, at the sports school where Tikhonova studied, an acrobatic rock and roll center was built for 2 billion rubles.[17][19]

In 2013, Tikhonova married Kirill Shamalov,[4][20] 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.[21]

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".[8] In February 2020, Innopraktika announced that Tikhonova was appointed head of a new artificial intelligence institute at Moscow State University.[15]

In May 2019 Tikhonova defended her dissertation and received a degree in physics and mathematics. The scientific work was called "Mathematical problems of correcting the activity of vestibular mechanoreceptors". This was preceded by a series of scientific publications in collaboration with well-known scientists.[22][23] The rector of the Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichiy was the scientific supervisor.[24][25][26]

In December 2019, Katerina Tikhonova became a member of the Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Mass Sports under the Government of the Russian Federation.[27] [28] [29]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Bershidsky, Leonid (29 January 2015). "Putin Family Values". Bloomberg. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  2. ^ Jump up to: 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. ^ "EXCLUSIVE-Dance colleague identifies Putin's younger daughter". Reuters. 28 November 2017.
  4. ^ Jump up to: 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. ^ "МГУ: Институт математических исследований сложных систем". msu.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  6. ^ Belton 2020, pp. 101-102, 521-522.
  7. ^ "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."
  8. ^ Jump up to: 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.
  9. ^ 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.
  10. ^ Пахмутова, Наталья (Pakhmutova, Natalia) (3 August 2005). "Мария и Екатерина поступили в Петербургский госуниверситет" [Maria and Ekaterina entered the St. Petersburg State University]. Жизнь (Life) (in Russian). Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  11. ^ "Тайная жизнь дочерей Путина" [Secret life of Putin's daughters]. Журналистское агентство Free Lance Bureau (FLB) (Free Lance Bureau) (in Russian). 13 January 2011. Archived from the original on 15 January 2011. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  12. ^ 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.
  13. ^ "Список. выпускников Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета" [List. graduates of St. Petersburg state university]. St. Petersburg State University (spbu.ru) (in Russian). 15 June 2009. Archived from the original on 3 June 2010. Retrieved 5 March 2021. "See the Восточный (Oriental studies) section under Бакалавры (Bachelors) where she is listed as "Путина Катерина Владимировна" (Putina Katerina Vladimirovna). The list was published as № 11 (3797), 29 июня 2009 года (29 June 2009).
  14. ^ 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.
  15. ^ Jump up to: a b "Putin's youngest daughter to run artificial intelligence institute". Reuters. 28 February 2020. Retrieved 29 February 2020.
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b "На базе спортшколы Катерины Тихоновой построят центр рок-н-ролла с вертолетной площадкой" (in Russian). TV Rain. 27 October 2016.
  18. ^ "Presidium WRRC". wrrc.org. Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  19. ^ "Спорткомплекс «Жаворонки»: акробатический рок-н-ролл и площадки для паркура". stroi.mos.ru (in Russian). 23 April 2012.
  20. ^ Harding, Luke (3 April 2016). "Revealed: the $2bn offshore trail that leads to Vladimir Putin". The Guardian. London.
  21. ^ 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.
  22. ^ "Tikhonova, Katerina V." zbmath.org. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  23. ^ "Тихонова Катерина Владимировна". mathnet.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  24. ^ "Катерина Тихонова стала кандидатом наук" (in Russian). Forbes Russia. 24 May 2019.
  25. ^ "Математические задачи коррекции активности вестибулярных механорецепторов" (in Russian). dissercat.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  26. ^ ""Таких ученых не так много". Как предполагаемая дочь Путина защищала диссертацию в МГУ" (in Russian). BBC Russian. 24 May 2019.
  27. ^ "Состав Совета при Правительстве Российской Федерации по развитию физической культуры и массового спорта в редакции распоряжения от 23 декабря 2019 года №3147-р" (in Russian). government.ru. 23 December 2019.
  28. ^ "Предполагаемая дочь Путина Катерина Тихонова вошла в совет по физкультуре и спорту при правительстве. Вместе с дочерью Шойгу" (in Russian). Meduza. 26 December 2019.
  29. ^ "Katerina Tikhonova joined Ksenia Shoigu in the government sports council". rusletter.com. 27 December 2019.

Further reading[]

  • Belton, Catherine (23 June 2020). Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and Then Took on the West. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. ISBN 978-0374238711.
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