Today her name is known all over the world. In 2005, she was one of the three most influential women on the planet. Fate either elevated her above millions or threw her into jail. Surely many did not succeed in understanding who Yulia Tymoshenko is? Her biography is so rich that you can write more than one novel on it.
Childhood
The most famous Ukrainian woman was born on November 27, 1960 in the city of Dnepropetrovsk. Therefore, when asked about how old Yulia Tymoshenko is, one can say with confidence: "She is 54 years old." Yulia Vladimirovna recalls that her childhood was not cloudless, since her father, Vladimir Grigyan, left the family very early. Mom - Lyudmila Telegin - from two years old raised her daughter alone. They lived in a small three-room apartment in a block five-story building. In addition, Lyudmila took care of her sick mother, and also worked until late as a dispatcher in a city taxi fleet. Naturally, their incomplete family had a hard time. They tried to save on everything, the girl grew up in a modest setting.
School years
Almost the entire school life of Julia took place in secondary school No. 37 of Dnepropetrovsk. She studied well, quickly learned the material she had learned, and had no difficulties in mathematics. Even from school, Yulia Tymoshenko stood out for her strong character. She never played with dolls, she was friends only with boys. The last two classes she had to get knowledge in another school - No. 75. All her student memories are associated with this particular institution. In adolescence, Julia was seriously interested in gymnastics, she was even going to continue her sports career.
What is her nationality?
Many are surprised by the fact that as a girl, Yulia Tymoshenko bore the name Grigyan. This raises a number of questions. The ending “yang” sometimes gives some reason to think about whether Yulia Tymoshenko is an Armenian. However, initially the paternal ancestors of the woman bore the surname Gigaryanis, and by nationality were Latvians. Until graduation, Julia bore the name of her father. Having become an adult, she took her mother's name - Telegin. By the way, her mother is a purebred Ukrainian.
Student years
After school, Julia Telegin submits documents to the Mining Institute of Dnepropetrovsk. However, a few days before the exams, she changes her mind and enters the faculty of economics at Dnepropetrovsk State University with a degree in economic cybernetics. Studying is easy for her, she is happy to learn the basics of economics. The teachers are surprised at the strong character and clear mind of the young beauty.
New stage. Yulia Tymoshenko: biography and personal life
In the first year, Julia met with Alexander Tymoshenko - her future spouse, who was a year younger than her. An affair began between the young people, and by the end of the first year, Julia married Alexander, and a year later they had a daughter. Yulia Tymoshenko was only nineteen years old, and her young father was eighteen. Young parents called the girl Eugenia. After giving birth, the young mother for a while all went into the care of her baby, rarely met with friends. However, Julia and Alexander did not have those problems that are encountered in young spouses who started a family at such a young age. Sasha's father was an influential person in Dnepropetrovsk. He helped a young family.
Mastering the profession
Despite all the worries about her husband and young daughter, Julia Vladimirovna was still able in 1984 to graduate with honors. She deservedly received a red diploma. Then she was sent to work at the Lenin Dnepropetrovsk Engineering Plant as an economist, where she worked until 1990. This concludes the Soviet period in the life of the iron lady. Yulia Tymoshenko, whose biography is full of difficult moments, enters the path of developing big business and the political arena.
The end of the Soviet period
They say that during the reign of Gorbachev, Julia opened her own cooperative, and then, after the collapse of the USSR, in the blink of an eye she moved from big business to big business. Yulia Vladimirovna Tymoshenko does not like to talk about this stage of her life, and there are almost no reliable information in the press. However, there are facts proving that the clan was headed by Gennady Timoshenko (Alexander’s father) and his daughter-in-law Julia — two very strong and strong-willed people.
Yulia Tymoshenko and her father-in-law were initially engaged in the sale and distribution of large batches of video cassettes with foreign films, then they organized concerts of rock groups that gathered huge halls. However, Yulia all this seemed frivolous and unprofitable. She dreamed of a larger business - trade and production of petroleum products.
The beginning of a new period
After the collapse of the USSR and the proclamation of an independent republic, Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko was able to carry out her plan. Already in 1991 she became the CEO of Ukrainian Gasoline Corporation (CUB). A few years later, KUB began to cooperate with the UK and turned into a Ukrainian-British joint industrial and financial corporation, which became known as the "Unified Energy Systems of Ukraine". The company's turnover amounted to 11 billion dollars a year. Soon, the corporation had a monopoly on the sale of natural gas of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, and Yulia Tymoshenko became president of this company. By 1997, she began to control a quarter of the entire economy of Ukraine.
Fame and success
By the end of the 90s, Tymoshenko was gaining popularity not only in Ukraine, but also abroad. Many see her as their favorite and savior. Programs about her are filmed, her photographs adorn the covers of magazines, a collection of fashionable clothes is dedicated to her, even Bobrinetsk football club Novator is renamed Julia Novator.
Lady Yu and politics
At the end of 1996, a star called Yulia Tymoshenko lit up in the Ukrainian political horizon. The biography of the young politician smoothly went to the top. She nominates herself as a candidate for deputy of the Kirovograd region. Julia was able to gain 92%. At the beginning of 1997, she became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada and immediately joined the Constitutional Center faction.
Soon she became one of the leaders of the Gromada party. Yulia Tymoshenko as soon as possible was able to raise the rating of this party so high that none of the previous leaders even dared to dream about it. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church sided with Julia and awarded her the Order of St. Barbara the Great Martyr. A year later, Lady Yu is already chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Financial Affairs (budget). The project "One Hundred Weeks to a Dignified Life" belongs to this period of its activity. In 1998, Tymoshenko was re-elected and continues to lead the work of the budget committee. However, a year later she submits an application for resignation from this post, and after the opening of a new faction, the Fatherland, Tymoshenko, along with other "masses", leaves under her aegis.
One step to the premiere
In 1999, Viktor Yushchenko proposed Yulia Tymoshenko to become deputy prime minister for fuel and energy issues. Naturally, she did not miss this chance.
Captivity
Criminal proceedings have been brought against Yulia Tymoshenko more than once. The reasons were the facts of smuggling, embezzlement of state property, etc. A more serious charge hung over her in 2001, when the Prosecutor General opened two cases against her at once. At the same time, she was removed from the post of deputy prime minister, in February 2001 she was arrested. She was placed in the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center of the city of Kiev, but literally two weeks later Yulia Tymoshenko was free. However, this woman did not go to her home after prison, but to the Medicom clinic. Two weeks of imprisonment in a pre-trial detention center undermined her health, so I had to go to the clinic to treat a stomach ulcer. However, freedom did not last long. Three days later, a convoy appeared in front of her ward, turning the hospital ward into a prison cell. But in April of that year, the arrest order was canceled. Two years later, a criminal case was again brought against Julia.
Y. Tymoshenko and the National Salvation Fund (FTS)
In February 2001, the efforts of Yulia Tymoshenko created the National Salvation Fund (FNS). It was a public association whose members aimed to remove President Leonid Kuchma from office. Then, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc was created, which won 20 seats in the Verkhovna Rada in the parliamentary elections. In 2002, Yulia and some opposition leaders led the action "Ukraine without Kuchma", protesting against the power of the current president.
Orange Revolution
Two years later, two opposition blocs - Tymoshenko and Yushchenko - come together and form the coalition "Strength of the People", which should support Yushchenko’s candidacy in the presidential election. Tymoshenko herself is elected by majority vote in the Verkhovna Rada the head of the "orange" government. In 2005, according to the Forbes magazine rating, Yulia Tymoshenko entered the top ten most influential ladies in the world, and she was third in this list. However, in the same year, she resigned as prime minister. From 2007 to 2010, Y. Tymoshenko Bloc strengthens its position in the Rada, and in 2010 it receives more than 45% of the vote in the presidential election.
Captivity Again
In 2010, Yulia Tymoshenko was charged with a number of criminal offenses. In August 2011, she was arrested. She was sentenced to 7 years. The prisoner was transferred from the Kiev pre-trial detention center to the hospital for health reasons, but she was under strict guard. In 2013, the European Court ruled that the detention of Yulia Tymoshenko is lawless and that she has the right to demand compensation for non-pecuniary damage.
Yulia Tymoshenko today
Despite the fact that Yu.V. Tymoshenko was under arrest at the end of 2012, the Batkivshchyna party (united opposition) nominated her as a single candidate for the presidency of Ukraine during the 2015 elections. In view of the current situation, the elections have already been postponed to May 25, 2014, where it will also be one of the main candidates. By the way, the daughter of Yulia Tymoshenko today is engaged in attracting foreign investment in Ukraine.