Khrushcheva, Nina Petrovna

Nina Kukharchuk was born into a Ruthenian ( Ukrainian ) family in the village of Vasilev in the Kholmshchyna , which was then part of the Russian Empire, now - Tomaszow County (Lublin Voivodeship) . Her father, Pyotr Vasilyevich (1865-1931), was an ordinary peasant . Mother - Ekaterina Grigoryevna Bondarchuk (1862-1943) - also came from a simple peasant family ^[2] .

At the age of 9, Nina went to a village school, and at the age of 12 she arrived with her family in Lublin and entered the local gymnasium. During World War I, she lived in the Hill , where her military father served. Further along the course of the war, she entered the public account at the Kholm Mariinsky Women's School , with which she later went to evacuate to Odessa , worked in his office.

At the beginning of 1920, she clandestinely joined the CPSU (B.) , And in June she was sent freely through the party line as a fluent Polish speaker to the Polish Front . In the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Western Ukraine , formed in the same year, she was appointed head of the women's work department. In autumn, Kukharchuk was sent to study at the Communist University named after Y. M. Sverdlov , who was in Moscow . In the summer of 1921, she was sent as a teacher to the provincial party school in the Donbass , in the city of Bakhmut .

At the beginning of 1922 she was seriously ill with typhus , but in the summer the party leader Serafima Gopner got her a job at the provincial teacher courses in Taganrog . In the fall, Nina arrived in Yuzovka as a teacher at the district party school, here she met Nikita Khrushchev , who became her husband. At that time he already had a son and a daughter. They officially registered their marriage only after Khrushchev retired, in 1965 .

Nikita and Nina worked together at the Petrovsky mine of the Yuzovsky district . In 1926, Nina again went to Moscow to study at the Communist Academy. Krupskaya at the department of political economy , after which she was sent as a teacher to the Kiev inter-district party school. In 1929, in Kiev, their daughter Rada was born.

In 1930, Nikita Sergeyevich was transferred to Moscow, where the whole family went after him, including children from their first marriage, who lived with them. Nina Petrovna worked at the Kuibyshev Moscow Electric Plant ( MELZ ), where she was a member of the party committee and led the department of agitation and propaganda. The family settled in the four-room apartment of the House on the embankment together with Nikita Sergeyevich's parents. Nina worked at the plant until 1935 , when their son Sergei was born. In 1937, they had a daughter, Elena, who was in poor health and died in her youth. In the future, Nina Petrovna did not stop public work.

In 1938, the Khrushchev returned to Kiev : Nikita became the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine , and Nina began to study English (she was also fluent in Russian , Ukrainian , Polish and French ). During the Great Patriotic War , she lived in evacuation with children in Kuibyshev .

After the death of Stalin, when Nikita Sergeyevich actually headed the Soviet Union and the CPSU, she became the "first lady" of the state. She participated in Khrushchev’s foreign trips, met with top officials of other states and their wives, which was not accepted in the USSR before her.

Nina Petrovna survived Nikita Sergeevich (died in 1971 ) and daughter Elena. She lived at a state dacha in Zhukovka , had a pension of 200 rubles .

Died August 13, 1984 . She was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow .

• Biography on the site about Belopol
• Women's Fates: Nina Khrushcheva Biography on the website “Herald of Real Estate. Kaliningrad

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