1. Katerina Tikhonova is the second daughter of Russian president Vladimir Putin.
14 Facts About Katerina Tikhonova
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Katerina Tikhonova is deputy director of the Institute for Mathematical Research of Complex Systems at Moscow State University.
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Katerina Tikhonova was born in Dresden, East Germany, the younger of two daughters of Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Putina.
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Katerina Tikhonova attended Peterschule, a German Gymnasium in Saint Petersburg.
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Katerina Tikhonova dropped the Putin surname and took the patronymic name of her maternal grandmother, Yekaterina Tikhonovna Shkrebneva, as her surname.
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Katerina Tikhonova graduated from Moscow State University with a specialization in Japan.
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Katerina Tikhonova is the director of Innopraktika, a $1.7 billion development project to create a science center at Moscow State University.
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In February 2020, Innopraktika announced that Katerina Tikhonova was appointed head of a new artificial intelligence institute at Moscow State University.
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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.
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From 2016 to 2019, in the Moscow region, at the sports school where Katerina Tikhonova studied, an acrobatic rock and roll center was built for 2 billion rubles.
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On 6 April 2022, because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Katerina Tikhonova was sanctioned by the United States due to her being an adult child of Vladimir Putin.
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In 2013, Katerina Tikhonova married businessman Kirill Shamalov, the son of Nikolay Shamalov, a co-owner of Rossiya Bank.
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Katerina Tikhonova is vice-president of Sibur Holding, which is a Russian gas processing and petrochemicals company headquartered in Moscow.
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Katerina Tikhonova reportedly has a daughter, born 2017, with ballet dancer Igor Zelensky.