Nina Kukharchuk-Khrushcheva
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Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk-Khrushcheva was the second wife of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
Khrushcheva in 1961
Nina Khrushcheva, 1924
Andrei Gromyko, Nina Khrushcheva, Eleanor Roosevelt and Nikita Khrushchev in Hyde Park, New York, in 1959
Nina Khrushcheva at a fashion show in 1960
Nikita Khrushchev
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Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964. As leader of the Sovi
Nina Kukharchuk-Khrushcheva
…Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk-Khrushcheva (née Kukharchuk; 14 April 1900 – 13 August 1984) was the second wife of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Nina Kukharchuk was born in the small village of Wasylów in the Russian Empire (present-day Poland). Her parents, Petro Vasyliovych Kukharchuk and…
Official portrait, 1954
Khrushchev and his first wife Euphrasinia (Yefrosinia) in 1916
Khrushchev's second wife (though they only officially married in 1965) was Ukrainian-born Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk, whom he met in 1922. Photo taken in 1924
Lazar Kaganovich, one of the chief enforcers of Stalin's dictatorship and Khrushchev's main patron.