
Husband Alexander
The politician’s maiden name is Grigyan. On September 15, 1979, she married Alexander Timoshenko, taking his last name. At that time, the newlyweds were 19 years old.
They met on the phone three years before the wedding, the young man made the wrong number and invited his interlocutor on a first date.
In February 1980, the couple had their only daughter, Evgenia.
In 2025, Yulia and Alexander Tymoshenko celebrated their 46th anniversary of marriage registration – this date is popularly called the lavender wedding.
Yulia Tymoshenko’s husband is a businessman, but lately the politician has been avoiding mentioning him.
Evgenia's daughter
45-year-old Evgenia is a mother of many children. In January 2022, Ukrainian media wrote that she and her family live in Dubai (UAE).
Evgenia is married for the second time. Her husband is Ukrainian businessman Arthur Chechetkin. They got married at the end of December 2014.
The couple are raising three children, the youngest of whom, son Adam, was born at the end of 2020.
From her first husband, British musician Sean Carr, Evgenia has no children. The politician’s daughter married Carr in 2005. They lived together for seven years. Carr died in January 2018. He was 49 years old. Tymoshenko is eight years older than her first son-in-law.
Grandchildren
Evgenia Tymoshenko gave birth to her first child, daughter Eva, on June 28, 2016. At that time she was 36 years old.
In addition to Eve and Adam, Evgenia Timoshenko and Arthur Chechetkin have an eldest son, David. He was born in August 2019.
Context
Yulia Tymoshenko was born in 1960 in Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine). From February 4 to September 8, 2005 and from December 18, 2007 to March 3, 2010, she served as Prime Minister of Ukraine, becoming the first woman prime minister in the country.
In 2010, 2014 and 2019, Tymoshenko ran for the presidency of Ukraine. On October 11, 2011, Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years in prison in the case of abuse of power and official authority when concluding gas contracts with Russia in January 2009. On February 22, 2014, the Verkhovna Rada released Tymoshenko from prison. On April 14, 2014, the Supreme Court of Ukraine closed the Tymoshenko gas case.
Currently, Tymoshenko heads the Batkivshchyna party faction in the Verkhovna Rada.





