Family of Vladimir Putin

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Five-year-old Vladimir Putin with his mother, Maria, in July 1958

Vladimir Putin with his parents in 1985

The family of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has served in office from 2000 to 2008 and since 2012, comes from the Russian peasantry. Spiridon Putin (1879–1965) was a cook in Gorky (now known as Nizhny Novgorod), his son Vladimir Spiridonovich (1911–1999) participated in World War II, and grandson Vladimir Vladimirovich (born 1952) made a career in the KGB and the FSB, before being appointed chairman of the Russian government in 1999 and becoming president.^[1][2] In 1983, Putin married Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Shkrebneva, who gave birth to two daughters, Maria (1985) and Katerina (1986). They divorced in 2014.^[3]

Putin's wedding, 1983

Wedding of Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Shkrebneva, 1983