Nina Khrushcheva

Nina Petrovna Kukharchuk-Khrushcheva (; 14 April 1900 – 13 August 1984) was the second wife of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. In 1926, Kukharchuk was again sent to Moscow, to study political economy, and after that taught at a party school in Kiev . In 1929, in Kiev, she gave birth to Rada, her first child with Khrushchev. She also took care of Khrushchev's two children from his previous marriage, and when in 1930 Khrushchev was sent to Moscow, she followed him there. In Moscow, Kukharchuk lived with Khrushchev's parents and worked as a party leader at a lamp factory. In 1935, she gave birth to their son Sergei, and in 1937, to their daughter Elena, who died at the age 35 due to poor health.

Kukharchuk and Khrushchev officially married only in 1965, after Khrushchev was retired from office. Despite popular belief, she never took her husband's last name, instead opting to hyphenate and add it after her own. After his death, she spent the rest of her life in Zhukovka in Moscow Oblast.