Tatiana Andropova

Tatyana Filippovna Andropova (; ; 1917–1991) was a Soviet woman who was the second wife of Soviet leader Yuri Andropov.

Biography Lebedeva was born in 1917. She graduated from a pedagogical school and joined the Komsomol activities where she was appointed to the Komsomol in Karelia in 1940. At that time Yuri Andropov was serving as the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of the Karelo-Finnish SSR. Andropov's wife and two children did not move to the region with him when he was appointed the post.

In 1951 the family began to live in Moscow when Yuri Andropov was assigned to the central committee of the Communist Party. From 1954 to 1957 Yuri Andropov served as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Soviet Union to Hungary. Tatyana and their children accompanied him. Due to health problems Tatyana did not fulfil the official duties when Andropov was the general secretary of the Communist Party and lived as a recluse in their apartment.