The President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko is a father of three kids and has been married to his wife Galina since 1975. Let’s meet his family; spouse, and sons.
Lukashenko (real name: Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko or Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka) is a Belarusian politician who has been the president of Belarus since the establishment of the office on 20 July 1994, making him the longest-sitting European president.
Mr. Lukashenko is often dubbed the last dictator of Europe and has ruled Belarus since 1994. Activists have fled the country en masse since a crackdown on protesters and dissenting voices following the 2020 presidential election, which observers described as rigged after Mr. Lukashenko claimed to have won more than 81 percent of the vote.
He is a close ally of the Russian president and allowed Russian forces to use Belarus’s borders with Ukraine as a launchpad for its invasion in February 2022. He is the only foreign leader who has regularly sat down with Mr. Putin since the attack began, with the pair meeting at least 14 times.
“They are two Siamese twins,” said Pavel Latushka, a former Belarusian diplomat and minister now in exile. “They can’t live without each other. It’s one body, two heads. The fall of one means the political death of another.”
Aside from his connection with Vladimir V. Putin, Lukashenko is a family man, he has been married for decades and has children. So, who is Mr. Alexander Lukashenko’s wife and how many children does he have?
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Who is Alexander Lukashenko married to?
Lukashenko was born in Kopys, Belarus – a country famous for its forests and lakes on August 30, 1954.
His actual date of birth became a topic of discussion and caused a massive stir when he once revealed in an interview he had with the media in 2009 that he was instead born on August 31, 1954. This caused some confusion as all official sources had said 30 August 1954 up until then. An explanation was later given that his mother had entered the hospital on the 30th in labor but had not given birth until after midnight.
While was mother is revealed to be Ekaterina Trofimovna Lukashenko, who worked unskilled jobs on a railway, at a construction site, at a flax factory in Orsha, and finally as a milkmaid in Alexandria, a small village in the east of Belarus, close to the Russian border, the identity of his father is a mystery.
At the moment, it is believed that Lukashenko grew up without a father in his childhood, leading him to be taunted by his schoolmates for having an unmarried mother. Due to this, the origin of his patronymic Grigorevich is unknown and there are various rumors about who Lukashenko’s father might have been, with the most popular version being that he was a Roma passing through the region.
His maternal grandfather, Trokhym Ivanovich Lukashenko, had been born in the Sumy Oblast of Ukraine near Shostka (today the village of Sobycheve).
Lukashenko went to Alexandria secondary school. He graduated from the Mogilev Pedagogical Institute (now Mogilev State A. Kuleshov University) in 1975, after 4 years studying there and the Belarusian Agricultural Academy in Horki in 1985.
In all of his family struggles and living and surviving with a father, he still succeeded in his career and dream and now he is a husband and a father.
So, who is Alexander Lukashenko’s wife? President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko is married to Galina Zhelnerovich since 1975. He met his wife in high school and dated for years before they tied the knot.
Although Lukashenko and Galina are still legally married, they have an estranged relationship. They have lived apart as she now lives separately in Shklow.
In a 2014 interview, Lukashenko said that they had not lived together for 30 years and that they had not divorced because he did not want to traumatize his adult sons.
Lukashenko has been seen on public occasions with various women; when asked about this in the same 2014 interview he explained that he did not want to sit with an official with a “sour face”, preferring “My son on one side, and a girl on the other”.
It is also reported that the Belarus leader had an extramarital affair with his doctor, Irina Abelskaya, and they even gave birth to his youngest son, Nikolai.
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Who are Alexander Lukashenko’s children?
President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko has three children – all boys. The names of all his kids are Viktor Lukashenko, Dimitry Lukashenko, and Nikolai Lukashenko. He shares his first two children with his wife Galina Zhelnerovich and his last child with his alleged mistress. But, he has no daughter.
His first son, Viktor was born around 1975 few months before his parents tied the knot, his second son, Dmitry, was born in 1980 and his youngest son Nikolai was born in 2004.
His two elder sons also play ice hockey, sometimes alongside their father.
All of his children have faced bans and sanctions from countries like Japan.
Viktor
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Viktor was born on 28 November 1975 and is the first child of Belarus president Lukashenko and his wife Galina.
Viktor is a Belarusian politician currently serving as the Belarus Olympic Committee president. Previously, he served as a national security advisor to his father, the president of Belarus.
Viktor Lukashenko graduated from the International Relations faculty of the Belarusian State University in 1998 and served his mandatory military duty at the Belarusian Border Guard Service between 1998-2001.
He is currently married to Lilya Lukashenko and they have 4 children.
Dmitry
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Lukashenko’s second son, Dmitry was born on 23 March 1980. He is a Belarusian businessman and the head of the Presidential Sports Club.
Dmitry Lukashenko graduated from the International Relations faculty of the Belarusian State University. He served in the Border Guard Service of Belarus.
Nikolai
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Nikolai aka Kolya is the third son of Lukashenko, Alexander Lukashenko, the president of Belarus. He was born on August 31, 2004, in Minsk, Belarus – making his current age 18.
The mother of Lukashenko’s son Nikolai has remained a mystery for years as it has been alleged that it could be Irina Abelskaya.
Nikolai was raised solely by his father.
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It has been reported by Western observers and media that Nikolai, is being groomed as Lukashenko’s successor. According to Belarusian state media, these speculations were dismissed by Lukashenko, who also denied that he would remain in office for a further thirty years—when Nikolai becomes eligible to stand for election and succeed him.