Tymoshenko graduated from high school in 1977 (school № 37 in Dnipropetrovsk).In 1978 Tymoshenko joined the mining department of the Dnipropetrovsk Mining Institute. In 1979 she transferred to the Economic Department of the Dnipropetrovsk State University and majored in cybernetic engineering. In 1984 Tymoshenko graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk State University with honors (red diploma) as an engineer-economist.
In 1999, she defended a PhD dissertation, entitled State Regulation of the tax system, at the Kiev National Economic University.
Personal life
Tymoshenko and her husband rent a house in Kiev (the house belongs to relatives) and own a house in Dnipropetrovsk. Tymoshenko has declared she never used and will never use or move into a state-owned summer house, in contrast with all former-Presidents of Ukraine, who are all living in state-owned dachas in Koncha-Zaspa. According to Ukrainian media Tymoshenko lives in an estate in Koncha-Zaspa (estimated worth: $5 million), "rented from a friend for free".Tymoshenko has publicly stated that, like most Soviet citizens, she spoke only Russian in her childhood (although Tymoshenko had been studying the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian literature at the school for 10 years, as all schoolchildren in Soviet Ukraine). In January 2010 Tymoshenko stated that in Dnipropetrovsk she did not have to speak Ukrainian until she was 36 (i.e. before 1996).
Hobbies
According to Tymoshenko her braids are a family tradition.In her spare time, before she was imprisoned, Tymoshenko ran on a treadmill for exercise and listened to the music of Andrea Bocelli, Sarah Brightman, Anna Netrebko and Alessandro Safina. Ukrayinska Pravda is her favourite news source. Tymoshenko has stated she has watched the Tunisian Revolution and Egyptian Revolution of 2011 "with joy and admiration".
Family
Mother – Lyudmila Telegina (born 11 August 1937, in Dnipropetrovsk).More Pictures of Yulia Tymoshenko
Father – Vladimir Grigyan (born 3 December 1937, in Dnipropetrovsk)
Husband – Oleksandr Tymoshenko (born 11 June 1960), businessman, married Yulia Telegina in 1979. Father of Olexander – Gennadi Tymoshenko.
Daughter – Yevhenia (Eugenia) Tymoshenko (born 20 February 1980) – a graduate of the London School of Economics (in politics and philosophy).
Son-in-law – Sean Carr (born 10 August 1968) – English rock musician, leader of the British band "Death Valley Screamers"
