Ekaterina Tikhonova is a Russian public figure and the alleged youngest daughter of President Vladimir Putin. She is known as the head of the Innopraktika holding, which unites a network of institutions involved in the creation and development of scientific and innovative state projects.
Biography
Officially, the biography of Ekaterina Tikhonova has not been published anywhere, but in 2015 the international journalistic agency Reuters stated that all available information indicated a direct relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. She was born on August 31, 1986 in the German city of Dresden and, apparently, is the youngest daughter of a Russian leader who served there. The girl's mother, Lyudmila Putina, worked as a philologist and tried to devote as much time as possible to the upbringing of Catherine and her sister Maria. According to the president's wife, Vladimir Putin also loved his daughters very much and often spoiled them.
The daughters of the future leader of Russia studied at a German school, and after the family returned to their home country in 1996, at an educational institution at the German Embassy. In 2000, when Vladimir Putin took office, they switched to homeschooling. After receiving the certificate, Ekaterina continued her education at the Faculty of Oriental Studies of St. Petersburg State University. It is known that the president's daughter speaks English, Chinese, Korean, German and French.
Business
In the future, Catherine took the surname Tikhonova (most likely for security reasons) and studied at Moscow State University. In 2012, she became the head of the Center for National Intellectual Reserve at this institution, which oversees projects of young professionals. She also created the National Intellectual Development Foundation with the aim of financially supporting promising scientists and united both institutions under the NPO Innopraktika brand.
Currently, Innopraktika's partners are the largest Russian companies, including Rosneft, Rostec, Sibur, Rosatom and others. The fund's annual revenue is over 250 million rubles.
Personal life
In 2010, Yekaterina Tikhonova, according to rumors, was preparing to marry the son of one of the South Korean officials, but this did not happen. In 2013, she nevertheless got married, and Kirill Shamanov, the son of a prominent St. Petersburg businessman Nikolai Shamalov, became her husband. Kirill is a co-owner of the industrial holding Sibur and is recognized by Forbes as the youngest dollar billionaire in Russia.
From her youth, Ekaterina Tikhonova is fond of acrobatic rock and roll - a competitive sport dance. The president's daughter was noted for many performances at international championships, but she managed to achieve the greatest success at the all-Russian competition held in 2016. Together with her dance partner Ivan Klimov, she won the Russian Cup. At the moment, Tikhonova heads the International Committee of the Acrobatic Rock and Roll Confederation in Russia.
