Yulia Navalnaya

Yulia Borisovna Navalnaya (; ; born 24 July 1976) is a Russian public figure, economist and the wife of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. She has been described in media as the "First Lady" of the Russian opposition. Biography Early years Navalnaya was born Yulia Borisovna Abrosimova on 24 July 1976 in Moscow, Soviet Union, in the family of scientist Boris Aleksandrovich Abrosimov (1952—1996). Her mother worked for the Ministry of Light Industry; her parents divorced when Navalnaya was in fifth grade, and her mother married a second time, to an employee of the USSR State Planning Committee. In 2020, journalist Oleg Kashin said that Navalnaya's father is the currently living Boris Borisovich Abrosimov, the secretary of the Russian embassy in Great Britain, associated with the special services, and her aunt is Elena Borisovna Abrosimova, one of the authors of the Russian constitution. Navalny, in response to this, published a death certificate for his father-in-law, dated 1996. Navalnaya graduated from the Faculty of International Economic Relations of the Plekhanov Russian Economic Academy, later did an internship abroad, studied in graduate school, and worked for some time at a Moscow bank.