Viktor Yanukovych "individual study programs" such as Yanukovych's were commonly viewed as a diploma mill for state officials. Yanukovych was married to Lyudmyla Oleksandrivna. The couple married in 1971. In February 2017, Yanukovych admitted that after 45 years of marriage he had divorced Lyudmyla. With his former wife, Yanukovych had two sons, Oleksandr and Viktor, and three grandsons Viktor, Oleksandr and Iliya. From 2006 to 2014, the younger Viktor was a member of the Parliament of Ukraine; he drowned in 2015. In February 2017, Yanukovych stated he was living in an "unofficial marriage" with then 39 year old Lybov Polezhay. Polezhay is
Oleksandr Turchynov he worked at Kryvorizhstal, a large Ukrainian steel producer. From 1987 to 1990, he served as head of the agitation and propaganda division of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Komsomol (Communist Youth League) Committee, which was led by Serhiy Tihipko. Tihipko and Turchynov became political advisers of Leonid Kuchma, then head of Dnipropetrovsk-based Pivdenmash missile manufacturer. Kuchma and his entire team, including Tihipko and Turchynov moved to Kiev in 1992, after Kuchma was appointed Prime Minister. In 1993 Turchynov was formally appointed an advisor on economic issues to Prime Minister Kuchma. Turchynov is an old ally of Yulia Tymoshenko, another prominent Ukrainian