Nina Petrovna Khrushcheva[a][b] (née Kukharchuk;[c] 14 April 1900 – 13 August 1984) was the second wife of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

In Moscow, Kukharchuk lived with Khrushchev's parents and worked as a party leader at a lamp factory.

In 1935 she gave birth to their son Sergei and in 1937 to their daughter Elena, who died aged 35 due to poor health.

[1][2] In 1938 Khrushchev was appointed as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, and his family returned to Kyiv, but only three years later they were evacuated to Samara due to the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

She could communicate in five languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, French and English, which she studied for many years in various Communist Party schools.