Tatyana Bakiyeva

Tatyana Vasilevna Bakiyeva (Russian: Татьяна Васильевна Бакиева; née Petrova; born on 26 January, late-1940s[1]) is a Kyrgyzstani public figure who is the wife of former President of Kyrgyzstan, Kurmanbek Bakiyev and the First Lady of Kyrgyzstan from March 2005 to April 2010.

[2] Russian by ethnicity, she was born in Kuybyshev (now Samara) in the RSFSR and was raised in the Moldovan SSR (now Moldova).

She began her career in 1971 working at large industrial enterprises such as the production association "ZIM" in Samara.

For a short period of time, she headed the Chui Regional Branch of the Meerim Foundation, which her predecessor Mayram Akayeva, founded.

While she was first lady, she showed minimal activity, limiting herself to accompanying Bakiyev at official meetings and various government events.