Katerina Tikhonova
Katerina Tikhonova is a Russian acrobatic dancer, and director of two initiatives at Moscow State University: the National Intellectual Development Foundation and the National Intellectual Reserve Centre. She is the daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Biography
Tikhonova was born in Dresden, East Germany, the younger of two daughters of Vladimir Putin and Lyudmila Putina. She attended German School Moscow. She dropped the Putin surname and took the matronymic name of her maternal grandmother, Yekaterina Tikhonovna Shkrebneva, as her surname. Tikhonova is the director of Innopraktika, a $1.7 billion development project to create a science center at Moscow State University. Innopraktika is competing with the Skolkovo Innovation Center and is referred to by Stanislav Belkovsky as being the "anti-Skolkovo".
As an acrobatic rock'n'roll dancer, she and partner Ivan Klimov came in fifth place at a 2013 world championship event in Switzerland.
In 2013, Tikhonova married Kirill Shamalov, the son of Nikolay Shamalov a co-owner of Rossiya Bank. He is also vice-president of Sibur Holding, which is a Russian gas processing and petrochemicals company headquartered in Moscow. The Russian government holds 38% of the shares of the gas company. At the time, the couple was estimated to hold assets worth around $2 billion. In January 2018, it was reported that Tikhonova and Shamalov had separated.
She majored in Asian studies at Saint Petersburg State University. Tikhonova has a master's degree in physics and mathematics. In February 2020, Innopraktika announced that Tikhonova was appointed head of a new artificial intelligence institute at Moscow State University.
