Nina Sergeevna Yakovchuk

Background

Nina Sergeevna Yakovchuk was born in 1937 in Novosibirsk.

Education

Nina Sergeevna Yakovchuk graduated from the Ural State University named after Gorky (1954-1959) and postgraduate study at the Department of Political Economy of the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee (1973-1976). By specialty she was a journalist and economist.

Career

Nina Sergeevna Yakovchuk began her career as an editor of the radio newspaper of the Sverdlovsk Machine-Building Plant No. 50 (1959-1960). Later she was a literary employee of the "Literaturnaya Gazeti" (1960). From 1960 to 1971, she worked as a Senior Literature-worker, consultant, and then her own correspondent of the "Economic Newspaper" in the Burmese Union. After returning to her homeland she was a special correspondent for the daily newspaper of the CPSU Central Committee "Socialist Industry". Since 1976, Nina Sergeevna Yakovchuk worked as deputy head of the department in the State Committee for Labor and Social Affairs. In 1986, she moved to the editorial board of the "Economic Newspaper", she was Chief Editor of the newspaper "Economics and Life".

In 1992, with her direct participation and leadership as Chief Editor, was created a newspaper "Economic News of Russia and the Commonwealth" and two her annex: the "Tamozhenni Vestnik" and the "Documents".

Achievements

• Nina Sergeevna Yakovchuk established the Club of Business Women "Jen-Club" and she has been its permanent president since 1989. In 1992, "Jen-Club" was registered by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation as an NGO. “Jen-Club” is accredited to the Commission on the Status of Women of the United Nations, actively participates in its work and annual sessions in New York. The club is approved as Focal Point Instraw (Institute of Women's Advancement under the United Nations) for the Russian Federation.

Connections

Father:

Yakovchuk Sergey Vasilievich

Mother:

Yakovchuk (Klimova) Tatyana Ignatyevna

Spouse:

Podoynitsyn Konstantin Markovich

Son:

Podoynitsyn Sergey Konstantinovich

Daughter:

Pimenova (Podoynitsyna) Ekaterina Konstantinovna