Katerina Tikhonova

Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova (born 31 August 1986) is the daughter of Vladimir Putin, an acrobatic dancer, and director of two initiatives at Moscow State University, the National Intellectual Development Foundation (NIDF) and the National Intellectual Reserve Centre (NIRC). She is also 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". Tikhonova dropped Putin's surname and took the patronymic name of her maternal grandmother, Yekaterina Tikhonovna Shkrebneva, as her surname.

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• Putins Billionaire Daughter Reuters investigation reveals identity of Katerina Tikhonova
• President Putins daughter competes in dancing competition
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In 2013, Tikhonova married Kirill Shamalov, the son of Nikolay Shamalov a co-owner of Rossiya Bank. The couple is estimated to hold assets worth around $2 billion.