Volodymyr and Olena Zelensky – married for 19 years: wedding photos released | Names

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska, who got married 19 years ago, are celebrating their wedding anniversary on September 6.

True, neither Volodymyr nor Olena have yet congratulated each other on social networks. However, on a special occasion, archival photos of the wedding of Volodymyr and Olena Zelenskiy appeared on the Internet.

As we celebrate their wedding anniversary, let’s remember the story of how one of the world’s most powerful couples met.

Volodymyr and Olena met in Kryvyi Rih, where they are from. An eight-year romantic friendship with Olena, who studied with Volodymyr at the same high school in Kryvyi Rih 95, just in the next class, ended. In the past, several dozen joint trips to concerts and KVK festivals, fun associations and temporary separations remained. They were waiting for a joint life, storming the top of the entertainment business and the status of the first lady of Ukraine.

On September 6, 2003, Volodymyr Zelenskiy entered Olena Kiyashko’s yard in Kryvyi Rih together with his “neighborhood” friends Oleksandr Pikalov, Serhiy Shefir, Yuriy Koriavchenkov, Olena Kravec and his parents. Wearing a light suit, tie and holding a bouquet of flowers, the future president was ready for the marriage ceremony.

Although they studied in adjacent classes, Volodymyr and Olena met after finishing school.

Of course, if someone had told Olena 19 years ago that her husband would become the president of Ukraine and she would become the first lady of the country, she would not have believed it. At least in 2003 it seemed like a real utopia.

Although they studied in adjacent classes, Volodymyr and Olena met after finishing school. At that time, he was already studying law at the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics, and she was studying architecture at the Kryvyi Rih University.

“Kvartal 95” actor and Zelensky’s old friend Oleksandr Pikalov has said that in order to introduce Volodymyr to Olena, he asked her to give him a video cassette to watch. And it was already returned to Olena by Zelensky. According to him, this is how the friendship began, which then turned into an eight-year romance and marriage. However, Zelenska remembers that everything was much simpler: she and her friend were walking down the street, and Volodymyr and his boys were in front of them.

“We lived in the same area of ​​the city. That’s how we got to know each other word by word, started communicating, and then started dating. At first, I wasn’t in the mood to start a relationship, but he achieved his goal,” she said.

Although Olena graduated from Kijaška University with honors, she was never destined to work as an architect. By the way, Volodymyr Zelensky did not become a lawyer either.

Now the Zelenskys are raising two children – daughter Aleksandra and son Kirill.