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Evgenia Tebenchuk

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Evgenia Tebenchuk
Evgenia Tebenchuk
Birth: 15 January 1902
Chernyavka, Russian Empire
Death: 9 August 2013
Kyiv, Ukraine
Age: 111 years, 206 days
Country: UkraineUKR
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Evgenia Markiyanovna Tebenchuk (Yevheniya Markiyanivna Tebenchuk) (Ukrainian: Євгенія Маркіянівна Тебенчук: 28 January 1902 – 9 August 2013) was a Ukrainian supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography[]

Evgenia Markiyanovna Tebenchuk was born in the Chernyavka, Vinnytsia Region, Podolsk Province, Russian Empire, on 28 January 1902. She was a teacher by profession.

At the age of 109 and 74 days, she was awarded a diploma of the National Register of Records of Ukraine as the oldest living person in Ukraine. She saw Tsar Nicholas II, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, Stalin and the later rulers of USSR. She survived the famine and the Great Patriotic War, the death of four children and the death of her husband at the front.

In the last years of Evgenia Markijanovna's life, she lived alone, she was often visited by grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Evgenia Markijanovna considered the secret of her longevity to be a proper diet and a good attitude towards people, and she also noted that everything that happens in life should be understood calmly. In 2011 she had one daughter, two grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Tebenchuk died in Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, on 9 August 2013 from ischemia of the heart, at the age of 111 years, 193 days. She was buried in the Zvirynets cemetery in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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