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Tamara Krutikov
Tamara Krutikov
Tamara Krutikov on her 110th birthday in 2022
Birth: 27 March 1912
Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (present-day Dnipro, Ukraine)
Death: 6 July 2022
New Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
Age: 110 years, 101 days
Country: RussiaRUSSerbiaSRB
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Tamara Vladimirovna Krutikov (Serbian: Тамара Крутиков, Russian: Тамара Владимировна Крутикова) (née Kruglov; 27 March 1912 – 6 July 2022) was a Russian-born Serbian supercentenarian who was the oldest living person in Serbia at the time of her death. Her age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography[]

Tamara Krutikov was born in Yekaterinoslav, Russian Empire (present-day Dnipro, Ukraine) on 27 March 1912. She had no siblings. When she was seven years old, she left the territory of Ukraine with her parents and moved to Turkey in 1919, soon to Yugoslavia in 1923, where she later married and started a family. Tamara moved from Constantinople to the island of Kinaliada, where she went to school for two years, under the patronage of the English. Later they moved to the village of Melinci near Herceg Novi, Montenegro. After a short stay in Herceg Novi, they moved to Hrastovec, Slovenia where she spent most of her high school years at Count Gerbenstein's castle. There she met her future husband Nikola. He was a music teacher there. Her mother Ana got a job there as a teacher, and Tamara's father Vladimir Kruglov as a school secretary and math teacher. In the early 1930s she moved to Bela Crkva to enroll and finish high school. She married Nikola in 1939, and on 23 July 1939, they got married in a Russian church in Belgrade. Together with her husband Nikola Krutikov (1900–1981), she had three daughters: Natalia (1941), Irina (1946) and Zinaida (1950). After the official wedding and a short stay in Belgrade, she had to move again to Kavadarci, North Macedonia, where her husband got a job as a music teacher and she was taught ballet there. Afterwards, they moved to Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina because they got a job there. There in Bihac, she met the Horvatovic family from Zagreb who helped her to come to them in Zagreb, Croatia during the World War II for a short period of time to give birth and then she gave birth to a daughter Natalija in 1941. After giving birth she returned to Bihac, where was born her youngest daughter Zinaida in 1950.

Krutikov's husband Nikola died in Belgrade on 14 December 1981 at the age of 81. Until the age of 94, she lived alone, and later her daughter Zinaida returned from Russia to take care of her. During her career, she was the: professor of music and French language, played the piano and played tennis. She spoke Russian, French, Greek, Turkish, Macedonian, English and Serbian.

On 16 April 2021, following the death of 109-year-old Nadezda Pavlovic, she became the oldest known living person in Serbia.

On 27 March 2022, she celebrated her 110th birthday, becoming a supercentenarian, and the second supercentenarian ever recorded in Serbia (after Jelisaveta Veljkovic (1904–2016)).

Tamara Krutikov died in New Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia, on 6 July 2022, at the age of 110 years, 101 days. Following her death, then-107-year-old Milka Baukovic became the oldest known living person in Belgrade and Serbia.

Her age was verified by Dejan Vujic (GRG correspondent for Serbia), Boris Vlchek (her grandson) and Igor Bashyrov, and validated by the GRG on 12 February 2023.

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External Links[]

  • Bakin zagrljaj RTS Beogradska hronika Jutarnji program on Youtube, 28 March 2017

References[]

Serbia’s Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E)

Rade Grujicic • Kostadinka Momirovic • Jovo Latinovic • Jelisaveta Veljkovic • Mara Radenkovic • Darinka Jandric • Nadezda Pavlovic • Tamara Krutikov • Milka Baukovic

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