Yelena Nikolayevna Baturina (; born 8 March 1963) is an international billionaire businesswoman and a philanthropist of Russian origin. She is based in London. She was married to Yury Luzhkov, mayor of Moscow (from 1992 to 2010), until his death in 2019. In 1991, she founded Inteco, an investment and construction company. According to Forbes, with a fortune of $1.2 billion, she was the richest woman in Russia, until Tatyana Bakalchuk overtook her spot in February 2020 with $1.4 billion. Biography Baturina is a Moscow native who began working as a design-technician at the (where her parents worked) after graduating from high school. 1980–1982: the Frazer plant, technician-designer, then senior design engineer of the Chief Technologist Department; 1982–1989: Institute of Integrated Economic Development of Moscow, researcher; Russian Union of United Cooperatives, head of the Secretariat; the Mosgorispolkom Commission on cooperative activity, senior specialist. since 1989 engaged in private business activities; 1991–1994: LLP "Inteco", director; 1994–2011: CJSC "Inteco", president; 2006–2011: deputy head of the interdepartmental working group on the priority national project "Affordable and Comfortable Housing to Russian citizens", a member of the commission on the development of affordable housing under the President of the Russian Federation on the implementation of priority national projects and demographic policy. Baturina met her future husband, Yury Luzhkov, in 1987 when they were both serving at Mosgorispolkom, a Soviet-era municipal commission. At the period of their co-working the relationships were purely professional. In one of her interviews Baturina remembers: "We never even thought about anything like that when we were working together, it all happened much later". Baturina and Luzhkov married in 1991. The next year, he became mayor of Moscow. In 2010, he was dismissed by President Dmitry Medvedev amidst still unproven accusations of corruption and mismanagement voiced on state run television. After her husband's dismissal, Baturina moved to London. She explains the choice of the city by the fact that her two daughters decided to study in London In November 2010, Luzhkov gave an interview to the Telegraph newspaper stating that the couple was sending their daughters to study in London to protect them from possible persecution from the Russian authorities. He also said that a house had been rented in the west of the city for them and that he and his wife intend to visit them regularly. Luzhkov also claimed that the Russian authorities were planning to break up Baturina's business