Adam Martyniuk

Date of birth: 16.08.1950

Place of birth. Education. Born in the village of Vetly in the Lyubeshivsky district of the Volyn region. In 1972 he graduated from the Lutsk State Pedagogical Institute named after L.Ukrainka with a degree as a history and social studies teacher. Doctor of Historical Sciences (1976).

Career. 1967-1968 - Laboratory assistant at the secondary school in Vetlivska.

1972 - History teacher at the school in the village of Bolshaya Glusha in the Lyubeshivsky district.

1975-1981 - Postgraduate student, junior and senior researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. After that, Martyniuk, a member of the CPSU since 1970, followed the party line.

1981-1988 - Lecturer, Deputy Head of the House of Political Education, Deputy Head of the Department of Propaganda and Agitation of the Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine in Lviv.

1988-1991 - Secretary of the City Committee of the CPU in Lviv, ideological instructor of the Central Committee of the CPU, First Secretary of the City Committee of the CPU in Lviv.

1991-1994, after the ban of the party - caretaker of the business premises of the agricultural company 'Ukraine' in Kyiv.

In 1991, Martyniuk joined the Socialist Party of Ukraine and led the editorial office of the central party newspaper Tovarishch from 1992 to 1993.

In 1993, after the legalization of the Communist Party of Ukraine, he rejoined the CPU and became the editor-in-chief of the party newspaper Kommunist, for which he worked until 1997.

In 1995 he became a member of the Presidium and the second secretary of the Central Committee of the CPU (the second man in the party after the leader Petro Symonenko).

1997-1998 - Head of the Central Election Headquarters of the CPU.

1998-2002 - Deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament III. convocation from the CPU. Since 1998 he has been the first deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Alexander Tkachenko.

2002-2006 - Deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament IV. convocation from the CPU. Since 2003, the first deputy speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Lytvyn.

2006-2007 - Deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament V. convocation from the CPU. First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Alexander Moroz.

2007-2012 - Deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament VI. convocation from the CPU. Deputy Head of the Communist faction. On May 11, 2010, he was elected as the first vice-speaker of the parliament in place of the regional Alexander Lavrinovich, who switched to the government.

From December 2012 to November 2014 - Deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament VII. convocation from the CPU (No. 8 on the electoral list). First Deputy Head of the CPU faction. Member of the Parliament Committee on National Security and Defense issues.

On January 16, 2014, he voted for the 'dictatorial laws' - a package of anti-democratic laws that significantly restricted the rights of citizens and freedom of speech.

Awards. Doctor of Historical Sciences. Awarded with the Order of Yaroslav the Wise, V class (2005).

Family. Wife Valentyna Filippovna (b. 1956). Daughter Natalia (b. 1979).

16.08.2022