Anatoliy Matvyenko

Date of Birth: 22.03.1953

Place of Birth. Education. Born in Bershad, Vinnytsia Oblast. In 1975, he graduated from Lviv Agricultural Institute (Mechanical Engineering). In 1989 - the Higher Party School. Candidate of Economic Sciences.

Career. 1975-1976 - Head of the Garage, Chief Director of the Mechanization Department of the Bershad Raion Interkolkhoz village management.

From 1977 in Komsomol work. Initially, Secretary of the Bershad Raion LKSMU Committee. From 1980 - Second Secretary of the Vinnytsia Oblast Komsomol Committee, from 1985 - Secretary of the Central Committee of the LKSMU, from 1989 - First Secretary of the CC of the LKSMU, a member of the CC of the Communist Party of Ukraine.

1990-1994 - Deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament of the I session. Chairman of the Committee for Youth Affairs.

Since 1994, founder and head of the Foundation for the Support of the Development of Arts, whose activities aimed to provide financial support to young talented individuals and creative teams.

In 1995-1996, he was Deputy Chairman of the National Democratic Union 'New Ukraine', and from February 1996, Chairman of the newly founded National Democratic Party.

1996-1998 - Governor of Vinnytsia Oblast.

1998-2002 - Deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament of the III session, a member of the Health, Mother, and Child Protection Committee of Parliament. Until 1999, he headed the NDP faction.

Since December 1999 - Chairman of the founded Ukrainian People's Party 'Sobor'. Since April 2002 - Leader of the Ukrainian Republican Party 'Sobor', which emerged from the unification of the NDP 'Sobor' and the Ukrainian Republican Party. Later, the URP 'Sobor' merged with the Ukrainian Platform into the Ukrainian Platform 'Sobor', led by Pavlo Zhebrivskyi.

2002-2005 - Deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament of the IV session from the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko (No. 2 on the list after Yulia Tymoshenko), Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on State Structure and Local Self-Government.

From March to September 2005, he was the Prime Minister of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

Until early 2006, Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the President of Ukraine Oleh Rybachuk.

2006-2007 - Deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament of the V session of 'Our Ukraine' (No. 12 on the election list), First Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on State Structure and Local Self-Government.

2007-2012 - Deputy of the Ukrainian Parliament of the VI session of 'Our Ukraine - National Self-Defense' (No. 22 on the list), a member of the Parliamentary Committee on State Structure and Local Self-Government.

In 2012, he ran as an independent candidate in the majority constituency in the Vinnytsia Oblast, but withdrew his candidacy in October and supported a candidate backed by the United Opposition (BYuT) and the UDAR party Grigoriy Zabolotnyi, who received 46.73% of the votes and was elected to Parliament.

Chairman of the National Association for Sports Tourism of Ukraine.

Views and Evaluations. In June 1997, Matvyenko sharply criticized the Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko at the II NDP Congress and expressed suspicions of corruption.

In May 1999, he voluntarily resigned from the position of party chairman at the IV NDP Congress. The politician disagreed with the decision made by the Congress to support the incumbent president Kuchma in the 1999 presidential elections due to administrative pressure.

In February 2001, he joined the Council of the Forum for National Salvation, created to combat the Kuchma regime. In July, he became Deputy Chairman of the newly formed Opposition Block of Yulia Tymoshenko, of which the NDP 'Sobor' party also became a member.

In September 2005, he resigned from his positions as Chairman of the Cabinet of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and of the URP 'Sobor' party - in protest against his party colleagues' failure to support Yuriy Yekhanurov's candidacy as Prime Minister of Ukraine. After some initiators of the unsuccessful voting on Yekhanurov and the determined supporters of Tymoshenko left the party and the relationship between Matvyenko and Tymoshenko had significantly deteriorated at that time, the politician was restored to his membership in 'Sobor'. He was later re-elected as party leader.

After his breakup with Tymoshenko, Matvyenko was considered one of the staunchest and most consistent supporters of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko. After the early parliamentary elections in 2007, he made several remarks on the draft coalition agreement between NUNS and BYuT.

Social Activities. Since 1999 - President of the Institute for Open Policy (a non-governmental research organization aimed at establishing the ideals of open and responsible politics concerning voters). In 2000, he founded the Charity Foundation 'Ukraine Incognita'. Chairman of the National Association for Sports Tourism of Ukraine.

Family. Wife Olga Vasilievna (born 1953, lecturer at Kyiv Linguistic Institute), sons Viktor and Pavlo.

Hobbies. Poetry, football, tourism.

Death. Anatoliy Matvyenko died on May 22, 2020, at the age of 68.

22.05.2020.