{{Short description|Ukrainian politician (1953–2020)}} {{Family name hatnote|Serhiyovych|Matviyenko|lang=Eastern Slavic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Anatoliy Matviyenko | native_name = {{Nobold|Анатолій Матвієнко}} | native_name_lang = uk | image = НДУ 8 Матвієнко Анатолій Сергійович.jpg | caption = Matviyenko in 2014 | office = [[People's Deputy of Ukraine]] | term_start = 27 November 2014 | term_end = 29 August 2019 | constituency = Petro Poroshenko Bloc, No. 32 | term_start1 = 25 May 2006 | term_end1 = 12 December 2012 | constituency1 = {{plainlist| * Our Ukraine Bloc, No. 12 {{small|(2006–2007)}} * Our Ukraine Bloc, No. 22 {{small|(2007–2012)}} }} | term_start2 = 12 May 1998 | term_end2 = 19 May 2005 | constituency2 = {{plainlist| * [[People's Democratic Party (Ukraine)|People's Democratic Party]], No. 2 {{small|(1998–2002)}} * [[Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc]], No. 2 {{small|(2002–2005)}} }} | term_start3 = 15 May 1990 | term_end3 = 15 May 1994 | predecessor3 = ''Position established'' | constituency3 = [[Vinnytsia Oblast]], [[Bershad]] | office4 = [[Prime Minister of Crimea]] | term_start4 = 20 April 2005 | term_end4 = 21 September 2005 | president4 = | predecessor4 = [[Serhiy Kunitsyn]] | successor4 = [[Anatoliy Burdiuhov]] | office5 = [[Governor of Vinnytsia Oblast]] | term_start5 = 18 June 1996 | term_end5 = 12 May 1998 | predecessor5 = [[Mykola Melnyk (politician)|Mykola Melnyk]] | successor5 = [[Mykola Chumak]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1953|3|22|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Bershad]], Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union | death_date = {{death date and age|2020|5|22|1953|3|22|df=y}} | death_place = [[Kyiv]], Ukraine | party = [[European Solidarity|Petro Poroshehnko Bloc]] (until 2019) | other_party = {{plainlist| * [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (1977–1991) * [[People's Democratic Party (Ukraine)|People's Democratic Party]] (1996–1999) * [[Republican Platform]] (1999–2014) * [[Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc]] (2005–2006) * [[Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc|Our Ukraine Bloc]] (2006–2012) }} }} '''Anatoliy Serhiyovych Matviyenko''' ({{langx|uk|Анатолій Сергійович Матвієнко}}, 22 March 1953 – 22 May 2020) was a Ukrainian politician who was a [[People's Deputy of Ukraine]] from 1990 to 2019. During his political career, Matviyenko founded several political parties.<ref>[https://ukr.lb.ua/news/2020/05/22/458127_pomer_ukrainskiy_politik_anatoliy.html Помер український політик Анатолій Матвієнко], [[Lb.ua]] (22 May 2020) {{in lang|uk}}</ref>
== Early life and career == Matviyenko was born on 22 March 1953, in [[Bershad]], Vinnytsia Oblast, to a working-class family. In 1975, he graduated from the Lviv Agrarian Institute, Agrarian Mechanization faculty. Between 1975 and 1977 Matviyenko worked as a mechanic in Bershad. From 1977 he was an activist of [[Komsomol of Ukraine|Komsomol]] (LKSMU) and by 1985 became a secretary of the Central Committee of LKSMU. In 1989–91 Matviyenko became the first secretary of the Ukrainian Komsomol and became a member of the [[Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union)|Communist Party of Ukraine]].<ref name=LIGAbAM>{{in lang|ru}}'''/(website has automatic [[Google Translate]] option)''' [https://file.liga.net/persons/anatolii-matvienko Small biography of Anatoliy Matviyenko], LIGA</ref>
As the first secretary of the Central Committee of LKSMU, in the [[1990 Ukrainian Supreme Soviet election]] Matviyenko was elected to the [[Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]], representing Bershad.<ref name=LIGAbAM/> In 1990 he supported the election of [[Vladimir Ivashko]] as [[chairman of the Verkhovna Rada]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20231227204220/https://www.rada.gov.ua/meeting/stenogr/show/4370.html БЮЛЕТЕНЬ N 27]. www.rada.gov.ua. 1 June 1990.</ref>
Matviyenko was [[Governor of Vinnytsia Oblast]] between 1996 and 1998. In February 1996 Matviyenko became a member and leader of the new [[People's Democratic Party (Ukraine)|People's Democratic Party]].<ref name=LIGAbAM/>
Matviyenko returned to the Verkhovna Rada in the [[1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election]] for the People's Democratic Party. He also was the party's faction leader. But Matviyenko left this party after accusing the party of being forced into supporting [[Leonid Kuchma]] in the [[1999 Ukrainian presidential election]]. In December 1999 Matviyenko was one of the founders and first leader of the [[Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor"]]. In February 2001 he joined the council of the anti-Kuchma [[National Salvation Committee]].<ref name=LIGAbAM/>
In the [[2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election]] Matviyenko was elected for the [[Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc]], he was placed second on its election list after [[Yulia Tymoshenko]]. From 20 April 2005 to 21 September 2005 Matviyenko was [[Prime Minister of Crimea]]. In September 2005 he resigned from the post in protest against the fact that his party members did not support the candidacy of [[Yuriy Yekhanurov]] for the post of [[Prime Minister of Ukraine]].<ref name=LIGAbAM/>
Matviyenko briefly worked for the [[Secretariat of the President of Ukraine]] (at the time [[Viktor Yushchenko]]) early 2006. In the [[2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election]] he was elected again to the Verkhovna Rada for the [[Our Ukraine Bloc]] (number 12 on its electoral list). He was reelected in the [[2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election]] for the [[Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc]] (number 22 on the list).<ref name=LIGAbAM/>
Matviyenko was registered as an independent candidate in his native Vinnytsia Oblast during the [[2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election]], but withdrew his candidacy in favour of [[Hryhoriy Zabolotny]] of [[UDAR]] who gained a seat with 46.73% of the vote.<ref name=LIGAbAM/>
In the [[2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election]] Matviyenko was again elected to the Verkhovna Rada after placing 32nd on the electoral list of [[Petro Poroshenko Bloc]].<ref name="allcountedCECIU81114">[http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/poroshenko_bloc_to_have_greatest_number_of_seats_in_parliament_327072 Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112000000/http://www.ukrinform.ua/eng/news/poroshenko_bloc_to_have_greatest_number_of_seats_in_parliament_327072 |date=November 12, 2014 }}, [[Ukrinform]] (8 November 2014)<br />[http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/233404.html People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112000000/http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/233404.html |date=2014-11-12 }}, [[Interfax-Ukraine]] (8 November 2014)<br />[http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/233426.html Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC], [[Interfax-Ukraine]] (8 November 2014)</ref><ref>{{in lang|uk}} [http://www.pravda.com.ua/articles/2014/09/19/7038339/ Full electoral list of Poroshenko Bloc], [[Ukrayinska Pravda]] (19 September 2014)</ref> In October 2016 it was reported that he had declared ownership of a private church.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/31/ukraine-stunned-vast-cash-reserves-political-elite-made-public|title=Ukraine stunned as vast cash reserves of political elite are made public|website=[[TheGuardian.com]]|date=31 October 2016}}</ref>
Matviyenko died on 22 May 2020, at the age of 67.<ref>[https://interfax.com.ua/news/general/663957.html The ex-people's deputy Anatoly Matvienko died ''Скончался экс-нардеп Анатолий Матвиенко''], [[Interfax-Ukraine]] (22 May 2020) {{in lang|ru}}</ref>
Matviyenko was married to Olha, and had two sons Viktor and Pavlo.<ref name=LIGAbAM/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20141002185323/http://dovidka.com.ua/user/?code=45507 Who is who] at the Ukraine Official. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20141002185515/http://src-h.slav.hokudai.ac.jp/ukrregions/data/218.html Biography]
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