Anatoliy Matviyenko

Anatoliy Serhiyovych Matviyenko (, 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.

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 (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.

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.

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. In October 2016 it was reported that he had declared ownership of a private church.

Matviyenko died on 22 May 2020, at the age of 67.

Matviyenko was married to Olha, and had two sons Viktor and Pavlo.