Arkadiy Kornatskiy

Arkadiy Oleksiyovych Kornatskyi (; born July 7, 1953) is a Ukrainian politician, public figure and civil servant. He is a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc and was a People's Deputy of the 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada from the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election until the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election. For the 2019 election the Central Election Commission of Ukraine refused to register him.

Kornatskyi was a candidate for President of Ukraine in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential elections. He came 37 out of 39 candidates, with 4,494 votes (0.02%).

Early life Kornatskyi was born on July 7, 1953, in , which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1970 he started working as a handyman at the collective farm "Lenin's Way" in his home town, before entering military service in the Soviet Army from 1972 to 1974. In 1980 he graduated from the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia in Moscow with a degree in international law and was certified as an English translator. His son, Pavel, works at the Russian Foreign Ministry.