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Valentyn Symonenko

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Valentyn Symonenko
Валентин Симоненко
Symonenko in 2013
First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office
11 July 1992 – 7 November 1992
Prime MinisterVitold Fokin
Preceded byKostyantyn Masyk
Succeeded byIhor Yukhnovsky
Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine
In office
2 October 1992 – 13 October 1992
PresidentLeonid Kravchuk
Preceded byVitold Fokin
Succeeded byLeonid Kuchma
Presidential Representative
in Odesa Oblast
In office
March 1992 – July 1992
PresidentLeonid Kravchuk
Director of reinforced concrete structures
factory No. 3 of the Odesazalizobeton trest
In office
December 1970 – April 1973
People's Deputy of Ukraine
In office
May 1990 – June 1992
In office
May 1994 – May 1998
Personal details
Born (1940-07-04) 4 July 1940 (age 84)
Odesa
SpouseYelena Taratuta
ChildrenSerhiy (1963), Kostyantyn (1974), Yelena Vitalivna Lozhkareva
Alma materOdesa State Academy of Construction and Architecture
Awards

Valentyn Kostyantynovych Symonenko (Ukrainian: Валентин Костянтинович Симоненко; born 4 July 1940) is a Ukrainian politician and former Soviet Communist Party functionary. Between 1996 and 2011 he was chairman of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine.

In 1983–1992 he served as mayor of Odesa, then as the First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine in the Fokin government, and for period of 10 days in October 1992 (2–12 October) ex officio acted as a Prime Minister of Ukraine upon the resignation of Vitold Fokin and the appointment of Leonid Kuchma to the office. Symonenko became the first "acting Prime Minister".

Symonenko has been elected to the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) for three sequential terms (11, 12(1), and 13(2) convocations).

In 1996 he was elected as the Chairman of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine. In 2003 he was re-elected for the second 7-year term. The Accounting Chamber executes control over revenues and expenditures of the State Budget of Ukraine on behalf of the Verkhovna Rada.

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