Valentyn Symonenko
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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.
Valentyn Symonenko | |
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Валентин Симоненко | |
 Symonenko in 2013 | |
| First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
| In office 11 July 1992 – 7 November 1992 | |
| Prime Minister | Vitold Fokin |
| Preceded by | Kostyantyn Masyk |
| Succeeded by | Ihor Yukhnovsky |
| Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine | |
| In office 2 October 1992 – 13 October 1992 | |
| President | Leonid Kravchuk |
| Preceded by | Vitold Fokin |
| Succeeded by | Leonid Kuchma |
| Presidential Representative in Odesa Oblast | |
| In office March 1992 – July 1992 | |
| President | Leonid 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 | 4 July 1940 Odesa |
| Spouse | Yelena Taratuta |
| Children | Serhiy (1963), Kostyantyn (1974), Yelena Vitalivna Lozhkareva |
| Alma mater | Odesa State Academy of Construction and Architecture |
| Awards |  |
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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