Valentyn Symonenko

Валентин Симоненко

Symonenko in 2013

First Deputy Prime Minister of UkraineIn office
11 July 1992 – 7 November 1992Prime MinisterVitold FokinPreceded byKostyantyn MasykSucceeded byIhor YukhnovskyActing Prime Minister of UkraineIn office
2 October 1992 – 13 October 1992PresidentLeonid KravchukPreceded byVitold FokinSucceeded byLeonid KuchmaPresidential Representative
in Odesa OblastIn office
March 1992 – July 1992PresidentLeonid KravchukDirector of reinforced concrete structures
factory No. 3 of the Odesazalizobeton trestIn office
December 1970 – April 1973People's Deputy of UkraineIn office
May 1990 – June 1992In office
May 1994 – May 1998 Personal detailsBorn (1940-07-04) 4 July 1940 (age 83)
OdesaSpouseYelena TaratutaChildrenSerhiy (1963), Kostyantyn (1974), Yelena Vitalivna LozhkarevaAlma materOdesa State Academy of Construction and ArchitectureAwards

Valentyn Kostyantynovych Symonenko (Ukrainian: Валентин Костянтинович Симоненко; born 4 July 1940 in Odesa) 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.