Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko (Russian: Валенти́на Ива́новна Матвие́нко, b. April 7, 1949) is a Russian politician, a member of United Russia party. She has been the governor of Saint Petersburg since she was elected in 2003. She is currently the only woman to lead a federal subject of Russia.
Valentina Matviyenko was born in Shepetivka in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast of Western Ukraine, USSR. In 1972 she graduated from Leningrad Institute of Chemistr...
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Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko (Russian: Валенти́на Ива́новна Матвие́нко, b. April 7, 1949) is a Russian politician, a member of United Russia party. She has been the governor of Saint Petersburg since she was elected in 2003. She is currently the only woman to lead a federal subject of Russia.
Valentina Matviyenko was born in Shepetivka in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast of Western Ukraine, USSR. In 1972 she graduated from Leningrad Institute of Chemistry and Pharmaceutics and until 1984 held various leadership positions within the Komsomol organization.
In 1985 she graduated from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Academy and became a party official in Leningrad's municipal government. In 1984 - 1986 she was the First Secretary of the Krasnogvardeysky District Committee of the Party.
Matviyenko was elected as a people's deputy to the Supreme Soviet and headed the committee on women, family and children affairs.
Between 1991 and 1998 Matviyenko served in the diplomatic service and held...
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