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Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko
Валентина Матвиенко
Birth at
7 April 1949
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A major Russian politician and statesman, Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko was born in 1949 on April 7 in Ukraine in the city of Shepetovka. After graduation, she moved to Leningrad and entered the Leningrad Chemical and Pharmaceutical Institute. Then he studied at the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU and courses of improvement of senior diplomatic workers at the diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR. Even during her studies at the institute,
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A major Russian politician and statesman, Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko was born in 1949 on April 7 in Ukraine in the city of Shepetovka. After graduation, she moved to Leningrad and entered the Leningrad Chemical and Pharmaceutical Institute. Then he studied at the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU and courses of improvement of senior diplomatic workers at the diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR.
Even during her studies at the institute, she began to conduct active social and political activities, held senior positions in the party organization - she was the first secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the Komsomol, the first secretary of the Krasnogvardeisky District Committee of the CPSU. In 1989, she was elected People's Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, headed the Armed Forces Committee for Women, Family Protection, Motherhood and Childhood. An important stage in the political career of Valentina Matvienko was the work in the Russian Foreign Ministry, where she held the post of director of the department.
In 2003, she won the election of the Governor of St. Petersburg, in this post she has been working until now. /