Eduard Matviychuk
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Eduard Matviychuk | |
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Едуард Матвійчук | |
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| 6th Governor of Odesa Oblast | |
| In office 18 March 2010 – 8 November 2013 | |
| President | Viktor Yanukovych |
| Preceded by | Mykola Serdyuk |
| Succeeded by | Mykola Skoryk |
| People's Deputy of Ukraine | |
| In office 2014–2019 | |
| President | Petro Poroshenko Volodymyr Zelensky |
| Preceded by | Hennadiy Trukhanov |
| Succeeded by | Artem Dmytruk |
| Constituency | 133rd district |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 27 April 1963 |
| Party | Party of Regions |
Eduard Leonidovych Matviychuk (Ukrainian: Едуард Леонідович Матвійчук; born 27 April 1963) is a Ukrainian politician, who served as Governor of Odesa Oblast from 2010 to 2013, and later a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019.[1]
Matviychuk was born on 27 April 1963 in Velyki Luchky, which was then part of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union.[2] Initially, he was a student at the local Uzhhorod trade‑culinary vocational school, before switching to become a student at Uzhhorod National University, where he graduated from in 1986 with a degree from the Faculty of Physics.[2] Afterwords, he worked as a physics teacher at the Yasinianska Secondary School, and then at Uzhhorod secondary school no. 8.[2] In 1989, he became an inspector of customs for the city of Chop, and by 1995 had become a senior inspector.[2]
He then served as the president of the Verkhovyna Football Club for a year, before becoming editor-in-chief of the Euro-Center newspaper, which was produced by Euro-Press LLC in Uzhhorod.[3]