Editing Valentyn Symonenko

{{family name hatnote|Kostyantynovych|[[Symonenko]]|lang=Eastern Slavic}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Valentyn Symonenko
| image               = Валентин Симоненко.jpg
| order               = 
| office              = [[First Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine]]
| primeminister       = [[Vitold Fokin]]
| term_start          = 11 July 1992
| term_end            = 7 November 1992
| predecessor         = [[Kostyantyn Masyk]]
| successor           = [[Ihor Yukhnovsky]]
| office1             = Acting [[Prime Minister of Ukraine]]
| president1          = [[Leonid Kravchuk]]
| term_start1         = 2 October 1992
| term_end1           = 13 October 1992
| predecessor1        = [[Vitold Fokin]]
| successor1          = [[Leonid Kuchma]]
| office2             = Presidential Representative <br>in [[Odesa Oblast]]
| president2          = [[Leonid Kravchuk]]
| term_start2         = March 1992
| term_end2           = July 1992
| predecessor2        = 
| successor2          = 
| office3             = Director of reinforced concrete structures<br>factory No. 3 of the Odesazalizobeton trest
| term_start3         = December 1970
| term_end3           = April 1973
| predecessor3        = 
| successor3          = 
| office4             = [[People's Deputy of Ukraine]]
| term_start4         = May 1990
| term_end4           = June 1992
| predecessor4        = 
| successor4          = 
| term_start5         = May 1994
| term_end5           = May 1998
| predecessor5        = 
| successor5          = 
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1940|07|04|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Odesa]], [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic|Ukrainian SSR]], [[Soviet Union]]
| party               = 
| alma_mater          = [[Odesa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture]]
| spouse              = Yelena Taratuta
| children            = Serhiy (1963), Kostyantyn (1974), Yelena Vitalivna Lozhkareva
| religion            = 
| nationality         = 
| awards              = [[File:Orden of Friendship.png|40 px|link=Order of Friendship]]
| caption             = Symonenko in 2013
| native_name         = {{nobold|Валентин Симоненко}}
| native_name_lang    = uk
}}
'''Valentyn Kostyantynovych Symonenko''' ({{langx|uk|Валентин Костянтинович Симоненко}}; born 4 July 1940) is a [[Ukraine|Ukrainian]] politician and former Soviet Communist Party functionary. Between 1996 and 2011 he was chairman of the [[Accounting Chamber (Ukraine)|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.

==External links==
*{{in lang|en|uk}} [http://www.ac-rada.gov.ua/ Accounting Chamber of Ukraine] - official site

==See also==
* [[Government of Ukraine]]
* [[Prime Minister of Ukraine]]

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