Eduard Matviychuk

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Leonidovych and the family name is Matviychuk.

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]

Eduard Matviychuk
Едуард Матвійчук
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	(1963-04-27) 27 April 1963 (age 62) Velyki Luchky, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Political party	Party of Regions

A member of the Party of Regions, Matviychuk was appointed Governor of Odesa Oblast on 18 March 2010. Key issues during his tenure included education, such as the distribution of school busses, as well as disagreements with the federal government, which resulted in his transfer from Governor to advisor to the President in November 2013, a position he remained until President Yanukovych was overthrown in February 2014, triggering the pro-Russian unrest and the Russo-Ukrainian war.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]}

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Matviychuk successfully ran as an independent candidate in the 133rd electoral district, which includes parts of the city of Odesa, winning in a crowded field with 24.20% of the vote. He did not seek re-election in 2019, and was succeeded by Artem Dmytruk.^{[1][10][11][12]}