Chairman of the Federation Council and member of the Security Council, representative legislative assembly St. Petersburg in Northern Fleet. Member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party. Ex-governor of St. Petersburg, former presidential plenipotentiary representative in Northwestern federal district, former Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs

Awards

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (2009) - for services to the state and great personal contribution to the socio-economic development of the city.
Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" III degree(1999) - for services to the state and many years of conscientious work.
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2003).
Order of Honor (1996) - for services to the state, great contribution to the implementation of foreign policy and ensuring the national interests of Russia, courage and dedication shown in the performance of official duty.
Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1981).
Order of the Badge of Honor (1976).
Medal “In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg” (2003).
Badge of honor “For services to St. Petersburg” (2011).
Medal of A. S. Pushkin “For great merits in the dissemination of the Russian language” (MAPRYAL, 2003).
Medal “For interaction with the FSB of Russia” (FSB of Russia, 2004).
Medal “For Military Commonwealth” (Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, 2003).
Medal “For Strengthening the Military Commonwealth” (Russian Ministry of Defense, 1999).
Medal “Admiral N. G. Kuznetsov” (Russian Ministry of Defense, 2005).
Medal “For Services to Domestic Healthcare” (Ministry of Health of Russia, 2003).
Medal “100 years of St. Petersburg University of the State Fire Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia” (Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, 2006).
Medal “For Strengthening the Customs Commonwealth” (Federal Customs Service, 2008).
Medal "For Interaction" (Russian Prosecutor's Office, 2010).
Badge “For personal contribution to the protection and improvement of civil defense” (2004).
Badge “Excellence in Border Troops” (FPS, 2003).
Medal “For Merit in the Field of Civil Aviation” (Interstate Aviation Committee, 2004).
Medal "For Merit in Ensuring National Security" (Security Council Russian Federation, 2009).
Order of Merit (Austria, 2001).
Grand Cross of the Order of Honor (Greece, 2007).
Order "For great love to an independent Turkmenistan" (Turkmenistan, 2009) - for his great contribution to strengthening Turkmen-Russian relations.
Medal "For Outstanding Contribution to Conducting national years China and Russia" (PRC, 2008).
Order of Friendship of Peoples (Belarus, 2009).
Grand Knight's Cross of the Order of the Lion of Finland (Finland, 2009).
Order St. Sergius Radonezh I degree (ROC, 2010) - in consideration of the assistance of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga, 1st degree (ROC, 2006).
Order of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga, II degree (ROC, 2001).
Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, II degree.
Order of the Holy Martyr Tryphon, II degree (ROC, 2001) - for great personal contribution to the fight against drug addiction, alcoholism and other harmful phenomena.
Certificate of Honor from the President of the Russian Federation (2010) - for active participation in the preparation and holding of meetings of the State Council of the Russian Federation.
Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (1995) - for active participation in the preparation and holding of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation (2008) - for active participation in the preparation and holding of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum and the meeting of the heads of state of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (2010).

Ranks

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1997).
Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Class I (1995).
Acting State Councilor of St. Petersburg, 1st class

Education

In 1967 she graduated with honors from the Cherkasy Medical School. In 1972 she graduated from the Leningrad Chemical and Pharmaceutical Institute. In 1985 she graduated from the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee, and in 1991 she graduated from advanced training courses for senior diplomatic officials at the Diplomatic Academy of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Is an honorary member Russian Academy arts

Childhood and early years

Valentina Ivanovna was born into the family of a military man (front-line soldier) Ivan Tyutin (as a girl she bore her father’s surname) and a costume designer in the theater workshop Irina Tyutina, and was the third child in the family. Valentina's father died early, and her mother worked two jobs at the same time.

After graduating from medical school in 1967, Valentina moved to Leningrad, where she entered the Leningrad Chemical-Pharmaceutical Institute. At the institute, Matvienko studied successfully and was engaged in social work, was a Komsomol member of the faculty, and then chairman of the institute committee of the Komsomol. In addition, she was fond of sports, played volleyball and basketball, and represented the LHFI at interuniversity competitions.

Political career

After graduating from the institute in 1972, Valentina Ivanovna was involved in Komsomol and party work. She was the head of the department, the first secretary of the Petrograd district committee of the Komsomol of Leningrad. Since 1977, she was the second secretary, then the first secretary of the Leningrad regional committee of the Komsomol. In 1984, she took the post of first secretary of the Krasnogvardeisky district committee of the CPSU of Leningrad. Two years later she began working as deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council of People's Deputies on issues of culture and education. Since 1989 she has been a people's deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. During the same period, she served as chairman of the Supreme Court Committee on Family, Motherhood and Childhood Affairs.

In May 1991, Valentina Ivanovna became the ambassador of the USSR and then the Russian Federation to the Republic of Malta.

In 1994, Matvienko joined the group of ambassadors-at-large. The following year, she took the post of director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs department for relations with the constituent entities of the Federation, parliament and socio-political organizations, and was a member of the board of the ministry.

In May 1996, Valentina Ivanovna was included in the commission under the President of the Russian Federation on family and demography issues.

On September 24, 1998, Matvienko was appointed deputy prime minister in the government. She subsequently retained this post as part of the government of Sergei Stepashin - from May 1999, the government - from August 1999, and the government of Mikhail Kasyanov - from May 2000. In the government, Matvienko oversaw a block of social issues.

On November 20, 1999, Valentina Ivanovna got into a major car accident on the Penza-Kamenki highway, during which three cars collided. As a result of the accident, First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Penza Region Vyacheslav Tarasov and his driver were killed. Matvienko received a closed craniocerebral injury. The governor of the Penza region, Vasily Bochkarev, also suffered a traumatic brain injury. Head of the emergency response team medical care The chief state sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation was appointed to the victims, who regularly informed journalists about Valentina’s well-being.

In March 2003, Vladimir Putin appointed Matvienko as the Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Northwestern Federal District. On June 24 of the same year, Matvienko announced her intention to run for governor of St. Petersburg. And on September 21, according to the voting results in the first round, Matvienko received 48.61% of the votes. Together with her, former Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Anna Markova entered the second round, receiving 15.89%. On October 5, in the second round of elections, Matvienko was elected governor, gaining 63.16% of the votes.

In June of the same year, Valentina Ivanovna was introduced to the Security Council of the Russian Federation. In May 2004, Matvienko joined the board of directors of JSC Lenenergo, and in October 2005, the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the implementation of priority national projects and demographic policy.

In December 2006, in accordance with the new procedure for appointing regional heads, Valentina Matvienko was again presented to the parliament of St. Petersburg as a candidate for governor and approved for this post.

On May 18, 2007, law enforcement agencies informed the media about the prevention. In April next year the three defendants who went to trial were acquitted by the jury.

In October 2007, Matvienko was included in the list of candidates from " United Russia"in the elections to the State Duma of the fifth convocation in St. Petersburg. After the party's victory in the elections held on December 2, 2007, it, as expected, refused its parliamentary mandate.

In the summer of 2008, at a meeting of the conservation council cultural heritage Valentina Ivanovna demanded that the builders of the Silver Mirrors residential complex, the Aurora house and the dome of the Renaissance Hotel review these and bring the buildings “in accordance with the original permitting documentation.”

In April of the following year, after the bombing of the Lenin monument at the Finlyandsky Station, Matvienko demanded that law enforcement agencies as soon as possible find the culprits. Declaring that it is not only historical, but also cultural value.

Fighting for the preservation of the cultural and historical heritage of the northern capital, Valentina Ivanovna demanded “Hyunda Hoch!” from beer restaurants, explaining that such signs are inappropriate in a city that experienced a 900-day blockade.

In November 2009, Matvienko became a member of the United Russia party. The very next day, at the 11th Party Congress, she entered the High Council parties.

On June 24, 2011, the President of Russia, at a meeting with the governors, stated that he would not object to the appointment of Valentina Ivanovna. “I believe that it would be good for the state if you headed the upper house. But the decision on this issue is not made by the president. I said my word,” the president made his decision. Four days later, Matvienko herself agreed to leave the governor’s post and head the Federation Council in the Petrovsky and Krasnenkaya Rechka districts.

On August 21, 2011, Matvienko won municipal elections in two districts of St. Petersburg and the next day became the Krasnenkaya Rechka district. The next day, the President accepted Matvienko’s voluntary resignation from the position, appointing the President’s Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Central Federal District as the acting governor of St. Petersburg. On August 31, after his confirmation as the new governor, acting. The governor signed a resolution appointing Matvienko as a representative in the Federation Council. On September 21, 2011, elections for chairman were held in the Federation Council, in which Matvienko was the only candidate. Based on the results of a secret ballot, she was almost unanimously elected speaker of the Federation Council. , Matvienko promised to increase discipline at meetings and introduce penalties against senators who do not attend meetings.

The next day, Valentina Ivanovna became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

Personal life

Valentina Ivanovna is married and has a son and granddaughter.

They met their husband Vladimir at the Leningrad Chemical-Pharmaceutical Institute. We got married when Valentina was finishing her fourth year. Her classmates recalled that she helped her husband pay off academic debts at the institute. For many years he taught at the Military Medical Academy and received the rank of colonel. By the early 2000s he retired. After that, he started making his own art near St. Petersburg, which he started back in 1988.

In 1973, the couple had a son, Sergei. He has two higher education majoring in Finance and Credit and International Economics. In the past, Sergei Matvienko was vice president of Bank St. Petersburg. In 2004, Sergei Matvienko took the post of vice president of one of the largest Russian state banks - Vneshtorgbank. In 2006, he headed the company CJSC VTB Capital (now VTB Development). Sergei has a daughter, Arina, Valentina’s granddaughter.
In her free time from work, Valentina Ivanovna enjoys painting and cooking, loves to play sports: visit gym and a swimming pool. According to some reports, he has his own account in social network"VKontakte", but about ten accounts are registered on the same network.

A woman politician today can surprise few people, and yet, there are still not many of them, and the brightest ones can be counted on one hand. In the Russian political space, women leaders were distinguished not only by their intelligence, charisma and will, but also by their beauty. One of these unsinkable figures is Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko, whose biography indicates that she is a strong and purposeful person.

The beginning of the journey

The future governor did not start her life so brilliantly. She was born at a time when the country was just beginning to recover from the shocks and trials of the war years, recovering. Mrs. Matvienko was born on April 7, 1949 in the north-west of Ukraine, in a small town called Shepetivka, in the Khmelnitsky region (formerly Kamenets-Podolsk region). Meanwhile, Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko, whose paternal nationality is Ukrainian, spent her childhood in several more big city- Cherkassy, ​​in the central part of the country.

The politician's father, Ivan Tyutin, was, of course, a war veteran and died quite early - Valentina was only eight years old. Mom Irina Tyutina remained a widow with three daughters (Valentina Ivanovna has two older sisters - Lydia and Zinaida). Mom, to some, albeit very distant, degree, was related to the theater - she worked there as a costume designer. But Valentina was not inspired by the theater and was not seduced by bohemian life. She graduated from school with a silver medal and entered a medical school in Cherkassy, ​​from which she graduated with honors.

Study and early career

On average vocational education the future politician did not stop and left for Leningrad, where she entered the Chemical-Pharmaceutical Institute. In her last year of study, Mrs. Tyutina tied the knot with Vladimir Matvienko.

Based on the results of her studies, she was assigned to graduate school. Here was the decisive moment: Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko, whose biography is full of interesting moments, could easily follow the path of a scientist. However, she was invited to work on the district Komsomol committee. She agreed, deciding that she could return to graduate school after a couple of years.

However, she returned to the student bench many years later, when she entered the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee, graduating in 1985. But the politician did not stop there either; she took advanced training courses for diplomatic workers at the Diplomatic Academy of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In addition to Ukrainian, which can hardly be called foreign, Matvienko is fluent in three more languages: Greek, English and German.

In the ranks of the party

Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko began building a career as a politician in her youth, although, of course, it is difficult to imagine that she knew what heights she would grow to. Ms. Matvienko worked in the Komsomol district committee for five years - from 1972 to 1977 - in various positions: from department head to first secretary. She worked in the Leningrad regional committee of the Komsomol, then in the Krasnogvardeisky district committee for almost ten years and rose from secretary to first secretary. Then Ms. Matvienko moved to the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council of People's Deputies, where she took the position of deputy chairman.

Before the collapse Soviet Union She managed to work as a people's deputy, in the Supreme Council she headed the Committee on Women's Affairs, Motherhood and Childhood, and Family Protection. Later she was elected to the membership of the Presidium of the Supreme Council.

Career in Russia

Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko, whose biography demonstrates this, led her career without sharp turns. She met the collapse of the Soviet Union at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. For four years she worked as ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, first of the USSR, then of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Malta. In 1994-1995 worked as Ambassador of the Russian Foreign Ministry on special assignments. In the next two years, she headed the department in the department responsible for relations with regions and government structures, and was elected to the board of the ministry. She was ambassador to Greece for another year.

In 1998, Matvienko joined the Government as deputy chairman, where she worked for five years. In 2003, she became the governor of St. Petersburg, serving in this position until 2011. She joined the ranks of United Russia in 2009.

From the governor's chair, Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko, whose biography is outlined in this article, was promoted to the Federation Council. The head of Bashkiria, Rustem Khamitov, came up with the idea of ​​recommending Ms. Matvienko for the post of head of the upper house of parliament. President Dmitry Medvedev supported this idea. Valentina Matvienko became the first woman in Russian history who took this post.

In 2012, parliament unanimously approved the so-called “anti-orphan” law. The document, which categorically vetoes the adoption by Americans of orphans from Russia, including disabled people, became a kind of response to the flaring up diplomatic war between the two powers.

Ukrainian crisis and sanctions

Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko, whose photo shows a strong and strong-willed woman, took the most active position on the issue of Crimea and its annexation to Russia. Considering her one of the main politicians responsible for violating the sovereignty of Crimea, the United States, European Union, Australia and Switzerland imposed sanctions against Matvienko.

Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko, whose nationality in no way determines her attitude to the current tense situation between Ukraine and Russia, spoke quite definitely on this matter. She supported the claim that Ukraine was forced into associative relations with the European Union at the cost of a military coup. She actively advocates for an end to the bloodshed in the southeast, while at the same time noting that one should not expect that the agreements reached in Minsk at the end of 2014 to resolve the conflict would be implemented “simply and quickly.”

Personal life

It is known that the husband of the Speaker of the Federation Council is confined to a wheelchair and is in country house in the Leningrad region. Their son Sergei is 42 years old, he received a place in senior management Bank "St. Petersburg" precisely during the period of mother's governorship. He also held and continues to hold positions of top managers at Vneshtorgbank and VTB Capital. He is also considered the owner of Imperia CJSC, which includes 28 companies involved in development, transportation, cleaning, and media activities. It is believed that it was during the period of Mrs. Matvienko’s leadership of the northern capital that her son became a dollar millionaire.

She has been repeatedly recognized by Russian media as the most influential woman in Russia. For some time now, persistent rumors have been spreading (although Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko plastic surgery, like most public women, does not admit) that she frequented cosmetologists and plastic surgeons. Matvienko claims that she owes her good appearance only to active sports. However, experienced doctors say the opposite. They note that plastic surgery was done, which is noticeable by the tension of the tissues and good condition century So, no matter what Valentina Ivanovna Matvienko claims, she has had plastic surgery and, in addition, regularly uses the services of cosmetologists.

Name: Matvienko Valentina Ivanovna. Date of birth: April 7, 1949. Place of birth: Shepetovka, Ukrainian SSR, USSR.

Childhood and youth

Valentina Matvienko was born in the small Ukrainian town of Shepetivka, and after some time the family moved to the city of Cherkasy. Valentina's father was a front-line soldier and died when the girl was studying at elementary school. Mother Irina sewed costumes for theater productions. For a small wages She alone had to raise the salaries of her three daughters, among whom Valentina was the youngest.

Valentina demonstrated good abilities to study. She graduated from school with a silver medal at the age of 17. After graduating from school, I decided to enter medical school, from which I graduated with honors. The future politician chose Leningrad University as the university medical school. After graduating from university, she was assigned to graduate school. As Matvienko herself recalls, in her younger years she was more attracted to science than to politics. However, fate decreed otherwise, and the girl was invited to work at the district Komsomol committee. It was decided to finish graduate school later.

Even in her youth, Valentina Matvienko showed herself to be a strong and purposeful person. Higher education alone was not enough for her, and she entered the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee (now RANEPA). In addition, she attended diplomatic courses at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union. Valentina Ivanovna speaks four foreign languages.

Political activity

The year 1986 was marked for Valentina Matvienko’s entry into the world of politics. Then she took the post of deputy chairman of the executive committee of the city Council of People's Deputies of Leningrad. Its tasks included regulating issues of culture and education.

Then in 1989, Valentina Matvienko became a people's deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, heading the committee for the protection of families, children and women. Matvienko held the post of head of the committee for three years, then became the plenipotentiary ambassador of the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Union, she was appointed Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Malta.

In 1994, Matvienko came home and took the post of head of the department for relations with constituent entities of the Russian Federation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

From 1997 to 1998, the politician was elected ambassador to Greece.

In 1998, Valentina Ivanovna received the position of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, which she held for the next 5 years. Her responsibilities included supervision social policy countries. She managed to maintain her post despite multiple changes in leadership.

After this, Matvienko took the post of governor of St. Petersburg. The female politician was aimed at restoring the city after the crisis of the 90s. Under her leadership, several old buildings were demolished and replaced shopping centers and other new buildings. The public reacted violently to this, blaming the new governor for the destruction of the historical appearance of the city. As governor of the northern capital, Matvienko was repeatedly subjected to harsh criticism. After serving as governor for three years, Matvienko decided to resign, but her application was not accepted, so the governor’s term was extended again.

In 2011, the candidacy of the St. Petersburg governor was proposed for the post of chairman of the Federation Council. Medvedev, who headed the state at that time, supported the candidacy of Valentina Ivanovna. And in the same year, she submitted her resignation from the post of governor of St. Petersburg, which this time was approved.

For the first time in Russian history, a woman took the post of speaker of the Supreme House of Parliament. Valentina Matvienko maintains this position to this day.

During the annexation of Crimea to the territory of the Russian Federation, Matvienko was one of the most active participants in this process, and therefore was included in the sanctions lists of the EU, Switzerland and Australia.

Matvienko was recently included in the list of 100 brightest politicians modern world and entered the ranking of the most influential women in the Russian Federation.

Personal life

Matvienko’s personal life is stable. As a 5th year student at the Leningrad Medical Institute, Valentina Ivanovna married her fellow student Vladimir Matvienko, who “was in the shadows” all his life. It is known that until 2002, Vladimir Vasilyevich worked as a teacher at the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg. However, in lately his health deteriorated greatly; on August 30, 2018, it became known that Valentina Matvienko’s husband had died. Recently, Vladimir Vasilyevich was very ill and moved in wheelchair. The couple were together for 45 years.

In 1973, the couple had a son, Sergei, who at the moment is a successful businessman. Sergei Matvienko was married twice. Sergei's first wife is singer Zara. However, the relationship between the lovers did not work out and the couple filed for divorce. From his second wife Yulia, Sergei has a daughter, Arina. Julia is a designer of youth clothing.

A busy political schedule did not allow Matvienko to become a mother of many children.

Outside of work, Matvienko likes to do household chores and enjoys cooking and drawing. One of the most influential women the world looks good at 67 years old, so the media write that the politician regularly seeks help from surgeons and cosmetologists. However, according to Matvienko herself, good appearance it is due to parental genes and regular physical activity.

Most Russians associate the surname Matvienko with the former governor Northern capital and the current head of the Federation Council Valentina Ivanovna. However, her son Sergei is no less famous. In the 90s, he became involved in a criminal case. Later, the young man came to his senses and started promoting his own business, thanks to which he managed to become a billionaire. Besides financial success Sergei Matvienko became famous for his novels with beautiful women. Previously, his wife was the popular singer Zara, and today he is married to former fashion model Yulia Zaitseva.

Family

The future billionaire was born on May 5, 1973 in the family of Valentina Ivanovna and Vladimir Vasilyevich Matvienko. He was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Sergei's parents are graduates of the Leningrad Chemical-Pharmaceutical Institute. His mother was already an active public figure. Soon after graduating from the institute, she became the head of the department, and 6 years later - the first secretary of the Komsomol district committee. Sergei's father worked as a teacher at the Leningrad Military Medical Academy. It is clear that a child in such a family should have grown up to be a highly educated person. And so it happened. Sergei Matvienko received two higher educations. Valentina Ivanovna’s son has diplomas in popular specialties: “ International economics" and "Finance and Credit".

Business

Sergey began his working career in 1992 as a manager at the Augustina investment check fund. After working there for 3 years, the young financier in 1995 founded his own company, “Northern Extravaganza”. This was followed by the founding of a society with limited liability"Architect". For some time, Sergey Vladimirovich Matvienko was listed as an employee of the banks Inkombank and Lenvneshtorg. In 2003, he was appointed vice president of Bank St. Petersburg. Valentina Matvienko’s son held this post until 2010. In parallel with this, since 2004, Sergei Vladimirovich began acting as vice president of another large financial institution- Vneshtorgbank. After 2 years he became the founder of a closed joint stock company"VTB Capital". The established company came under the management of investment projects And real estate"Vneshtorgbank". In 2010 he was appointed to the post general director"VTB-Development". Among other things, Matvienko owns the Empire company, which owns 28 subsidiaries and is engaged in activities in the field of cleaning, construction, media market and transportation. In the spring of 2012, Sergei Vladimirovich began overseeing the promising domestic e-sports project Moscow Five.

In 2011, Matvienko entered the list of the richest people in Russia. According to the rating of billionaires compiled by the domestic publication “Finance”, he took 486th place in the list of 500 possible. Experts estimated his assets at almost 5 billion rubles.

A dark spot in the billionaire's past

Today Sergei Matvienko, whose photo is presented in this article, is a successful businessman. High-ranking officials in Russia and abroad take him into account, and the best financiers in the world listen to his opinion. However, in his youth, Valentina Ivanovna’s son had problems with the law, which could not in the best possible way influence the development of his career. In 1994, young Matvienko became involved in a criminal case involving beating and robbery. Sergei at that time worked at the Augustina Foundation, and his famous mother served as the Russian Ambassador to Malta. For several years, the case materials were hidden from prying eyes, but at the beginning of the 2000s they fell into the hands of journalists and became available to the public. The information leak occurred just during the appointment of Valentina Matvienko as governor of St. Petersburg and could have been the beginning of the end of her political career. The woman was then able to retain her high position, but her son’s illegal act became the topic of many conversations.

Case details

How did it happen that an educated, wealthy guy from a decent family became involved in crime? According to the protocol, Sergei Matvienko and his friend Evgeniy Murin (the son of a famous professor at the State University of St. Petersburg) severely beat their friend A. Rozhkov, and then tried to take away valuables from him to pay off a debt that he did not return to them. A criminal case was opened against the guys after committing a crime. They faced 4 to 10 years in prison.

Sergei Matvienko was arrested on the day the crime was committed, but three days later he was released home, having taken a written undertaking not to leave. The guy partially admitted his guilt. Murin was taken into custody after Matvienko was released from the pre-trial detention center. However, not a single one of Rozhkov’s offenders received the punishment they deserved. In 1994, the case was hushed up, apparently not without the intervention of the boys’ high-ranking parents. Soon after this, Matvienko plunged headlong into own business, taking up the establishment of the Northern Extravaganza company, and his accomplice Murin went to re-educate into the army.

Meet Zara

In 2004, Sergei Matvienko became the hero of gossip columns. The businessman’s personal life began to be discussed in the media in connection with his marriage to the young singer Zarifa Mgoyan, better known by her stage name Zara. Sergei saw a girl at one of the fashion shows, and he immediately liked her exotic beauty. Brought up in strict Eastern traditions, Zara did not reciprocate Matvienko’s feelings for a long time. In order to win her favor, the man began to beautifully look after her. He attended all her performances and gave her gorgeous bouquets of flowers. But Zara was in no hurry to let him into her life. Then the businessman decided and proposed to the singer. The girl answered him with consent. Zara’s parents liked their daughter’s fiancé, and they gave the young couple their blessing. After Valentina Matvienko approved her son’s choice, preparations for the wedding began.

First marriage

The couple's wedding took place 2 months after the engagement. Matvienko insisted that he and Zara not only be married, but also married in church. For this reason, the girl converted to Orthodoxy. The young people got married in No. 1 of the city of St. Petersburg, and got married in Kazansky cathedral. The bride and groom moved around the city in a carriage. All relatives and friends of the newlyweds were invited to the luxurious celebration.

and divorce

The wedding of the singer and businessman became a real social event. However, the spouses turned out to be very different in cultural upbringing and could not get along together. In addition, the banker’s young wife was interested in the career of a pop star, and not in the birth of an heir. Sergei's friends believed that, having married an influential and rich man, Zara was counting on his financial support. However, Matvienko was in no hurry to invest money in promoting his wife, and soon after the wedding, serious conflicts began between the newlyweds. Her high-ranking mother-in-law was not delighted with Zara’s ambitions either.

A year and a half after the wedding, the couple separated. The divorce of Zara and Sergei Matvienko cost the latter 500 thousand dollars. This is exactly the amount the young singer demanded from her husband as a payoff. She invested the money she received in her own promotion. Soon after the divorce, Valentina Matvienko’s ex-daughter-in-law met official Sergei Ivanov and married him in 2008. Zara's second marriage turned out to be more successful than the first. Today the couple are raising two sons and look quite happy.

Wedding with Yulia Zaitseva

Zara’s first husband, Sergei Matvienko, did not waste any time after the divorce. Photo of his new darling for a long time were kept secret and appeared in the media shortly before the wedding. The banker’s second wife was a student of the Faculty of Philology and fashion model Yulia Zaitseva. She is much younger than her chosen one: by the time she met her future husband, she was a little over 20 years old. The spectacular blonde captivated Sergei with her beauty and intelligence. Having fallen in love with the girl, Matvienko soon proposed to her.

The young people got married in St. Petersburg on the last day of November 2008. At the time of the wedding, Julia was already four months pregnant. She was dressed in a chic snow-white dress that successfully hid her rounded tummy. Only close relatives of the newlyweds were invited to the holiday, and immediately after its end the happy newlyweds went on a romantic trip to Italy for 7 days. Returning to Russia, Sergei busied himself with his work, and his wife began preparing to defend her PhD thesis in economics.

Birth of a daughter

Late in the evening of April 6, 2009, in an elite Swiss clinic, Yulia Matvienko, Sergei’s wife, gave birth to his daughter Arina. The birth of the baby on this very day became a real gift for her grandmother-politician, because Valentina Ivanovna was preparing to celebrate her sixtieth birthday. The governor of St. Petersburg had long dreamed that her only son would give her a grandson or granddaughter, and finally her wish came true. Valentina Matvienko was one of the first to congratulate her son and daughter-in-law on the birth of an heiress. Besides her, theirs good wishes Many celebrities expressed their gratitude to the young family. But Sergei Vladimirovich did not receive congratulations from his Matvienko. Zara, who had recently gotten married for the second time, ignored the joyful event in the life of her first husband.

Details family life Sergei and Yulia Matvienko are not advertised today. The businessman’s second wife turned out to be a non-public person, so seeing her at fashionable events is almost impossible. the young woman is of little interest. She also takes care of the house, which her influential banker husband really likes.

The biography of Sergei Matvienko contains many interesting facts from his life. For example, the famous businessman celebrated his 35th birthday in the luxurious Yusupov Palace, one of the main attractions of the Northern capital. The banker then spent about 60 thousand euros on his birthday celebration.

Despite his mother’s high status, Sergei Matvienko did not shy away from the army. For two years he served in the Russian border troops on the border with Finland.

There are a lot of rumors about Sergei Matvienko on the Internet. After his divorce from Zara, false information appeared on one of the websites that he died of a heroin overdose.

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To be a son famous politician- this is a huge responsibility. Sergei Vladimirovich Matvienko has been accustomed to increased attention to his person, so he tried to act in such a way that his mother would not have to blush for him. And even though it didn’t always work out in his youth, today Valentina Ivanovna’s son has truly become respected person, which she can be proud of.

A tragedy struck the family of Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matvienko - her husband, Vladimir Matvienko, died.

The death of the senator’s husband became known from the press service of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. It was reported that in telephone conversation with the head of the upper house of the Russian parliament, the Belarusian leader “expressed deep condolences to her in connection with the death of her husband.” Lukashenko also conveyed words of support to all the relatives and friends of Vladimir Matvienko.

Later, information about the death of Matvienko’s husband was confirmed by Parlamentskaya Gazeta. It is reported that the Federation Council is “receiving condolences in connection with the death of the husband of the chairman of the chamber.”

What is the cause of death of Vladimir Matvienko?

After his retirement, the man built himself a dacha at the Gromovo station in the Leningrad region and began to further engage in science there. Over the years, his health began to deteriorate and as a result, Vladimir Matvienko ended up in a wheelchair. Perhaps a long illness was the cause of death. To last days Throughout his life, he remained true to himself, lived quietly in the village and never boasted about his famous wife and son.

What is known about Matvienko’s husband: who he is, biography

Very little is known about the head of the Council’s husband. He, unlike his wife, was not a public person. As you know, Valentina comes from Ukraine, where she graduated from school and came to St. Petersburg to become a pharmacist. Here she met her future husband. When the future politician entered her fifth year, she decided to agree to marry Vladimir. The marriage produced a son.

Little is known about the wife of the head of the upper house of parliament: he was a retired colonel. Worked in St. Petersburg military medical academy. But he couldn’t sit still and started building a house near St. Petersburg. There he spent his last time before his death.

IN recent years he became very ill. It is unknown what disease struck him, but it got to the point where the man ended up in a wheelchair. This disease ultimately led to death. For Valentina and her husband, this marriage was the only one in their lives: they lived together for 45 years. They had a son and granddaughter.

More is known about their son: he is already 43 and has had two marriages. He received an economic education, and after that he was in the management of several large banks. In addition, he owns a company that was engaged in different areas of business.

Biography of Valentina Matvienko

The biography of Valentina Matvienko begins in the spring of 1949. At that time, her family lived in Shepetivka, a Ukrainian village in the Khmelnitsky region. Father Ivan and mother Irina were not connected with political life in the country.

Some time after Valya's birth, the family leaves for Cherkassy. A little later, the father dies, and the mother of the future politician has a hard time - she herself needs to raise three daughters. Financial difficulties pushed the girl to quickly get an education and earn money, thereby helping her family.

After graduating from school, Valentina Matvienko enters medical school. Studying was easy for her and she graduated from college with honors. In order to continue to develop in the chosen direction, the girl leaves for Leningrad, where she enters a university, and after that she is assigned to graduate school.

Already at the institute, she understands that she is less interested in medicine, and more in social work. Valentina decides to radically change her educational vector and begins studying at the Academy of Social Sciences. After graduating, she takes courses for diplomatic staff to improve her skills.

How did Valentina's political career begin?

This is where Matvienko’s political growth begins. At first she was an ordinary member of the Communist Party, and with maximum perseverance and desire, Valentina became secretary of the Leningrad Regional Committee. Of course, even then many rumors appeared. The most famous of them is associated with the fact that the woman loved to drink, especially after making any important diplomatic decisions. But you can’t really blame Valentina here - at that time this was often practiced, and the woman simply did not want to be a “black sheep.”

The year 1986 was marked by the fact that a woman found herself in the world of big politics. Upon receipt new position, Valentina Matvienko is engaged in culture and education in the Soviet Union, and at the same time, she is the chairman of the Committee on Family Protection. Shortly before the collapse of the USSR, the woman was a diplomatic ambassador.

Returning to Russia, she becomes Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Here she is studying social policy almost 5 years. In 2003, Valentina Matvienko won the gubernatorial election and took the corresponding position. fell on her shoulders important task- restore former Leningrad and bring it into a modern form.

After some time, a woman is elected chairman of the Federation Council. Since then, she has received membership in the State Council of Russia, due to changed legislative acts. After the events on the territory of Ukraine, Valentina Matvienko falls under sanctions. In addition, all accounts and real estate in America were frozen. Despite this, she continues to lead political life and establish connections with Russian citizens in every possible way.