Valentyna Semenyuk-Samsonenko
Valentyna Petrivna Semenyuk-Samsonenko (4 June 1957 – 27 August 2014) was a Ukrainian politician. She served as a People's Deputy of Ukraine in the Verkhovna Rada from 1994 to 2006 and was the Chairman of the State Property Fund of Ukraine from 2005 to 2008.
She was born in Zarichchia, in the Ukrainian SSR. She began her career as a clerk and deputy of the Ruzhyn village council and led a local drama circle. After marrying in 1977, she did Komsomol work. She graduated in 1982 from Zhytomyr National Agroecological University as an economist-organizer of agricultural production. She worked as a senior accountant and economist in local offices, including the Ruzhyn district planning commission. In 1990 she became secretary of the Ruzhyn District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, serving until the party was banned in 1991; afterward she worked as a senior economist of the district plan and head of the socio-economic department of Ruzhyn.
Her personal life included two marriages: to Anatoliy Semenyuk, with whom she had two daughters (Anatoliy died in 1995), and later to Vitaly Samsonenko (2008–2012).
Death: On 27 August 2014, Semenyuk-Samsonenko’s body was found near Kyiv with a gunshot wound. The official cause was suicide. Police investigated possible murder until the case was closed in April 2017.
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