Background
Martyniuk was born in 1950 in a village of Vetly (Zarohizne khutir), Lyubeshiv Raion near the border with Belarus.
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Martyniuk was born in 1950 in a village of Vetly (Zarohizne khutir), Lyubeshiv Raion near the border with Belarus.
In 1972 he graduated the Lutsk State Pedagogical Institute as a teacher of history and social studies and after that worked as a history teacher in school of Velyka Hlusha, Lyubeshiv Raion. In 1972-1976 Martyniuk attended aspirantura of the Institute of Social Studies (today – Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) receiving science degree Candidate of Sciences in history.
During that period in 1974-1975 he also served in the Soviet Army. In 1976-1981 Martyniuk worked as a scientist for the Institute of Social Sciences. In 1988-1991 Martyniuk held leading positions of the Communist Party in the city of Lviv and was a instructor of ideological department of the Communist Party of Ukraine.
With fall of the Soviet Union, in 1991-1993 Martyniuk joined the Socialist Party of Ukraine.
During that time he was a security guard in Kiev for the agrarian company "Ukrayina" and from 1992 the chief editor of newspaper "Tovarishch". With revival of the Communist Party of Ukraine in 1993, he switched to it and was the chief editor of newspaper "Kommunist" (until 1997).
In 1994 he lost in parliamentary elections placing fourth in his electoral district (Lviv Oblast). At the end of 2000 Martyuniuk returned to the faction of Communist Party of Ukraine.
In 2004 Martyniuk"s daughter, Nataliya Adamivna Martyniuk as passenger of government vehicle that was involved in a car accident in result of which died an Olympic runner-up and Ukrainian athlete Alexander Beresch.
Foreign the 2006 elections Martyniuk was second on the party list and on several occasions he held position of the first vice-speaker of the parliament. In 2007 Martyniuk headed a temporary special commission (TSC) to present changes to the Constitution of Ukraine. In 2012 with regulation infringements, he headed the session of parliament that voted for the law on languages in Ukraine.
Martyniuk chaired several parliamentary committees such as on parliamentary regulations (2002-2003) and national security and defense (2012-2014).
In 1981-1988 he worked for the Lviv regional committee of CPU, particularly as a lecturer at the House of Political Science. In 1998 Martyniuk was finally elected to the Verkhovna Rada as sixths on the party list for the Communist Party of Ukraine.
Initially a member of the Communist faction in the parliament, in 1998-2000 he was part of non-affiliated. Since that time he was elected to the Ukrainian parliament for the next four convocations and was member of Communist faction until 2014.