Background
Matviyenko was born on March 22, 1953, in city of Bershad, Vinnytsia Oblast, to a working-class family.
Matviyenko was born on March 22, 1953, in city of Bershad, Vinnytsia Oblast, to a working-class family.
In 1975 he graduated the Lviv Agrarian Institute, Agrarian Mechanization faculty.
In 1975-1977 Mativiyenko worked as a mechanic in Bershad.
From 1977 he was an activist of Communist Youth League (LKSMU) and by 1985 became a secretary of the Central Committee of LKSMU. In 1989-1991 Matviyenko became the first secretary of the Ukrainian Communist Youth League and became a member of the Communist Party of Ukraine. In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Mativiyenko was again elected into parliament. After placing 32nd on the electoral list of Petro Poroshenko Bloc.