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Natalya VitrenkoUkrainian politician
Date of Birth: 28.12.1951
Country:  Ukraine |
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Biography of Natalia Vitrenko
Natalia Vitrenko is a Ukrainian political figure who was born on December 28, 1951, in Kyiv, Ukraine. She comes from a large family and spent her childhood in Donbass before returning to Kyiv in 1965.
Education and Early Career
Vitrenko attended the Accounting Faculty of the Kyiv Institute of National Economy (KINE) in 1969. During her time at the university, she was a Lenin Scholarship recipient, a member of the KINE Komsomol Committee, and a deputy of the Council of Workers' Deputies of the Soviet district of Kyiv. She was involved in scientific student work and won several republican and international competitions for scientific student research. In 1973, Vitrenko graduated from the institute with honors and received a placement in the postgraduate program at KINE, where she studied from November 1973 to November 1976.
Academic and Political Career
From August to November 1973, Vitrenko worked as a senior economist in the Department of Transport Statistics at the Central Statistical Bureau of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1974, she joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). In March 1977, Natalia Vitrenko defended her candidate's dissertation. From June 1977 to September 1979, she worked as a junior and then senior researcher at the Research Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of the State Planning Committee of the Ukrainian SSR. From 1979 to 1989, she served as an associate professor at the Department of Statistics at KINE. In 1989, she became a senior researcher at the Council for the Study of Productive Forces of Ukraine, where she worked until 1994.
In April 1991, Vitrenko delivered a report titled "Privatization and Socialist Choice" at the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, sharply criticizing the privatization process in the country. She actively participated in the development of the economic section of the new edition of the Communist Party of Ukraine's program in 1991. After the ban on the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU), Vitrenko actively participated in the creation of the Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU). She became the main developer of the party's program documents, the head of the party's theoretical center, and the editor of the party's journal "Vybor" (Choice). In May 1993, she published a monograph titled "Social Infrastructure of Ukraine: Evaluation of the Level and Prospects of Development."
On April 5, 1994, Vitrenko defended her doctoral dissertation on "Regional Problems of Social Infrastructure Development." She prepared an economic program, "Main Directions of Ukraine's Economic Formation in the Crisis Period," which was adopted by the parliament on June 15, 1994. From June 1994 to January 1995, Natalia Vitrenko worked as an advisor on socio-economic issues to the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Oleksandr Moroz. In December 1994, she became a member of the Ukrainian Parliament representing the Konotop electoral district (Sumy Oblast). In December 1995, Vitrenko accused the SPU of "compromising with the authorities" and was expelled from the party. In April 1996, together with Vladimir Marchenko, she created the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (PSPU), which declared its goal as "restoring Soviet power."
In the presidential elections of 1999, Vitrenko ranked fourth, receiving 10.97% of the votes. In 2002, she led the electoral bloc "Natalia Vitrenko Bloc," which received 3.22% of the votes and did not overcome the electoral barrier. She participated in by-elections in various regions of Ukraine, including Cherkasy and Melitopol, but was not successful. In the 2004 presidential elections, she ranked fifth, receiving 1.53% of the votes.
Vitrenko has been married twice and is currently divorced. She is a mother of three children.
