Adam Martyniuk

Adam Martyniuk
Martyniuk in 2012
People's Deputy of Ukraine
3rd convocation
In office May 12, 1998 – May 14, 2002
Constituency	Communist Party of Ukraine, No.6
4th convocation
In office May 14, 2002 – May 25, 2006
Constituency	Communist Party of UkraineNo.6
5th convocation
In office May 25, 2006 – November 23, 2007
Constituency	Communist Party of Ukraine, No.2
6th convocation
In office November 23, 2007 – December 12, 2012
Constituency	Communist Party of Ukraine, No.6
7th convocation
In office December 12, 2012 – November 27, 2014
Constituency	Communist Party of Ukraine, No.8

Adam Martyniuk is a Ukrainian politician, one of leaders of the Communist Party of Ukraine who on several occasions served as the first vice-speaker of the Ukrainian parliament.

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 1972-76 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 1974-75 he also served in the Soviet Army.

In 1976-81 Martyniuk worked as a scientist for the Institute of Social Sciences. In 1981-88 he worked for the Lviv regional committee of CPU, particularly as a lecturer at the House of Political Science. In 1988-91 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 1991-93 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).