Victor Veretennikov

Victor Oleksandrovych Veretennikov (Віктор Олександрович Веретенников; 22 August 1940 – 15 March 2023) was a Ukrainian businessman, writer, screenwriter, journalist & politician. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and later an independent, he served in the Verkhovna Rada from 1990 to 1994 and again from 2002 to 2006.

Veretennikov died in Dnipro on 15 March 2023, at the age of 82.