Volodymyr Martynenko  Volodymyr Martynenko () (6 October 1923 – 18 April 1988) he was Ukrainian diplomat. Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR. PhD.  Volodymyr Martynenko graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (1951). In 1965–1968 – he was member of the Soviet Embassy in Canada. In 1968–1973 – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1973–1979 – Permanent Representative of the Ukrainian SSR to the United Nations. In 1979–1980 – Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR. From 18 November 1980 to 28 December 1984 – he was Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR. In 1984–1988 – senior researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine.