Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSRIn office
1980–1984Prime MinisterOleksandr LiashkoPreceded byGeorgiy ShevelSucceeded byVolodymyr KravetsPermanent Representative of Ukraine to the United NationsIn office
1973–1979Preceded byMykhailo PolyanychkoSucceeded byVolodymyr Kravets Personal detailsBorn
(1923-10-06)October 6, 1923
Gorbuliv, Cherniakhiv Raion, Volhynian Governorate, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet UnionDiedApril 18, 1988(1988-04-18) (aged 64)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet UnionAlma materTaras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Volodymyr Nykyforovych Martynenko (Ukrainian: Володимир Никифорович Мартиненко; 6 October 1923 – 18 April 1988) was a Soviet and Ukrainian diplomat. He served as Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations. Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR.

Volodymyr Martynenko graduated from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (1951).

From 1965–1968 he was a member of the Soviet Embassy in Canada.

From 1968–1973 he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR.

From 1973–1979 he was the Permanent Representative of the Ukrainian SSR to the United Nations.

From 1979–1980 he served as 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.^[1]

From 1984–1988 he was a senior researcher at the Institute of History of Ukraine.

• Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

• LIBYAN SEEKS EXPULSION OF ISRAEL FROM U.N.
• UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL OFFICIAL RECORDS THIRTY-NINTH YEAR 2542nd MEETING: 25 MAY 1984 NEW YORK
• Diplomacy in the Former Soviet Republics James P. Nichol Greenwood Publishing Group, 1.01.1995 – 244.
• Soroka D. I. Historical retrospective of Ukraine's cooperation with the United Nations