 Poroshenko's father, (1936–2020), was an engineer and later government official who managed multiple factories during the Soviet rule in Ukraine.Little is known about his mother Yevguenia Serguéievna Grigorchuk (1937–2004) but a Ukrainian newspaper said she was an accountant, who taught at a vocational and technical school of accounting.He also spent his childhood and youth in Bendery (Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic, now under "de facto" control of the unrecognized breakaway state Transnistria), where his father Oleksij was heading a machine building plant.