| Matvey Ganapolsky | |
| Birth Name: | Matvey Yuryevich Margolis |
| Birth Date: | 14 December 1953 |
| Birth Place: | Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Citizenship: | Ukraine • Russia |
| Spouse: | Tamara Shengeliya (m. 1998) |
| Occupation: | Journalist, film director, author |
| Children: | Ekaterina Shengeliya, Alexander Ganapolsky |
Matvey Yuryevich Ganapolsky (born Margolis; Russian: link=no|Матвей Юрьевич Ганапольский, Ukrainian: Матвій Юрійович Ганапольський; born 14 December 1953 in Lviv) is a Russian and Ukrainian journalist who has contributed for Pryamiy kanal,[1] Echo of Moscow,[2] Moskovsky Komsomolets, and other media. He is also a member of the Russian Jewish Congress.[3]
Ganapolsky was born in Lviv in 1953. His mother Dina Levina was one of the last surviving eyewitnesses of the Babi Yar tragedy.[4] Ganapolsky spent his childhood in Lviv, later leaving for Kyiv and then for Moscow where he graduated from the GITIS.[5] From 1981 to 1986, he lived in Kyiv picking up a job at the local Variety Theatre. In 1990, he started working for the radio station Echo of Moscow where he launched the Bomond programme.[6] In 2016, he obtained Ukrainian citizenship.[7] As of 2020, Ganapolsky hosted a talk show named Ekho Ukrayiny on Pryamiy kanal and, until the radio station's closure in March 2022, several radio programmes on Echo of Moscow.