Matvey Yuryevich Ganapolsky (born Margolis; Russian: 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.

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.

[5] In 1990, he started working for the radio station Echo of Moscow where he launched the Bomond programme.