Valeriy Oleksandrovych Korotkov (Ukrainian: Валерій Олександрович Коротков; 28 October 1951 – 22 July 2021) was a Ukrainian oligarch, businessman and football president for FC Desna Chernihiv and FC Veres Rivne.
[3] He was the owner of the football club of the higher league (Vyshcha Liha) "Veres".
During the 1994 Ukrainian presidential election, Korotkov was a candidate's authorized representative of Leonid Kuchma.
[8][9][10][11][12] In 1990s, for some time Korotkov financed meals for all high school students in Rivne.
Korotkov died in hotel Lisboa, Bissau from heart attack which may have been influenced by kidney disease.