Yevgeny Matveyev was born in the village of Novoukrainka in the Mykolaiv Governorate of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kherson Oblast, Ukraine) to father Semyon Kalinovich Matveyev, a Red Army serviceman was stationed in the region at the end of the Russian Civil War, and mother Nadezhda Fyodorovna Kovalenko, a local peasant woman.
Yevgeny Kafelnikov | Yevgeny Yevtushenko | Yevgeny Khrunov | Yevgeny Nesterenko | Yevgeny Dementyev | Yevgeny Brusilovsky | Yevgeny Bezruchenko | Yevgeny Zavoisky | Yevgeny Zamyatin | Yevgeny Yasin | Yevgeny Tolstikov | Yevgeny Shaposhnikov | Yevgeny Semyonovich Kuznetsov | Yevgeny Rein | Yevgeny Primakov | Yevgeny Pepelyaev | Yevgeny Miller | Yevgeny Malinin | Yevgeny Kychanov | Yevgeny Krinov | Yevgeny Dragunov | Yevgeny Chichvarkin | Yevgeny Burachyok | Yevgeny Akulov | Oleh Matveyev | Boris Matveyev (athlete) | Artamon Matveyev |