Grinchenko (née Kirilyuk) Maya Nikolaevna (2 May 1945, Dnipropetrovsk) — engineer.

Maya Grinchenko was the daughter of Faina Kirilyuk (née Levitina) (b. 1915, Klimovichi, Mogilev Region) and Nikolai Kirilyuk (b. 1918, Dnipropetrovsk).

She graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Industrial and Economic Technical School with a specialisation in office administration.

From 1962 to 1963, she trained and worked as an embroidery worker at the factory named after the 20th CPSU Congress in Dnipropetrovsk. From 1964 to 1968, she worked as a turret lathe operator and archivist at the “Yuzhnoye” Design Bureau. In 1968–1969, she was a typist-secretary at the Dnipropetrovsk City Executive Committee.

From 1969 to 1970, she worked as a records clerk at the Kirov District Military Commissariat in Dnipropetrovsk. In 1971–1972, she was a typist-secretary at the Association of Bus Stations. From 1972 to 1976, she worked as a senior technician in an experimental design bureau in Dnipropetrovsk.

Between 1976 and 1980, she held the position of senior laboratory assistant and engineer at the Mining Institute. From 1980 to 1986, she worked as a typist and receiving clerk at the “Rīgas Ekspresis” production association. In 1985, she also worked as a typist at the Zaprybsnab Administration.

In her marriage to Grigory Grinchenko (b. 1943, Poltava Region), she had a son, Vladimir Grinchenko (b. 1967, Dnipropetrovsk). She later married Miliy Volotsky (b. 1938, Dnipropetrovsk). Between 1982 and 1986, Maya Grinchenko repeatedly applied for permission to emigrate to Israel.

Faina Kirilyuk (née Levitina) (b. 1915, Klimovichi, Mogilev Region) — mother
Nikolai Kirilyuk (b. 1918, Dnipropetrovsk) — father
Grigory Grinchenko (b. 1943, Poltava Region) — first husband
Vladimir Grinchenko (b. 1967, Dnipropetrovsk) — son
Miliy Volotsky (b. 1938, Dnipropetrovsk) — second husband