Vasily Melnyk was born in Ukraine on January 5, 1954 in the Transcarpathian region from Malaya Roztoka, Irshavsky district, into a family of ordinary peasants. After studying, he moved to work in Zhytomyr, where I currently live.
Participant of regional and republican exhibitions from 1983 to 2004. Personal: Union of Artists of Zhytomyr, 1996; Kmitovsky Museum of Fine Arts in the Zhytomyr region, 2004.
Educated at the Uzhgorod School of Applied Arts in 1970-1974. , faculty - artistic processing of metal. Teachers: drawing-Petretsky V.V. painting-Petka J. sculpture-Garapko I.I.