Career
He started out at a sports school and his first coach was his father Leonid Kolesnyk. Vadym Kolesnyk graduated from the Sumy State Pedagogical University of Makarenko. He has a son, Vladyslav (b1997).
Currently he is the assistant coach of Football Club Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka in the Ukrainian First League.
After he retired from playing football in 2003, he was invited to work as an assistant coach in 2003. On 5 November 2011, Kolesnyk became the new interim head coach of Football Club Naftovyk-Ukrnafta Okhtyrka in the Ukrainian First League.