Background
MEL’NICHUK, Yuriy was born on May 7, 1921 in village Malaya Kamenka, Ukraine.
journalist literary historian writer
MEL’NICHUK, Yuriy was born on May 7, 1921 in village Malaya Kamenka, Ukraine.
1948 graduate Higher Party School, Central Committee, Communist Party Ukraine. 1950 graduate Lvov University.
1938 expelled from Kolomiya High-School for distributing Communist literature 1939 first work published. From 1940 Communist Youth League work and contributed to Kolomiya newspaper “Krasnyy flag”.
During World War 2 in the Red Army. From 1948 chief ed, “Soviet Writer” Publ House. From 1951 chief ed, journal “Zhovten”’.
Deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 1962 convocation.
Board member, Ukraine Writers’ Union. Communist Party member from 1942.