Valentyna Melnychenko

Graphic designer, illustrator of children's books. She studied in the art studio of N. Ostashynskyi (1962-64), taught there (1965). Graduated from Kyiv Art Institute (1971; workshop of Tetyana Yablonska). The main field of work is book graphics. She collaborated with the Kyiv publishing houses "Osvita" and "Veselka", where she designed dozens of books for children.

Born: 1946-11-01 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]