Early Life
Mykola Melnyk was born and grew up in the town of Stavyshche in the Kyiv Oblast of Ukrainian SSR, which is now Ukraine. Upon his school graduation, Melnyk worked as a sports coach, and later as a telephone station technician in Stavyshche, later moving to Zaporizhia for a construction job. In 1972-74 he served his conscript service in the Soviet Armed Forces.
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