Valentyna Melnychenko
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

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.