In 1979 Melnyk graduated from the Pilot College of Civil Aviation (KLUHA) in Kremenchuk and later he studied at the Kremenchuk college of the Kharkiv Polytechnic University and the Academy of Civil Aviation in Leningrad.
Melnyk graduated from the Pilot College of Civil Aviation (KLUHA) in Kremenchuk. This was in 1979. Later he studied at the Kremenchuk college of the Kharkiv Polytechnic University in Leningrad. Later he studied at the Academy of Civil Aviation in Leningrad.