The future artist was born in 1950 in the city of Myrhorod, Poltava Oblast. His mother, Nadiya Semenivna, instilled in him a love of dance. She worked as a teacher, and it was she who introduced her son to the school’s dance club. By the end of first grade, young Volodymyr had already taken the stage for the first time as a participant in an amateur performance. When the boy turned 10, his friend and classmate Valentin Kolesnik suggested they take part together in the play “The Gypsy Aza,” which was being staged at the city’s House of Culture. This event proved decisive: both friends went on to dance with the dance troupe affiliated with the Mirgorod House of Culture. Thanks to the talented teacher Albert Frolov, Volodymyr Chornobyl chose to pursue a lifelong career as a choreographer.
Later, the young man studied at the Zhytomyr Cultural and Educational College under the guidance of the distinguished instructors Lyudmila and Ivan Skoryk. He completed his military service there in Zhytomyr, at the garrison Officers’ Club. After his discharge, he enrolled at the Kyiv State Institute of Culture. His teachers included Ukraine’s leading choreographers—Mykhailo Motkov, Oleksandr Kolosok, and Mykola Tregubov. During his student years, Volodymyr Volodymyrovych had the good fortune to meet Pavlo Virsky in person and witnessed performances by the finest dance companies from Ukraine and around the world on the capital’s stages.
After graduating from the institute, the young specialist was assigned by the state to the Kamianets-Podilskyi School of Culture (now a college) as an instructor of choreography, where he tirelessly
