VDІK (scenarna maysternya V. Chernih), 1991-1996

VGIK (Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, Moscow) - scriptwriting, 1991-1996

Stanisław Tsalyk wrote 30+ film and TV scripts and consulted many TV projects as an expert in Kyiv history.  He is a Ukrainian writer, an essayist, a local history expert, and a BBC News Ukraine history writer. 

He has been a member of the National Filmmakers Union of Ukraine (screenwriter) since 1997 and a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy since 2017.

He is a winner of Kyiv City Ivan Mykolaichuk Award (Film Arts, 2016).

A member of the Assotiation of European Journalists since 2013.

He has written several books and published 2,000+ articles and historical non-fiction essays in the leading Ukrainian and Polish media.

Stanisław Tsalyk specializes in documentary/nonfiction writing. He developed his unique literary style – finding exciting or unknown pages of the past, exploring understudied aspects, giving the exact chronology, and presenting unexpectedly convincing parallels and cascades of events. Full of various intriguing facts and surprising details, his publications are thrilling detective stories built on the principles of dramatic composition.