
- Born
- May 1, 1928
- Died
- March 21, 2022 (aged 93)
- Place of birth
- Mazanovo, Mazanovskiy rayon, Amurskiy okrug, Dalne-Vostochnyy kray, RSFSR, USSR [now Amurskaya oblast, Russia]
- Also known as
- Vitaliy Vyacheslavovich Melnikov, V. Melnikov, Мельников Виталий Вячеславович, В. Мельников