Ivan Vasylyovych Mykolaichuk was a Ukrainian soviet actor, producer, and screen writer from Ukraine.
Mykolaichuk was born in a village of Chortoryia in Western Ukraine during the World War II in a family of peasants. Ivan graduated from a high school of the neighboring village of Brusnytsia . In 1957 he finished the Chernivtsi Music College and in 1961 he graduated from the theaterstudio of the Chernivtsi MusicDrama Theater of Kobylyanska. On August 29, 1962 Ivan married an actress of the theater Maria Karpiuk.
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