# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mykhailo-melnyk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T23:18:39.907Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mykhailo-melnyk"
name: "Mykhailo Melnyk"
slug: "mykhailo-melnyk"
description: "Mykhailo Spyrydonovych Melnyk was a Ukrainian historian, poet, human rights activist, dissident and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. He was an author of a book about the history of Ukraine, which was confiscated by the KGB."
tagline: "Ukrainian historian, poet, and human rights activist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/25/Mykhailo_Melnyk.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1944-03-14"
deathDate: "1979-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.58
  momentum:             3.999999999999999
  historical:           5.269762666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykhailo_Melnyk"
    title: "Mykhailo Melnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83_(%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%B1%D8%AE)"
    title: "ميخايلو ميلنيك (مؤرخ)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mychajlo_Melnyk"
    title: "Mychajlo Melnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB%D0%BE_%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Мельник Михайло Спиридонович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%B5hhailo_Meln%C3%B5k"
    title: "Mõhhailo Melnõk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%AE%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%88_%D9%85%D9%84%D9%86%DB%8C%DA%A9"
    title: "میخایلو ملنیک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q25442343"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump