# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mykola-melnyk
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:06:36.365Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mykola-melnyk"
name: "Mykola Melnyk"
slug: "mykola-melnyk"
description: "Mykola Mykolayovych Melnyk, also known as Nikolai Melnik, was a Soviet-Ukrainian pilot and liquidator hero known for his high-risk helicopter mission on the dangerously-radioactive Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant building immediately after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster."
tagline: "Hero of the Soviet Union (1953–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Nikolai_Melnik.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1953-12-17"
deathDate: "2013-07-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.33
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.18103333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Мельник Микола Миколайович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D8%A7_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "ميكولا ميلنيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA"
    title: "Мікалай Мельнік"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Melnyk"
    title: "Mykola Melnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Melnyk"
    title: "Mykola Melnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Melnyk"
    title: "Mykola Melnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola%C3%AF_Melnik"
    title: "Nikolaï Melnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mykola_Melnyk"
    title: "Mykola Melnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%AF%B8%EC%BD%9C%EB%9D%BC_%EB%A9%9C%EB%8B%88%ED%81%AC"
    title: "미콜라 멜니크"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myko%C5%82a_Melnyk"
    title: "Mykoła Melnyk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Melnik"
    title: "Nikolai Melnik"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA%2C_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Мельник, Николай Николаевич"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B0_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA"
    title: "Никола Мелник"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1546646"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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