Vitaliy Ivashchenko was born in Smila, Cherkasy region. His mother was from the family of farmers, and his father - from the family of teachers. His parents worked at the railway.
When he was a child he started to perform in military hospitals - he read poems standing on a chair. In school he was involved in a wide range of activities - singing, dancing, reading poems; besides that he succeeded in sports - graduated from high school with second senior degree in volleyball and first junior degree in basketball (being 170 cm tall).
Being already a student of KPI, he played for the second Kyiv basketball universitiy team. Later, working as a teacher, his team became a vice-champion among Ukrainian volleyball teams of university teachers.
Studying at the mechanical faculty of KPI in specialty "Metal Forming", he was the head of the group, cultural event organizer, sang in the choir, worked at the music studio, was the emcee at jazz institute, as the undergraduate was among last KPI Stalin scholars (later Lenin scholars).
After completing an interesting scientific thesis at the Institute of Materials Sciences USSR in 1960, received a job offer from the institution. But he accepted the offer of his head prof. T.M.Holubyev to work in KPI as an assistant. There were theater, young people and his own invention - the direction of scientific work related to vibration compaction of powder materials. It turned out that this direction was developed by Americans. So he had to learn English. (Not that much, but enough for reading technical texts without a dictionary). He entered the
postgraduate study and defended his thesis in time. Since 1967 - Associate Professor.
Scientific research of Vitaliy Ivashchenko are sustained by 17 invention certificates (including two pioneer ones) contained in more than 80 scientific papers (also published in USA), they were introduced into production, for which he received the sign "Inventor of the USSR" and two medals ENEA USSR. In Poltava GOK there still are hundreds of cyclone linings with silicon carbide molded by his technology.
In 1959 being a fourth-year student, Vitaly founded Variety Theater for Amateurs "VTA" in KPI, which is headed by him until today. He is the author and producer of 25 performances. Probably, it is the most long living student theater in the world. This, of course, is largely due to his younger brother Eugene Ivashchenko, associate professor at the Faculty of Physical Engineering, who has been participating in "VTA" for many years.
Theatre "VTA" has many merits and awards. It is a winner of the four-Union
amateur art festivals, winner of Kiev Komsomol award named after O.Boychenko has the honorary title "People's" (from 1977). Theater successfully touredin many cities of the Soviet Union - from Leningrad to Odessa and from Kaunas to Tomsk.Four times it performed abroad and was a member of the first Ukrainian TV show Club for the Lightheaded and Quick-witted. In 1968 the publishing house "Art" published the first book of comedic drama of V.Ivaschenko "Years of students."
Just a month after the explosion of Chernobyl, the theater controlled by V.Ivaschenko was the first among Soviet artistic groups to perform for the liquidators of Chernobyl.
In 1987, the "VTA", one of the first five in Ukraine and the only student theater was given the status of state theater studio, and five years it operated as the only comedy theater in Kiev. During this time, Vitaly wrote and set apart from variety shows and programs four full-length comedies "Come in, neighbors", "Requires jester", "How do you live?" and "Barabashka". For creative work in the theater in 1989 he was awarded the honorary title "Honored Art Worker of Ukraine".
In the late 80s V.Ivaschenko started working on national television as the author and host of the weekly program "Information and technological progress". In 1992 he began a series of weekly popular science television "Teletehnoteka" (having no analogues in the CIS ) about ready to implement scientific developments of Ukrainian scientists. The information base of such developments was established in KPI. Since 1994 he achieved broadcasting of weekly 20-minute journalistic education program "Questions - answers" (which also did not have analogues) about the nature of economic reforms in Ukraine. Experts were known scholars, government officials and senior MPs. Later it was re-formatted in daily educational and legal cycle of the First National TV Channel "The law is the law."
Vitaliy Ivashchenko - author and host of two documentary television films: "Night of Constitution's birth " (the vicissitudes of the Constitution of Ukraine adoption) and "Pride of Ukraine" (on successful economic reforms in Ukraine largest Novokramatorsk machine tool factory) and two educational television films: "The constitutional protection of human rights in Ukraine "and" Codification of private Law, the Civil Code of Ukraine. "In 2002, he created a cycle of eleven television poetic programs "Five minutes to the soul."
Vitaliy Ivashchenko began writing poems at school. But he never dreamed of becoming a poet. He wrote for the one that inspired him and a little for himself - it was a way to exhale excess emotions and thoughts. Later he wrote skits and poetry texts for theater "VTA" performances. Only reading his on the radio and geting from the audience hundreds of letters, he realized that his poetry is needed not only to him, and began to publish his poems.
First collection of poems "History of Love" was printed by Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and presented it to all women of Institute on March 8, 1993. Later thirteen collections of poetry in Russian and Ukrainian languages were published. The book of selected poems "We - Ukrainians!" received a diploma "For contribution to the development of Ukrainian poetry" at the Tenth International Book Fair "Book World - 2007".
Vitaliy Ivashchenko reared four daughters and has four grandchildren. He is always in motion: lectures, conducts laboratory works, controls the course and diploma projects. He is the curator of the academic group. So on the anniversary of numbers - not very believable. And thank God! And I want to finish his own words:
Life reduces its banality,
The lack of goals, strong feelings.
Happy are those who are in love all the life,
Those long lived, who lived as wanted!