Mykola Ivanovych Tseluiko

Mykola Ivanovych Tseluiko (, also 'Tseluyko'; 3 July 1937, Slatyne – 31 October 2007, Kherson) was a Ukrainian painter and textile artist.

Early life Tseluiko was born and spent his early childhood in Slatyne, Derhachi Raion, Kharkiv Oblast. Tseluiko was the third and youngest child in the family. After his father went missing in the World War II (1944), his family moved to Lviv, where they lived on Parkova (Park) Street.

Studies From 1959 to 1965, Mykola Tseluiko studied in the Lviv State Institute of Applied and Decorative Art (now Lviv National Academy of Arts), specializing in the artistic design of fabrics.

Under the Communist system, patterns could only be brought into production when they had been reviewed and approved by the artistic council first in Kyiv by the Ukrainian Institute of Light Industry, and then in Moscow by the All-Union Institute of Light Industry. These reviews were held three times per year. Tseluiko created "hundreds of square meters of sketches", and "hundreds of thousands of square meters of fabrics" were made by the Kherson Cotton Combine from his designs.

Tseluiko also won several of the Textile Industry Scientific and Technical Community's competitions.

From the 1960s, the Kherson Cotton Combine produced most of the country's textiles. Tseluiko used to joke that wherever he visited, there was always an exhibition of his works on display.