Vasili Ivanovich Bratanuk was born in the Ukraine on January 6, 1964. From 1976 to 1980 he studied at the Children's Artists School in the town of Starokocmanminov, Ukraine. From 1980 to 1984 he studied under the guidance of the famous artist K. M. Lomykin in Odessa and the well-known artistn T. N. Yablonskaya