Oleksandr Maselsky was born on 7 December 1936 in the village of Khmelove, Kirovohrad Oblast,[1] to the family of a collective farmers, to his father, Stepan Ivanovych, and his mother Okeksandra Artemivna (nee Zaporozhets).

Maselsky worked as the chief agronomist of the Kommunist collective farm until 1966, after which, on the advice of his father-in-law and to improve his knowledge and skills in the field of agriculture, he decided to continue his studies and entered graduate school at the Kyiv Research Institute of Agriculture.

In that research institution, Malelsly began working with such famous scientists as Oleksandr Hlyantsev, Borys Huryev and Ilya Polyakov.

In October of the same year, Maselsky became the director of the Krasny Oktyabr state farm in the Balakleysky district of the Kharkov region, which was administered by the V. Ya.

Yuryeva, Alexander Maselsky nevertheless defended his thesis on the topic “Corn yield depending on the area of nutrition and fertilizers when grown on gray podzolized soil” for the degree of candidate of agricultural sciences.

[1] In 1973, Maselsky was appointed to the post of second secretary of the Balakliysky District Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, where he dealt with agricultural issues.

Sudak, who was constantly afraid that he might be dismissed from his post, hoped that instead of Ilchenko, an inexperienced and unprepared functionary would be appointed chairman of the district executive committee.

Between March 1983 and January 1991, he was the chairman of the executive committee of the Kharkiv Regional Council of People's Deputies.

From 21 May - 29 October 1991, Maselsky was the Vice Prime Minister of the Ukrainian SSR (Ukraine) (for agriculture) in the government of Vitold Fokin.

Only people close to him knew about the deterioration in Maselsky’s health, who associated this with the stress experienced during the aftermath of the accident at the Dikanevsky wastewater treatment plant in June 1995.

A few days before his death, Maselsky gave an interview to the Panorama publication, and on the day of his death, on April 12, until 14:00, he led a meeting of the Kharkov Regional Council (at which he spoke), after the end of the meeting, he worked for some time in his office in the Gosprom building, in At 17:00, he went to one of the districts of the Kharkiv region in a company car, and died on the way back home.

"atherosclerosis of the aorta, complicated by rupture of its wall and hemorrhage into the cavity of the heart sac against the background of hypertension."

On April 4, 1996, President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma issued a Decree “On organizing the funeral of the chairman of the Kharkiv Regional Council, Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration A. Maselsky”, according to which the “State Commission for Organizing the Funeral of the Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional Council, Chairman of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration Oleksandr Stepanovych Maselsky” under the chairmanship of Yevhen Marchuk, which also included: Volodymyr Baibikov, Vasyl Durdynets, Oleh Domino, Anatoliy Epifanov, Valeriy Efremov, Mykola Zaludyak, Pavlo Lazarenko, Valeriy Pustovoitenko, Vasyl Ryabokon, Volodymyr Semynozhenko, Stanyslav Sivokon, Mykola Sukhomlin, Dmytro Tabachnyk, and Vasyl Tatsiy.

[6] At the farewell ceremony, among those present were: President Kuchma, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Oleh Dyomin, Kharkiv Mayor Yevhen Kushnarev, Chairman of the Kirovograd Regional State Administration Mykola Sukhomlin, Governor of the Belgorod Oblast Yevgeny Savchenko, Head of the Kharkiv Military Garrison Volodymyr Tolubko and Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bogodukhovsky Nicodemus.

One of the nephews of Oleksandr was Stepan Maselsky, who from 2004 to 2005, like his uncle, headed the Kharkiv Regional State Administration.

[7] "I have always worked, in recent years - as an entomologist at the sanitary and epidemiological station, I ran the household myself, raised Ira.