His stories reveal unknown pages of Ukrainian and Kyiv history and life of famous historical figures.
He explores daily life at different historical times rather than political or military conflicts and actively works with published and verbal memoirs, archived documents, newspapers, and photos.
He developed his unique literary style – finding exciting or unknown pages of the past, exploring understudied aspects, giving the exact chronology, and presenting unexpectedly convincing parallels and cascades of events.
Full of various intriguing facts and surprising details, his publications are thrilling detective stories built on the principles of dramatic composition.
His historical guide "Евпатория: Прогулки по Малому Иерусалиму" (Yevpatoria: Walks in Little Jerusalem, in Russian) (2007) was republished several times and became a bestseller in Crimea.
Stanislav Tsalyk wrote the chapter entitled "Місто багатьох барв" (City of Many Colours) as a self-guided walking tour about the history of ethnic communities in Kyiv.
Хроніки довоєнного відпочинку" (Herakles Had Rest a Long Time Ago: Chronicles of Pre-War Summer Holidays, in Ukrainian) is about Crimea and its people shortly before Russia's annexation.
Stanislav Tsalyk contributed three articles: "Решилися Мы взять под державу Нашу полуостров Крымский" (We Decided to Take the Crimean Peninsula under Our State, in Ukrainian) "Росії заборонили мати флот на Чорному морі" (Russia was Prohibited to Have its Fleet on the Black Sea, in Ukrainian), "Дерев'яний паркан відділяв чоловічий пляж від жіночого" (A Wooden Fence Dividing Men’s Beach from the Women’s One, in Ukrainian).
Sketches, in Ukrainian, 2020, co-writer) is a learning aid for 10th grade students attending secondary schools in Ukraine.
— Białystok, Tomasz Brański, 2024 (in Polish, a comic book based on the article by Stanisław Calik "Nikt w Warszawie tak nie śpiewał" (No one in Warsaw has ever sung like that), Tygodnik Powszechny, nr 32 (3865), 6 sierpnia 2023 r., s.56-59) The book "Таємниці письменницьких шухляд.
In 2016, he wrote the script of the full-length documentary From Babi Yar to Freedom (89’, directed by Oleg Chorny, Pronto Film, 2017).
This is the first film about the hard life of Anatoliy Kuznetsov (1929-1979), a writer who fled from the USSR to the UK to publish his book Babi Yar: A Document in the form of a Novel in the full uncensored version.
Being fascinated by the past of cities and towns, Stanislav Tsalyk travels a lot in Ukraine and other countries.
He particular likes Kyiv and guides his original historical walks discovering unknown pages of the past and people living in the city.