[1] Vladislav Strzhelchik born in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg, Russia).

His father, Ignatiy Petrovich was a native of Poland (Polish: Ignacy Strzelczyk) who settled in St. Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century.

In 1938 Vladislav Strzhelchik was accepted into the studio of the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater and in the same year he became an actor of this theater, where he worked all his life.

During the Great Patriotic War, Vladislav Strzhelchik was drafted into the Red Army and served in the infantry at the forefront.

He died in Saint Petersburg on 11 September 1995, and was buried on the famous Literatorskie mostki ("Writer's footworks") of Volkovo Cemetery.