Dobrianskyi comes from an ancient family of the Polish nobility with the coat of arms of Sas.

Dobrianskyi graduated from the Faculty of History of Yuri Fedkovych Chernivtsi State University in (1994), then worked as a history teacher in the Chortkiv region, and was secretary of the Historical and Educational Society "Memorial", a researcher at the Ternopil Regional Museum of Local Lore, the Chortkiv centralized library system, and a senior researcher at the Chortkiv Municipal Museum of Local Lore.

Dobrianskyi has written over 100 scientific publications in professional journals, as well as many local lore and journalistic articles in the press.

Research and Discoveries: Dobrianskyi has discovered over 100 archeological monuments in the territory of Chortkiv and Ternopil Raions; He located about 30 objects from defensive fortifications (settlements, castles, redoubts, lunettes) in Dobrovliany, Lysychnyky, Bedrykivtsi, Bila, Shmankivtsi, Shershenivka, Zvenyhorod, Yabluniv, Kotsiubyntsi; He has investigated about 50 previously unknown caves in Horodok, Zozulyntsi, Kasperivtsi, Chortkiv, Uhryn, Shmankivtsi and other settlements of the Ternopil Oblast.

In 2019, at the 40-meter height of the tower of the Saint Stanislaus church in Chortkiv, archaeologist, researcher of fortifications and antiquities Volodymyr Dobrianskyi discovered a detonator of a shrapnel projectile, according to its flight trajectory determined that the 1st, 3rd, 4th and 7th cannon regiments (64 guns) under the command of Ataman Kyrylo Karas during the Chortkiv offensive (June 7–28, 1919) were stationed in the woods west of the village of Shmankivtsi in the Chortkiv Raion.