Kryzhanivsky was born in a family of civil servants on 24 January 1940 in Vinnytsia.

Kryzhanivsky was nominated as a candidate for People's Deputies by the labor collective "UkrNDI proektstalkonstruktionsia".

On 19 March 1990, he was elected a member of parliament, a People's Deputy of Ukraine of the Verkhovna Rada, in the 2nd round, with 48.80% of the votes, and 10 applicants.

On 12 September 1994, he was dismissed as ambassador by President Leonid Kuchma[10] That same year, he became the executive director of MP "Plastic", based in Kyiv.

[11] In January 2015, in an interview with journalists, he criticized the annexation of Crimea to Russia and stated that all ethnic Russians should be expelled from the region.