He graduated with honours from the Bogomolets Kyiv Medical Institute (1985, faculty of general internal medicine).
At the same time, he got the second education at Kharkiv Institute of Industrial & Applied Arts (1985, industrial design faculty) according to the public education system; and completed an international course in traumatology and orthopedics specialty according to the AO system (Association for the Study of Osteosynthesis) in Davos (Switzerland, early 1990s).
[7] Yuri Komelkov holds the medical patent "The method of anterior spine fusion" (Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Orthopedics).
[8] Atlant UMC (the founder and CEO of which is Yuri Komelkov) is a full-service advertising agency, founded in 1997.
A peculiarity of the house is its editions on art, comprising over 500 booklets, catalogues and albums of contemporary Ukrainian artists.
The major book project is an extensive edition of "Decorative art of Ukraine of the end of XXth century.
For the first time during the years of independence, one book managed to present the creative work of 200 best artists of the country.
The album-catalogue gained a top position in the rating "The Book of the year 2003" (won "Business card" nomination, and got the second place in Grand Prix).
The chronicle of one movie" (2007), "Kyiv — city of chestnuts" (2007), art albums "Anatoly Kryvolap.
[11] The house has published albums of Igor Gorin (1999), Olga Antonenko (2004), Eduard Belsky (2004, 2006), Maria Prymachenko (2004), Eugen Derevianko (2005).
Albums of Ivan Marchuk (2004, 2005, 2008), Oleksiy Vladimirov (2005, 2012), Anatoly Kryvolap (2006, 2008, 2009), Volodymyr Budnikov (2007, 2010) were published in different editions and series.
The series "Painting" includes 9 albums: on Anatoly Kryvolap (2006, 2008), Igor Yeliseyev (2006), Volodymyr Budnikov (2007, 2010), Ivan Marchuk (2008), Galyna Neledva (2009), Victor Ryzhikh (2009) and Matviy Vaisberg (2010).
The list of authors includes the art collector Igor Dychenko, the TV journalist Yuri Makarov, curator Olga Lopukhova.
It's the first private gallery in the capital, founded in 1988 by 5 co-founders (Olexander Milovzorov, Volodymyr Isupov, Nelli Isupova, Nataliya Pikush and Nina Lapchik), artists, who set the central focus of its activity (fine and decorative art).
Latvian daily Diena (Riga) announced Yanis Meletskis' exhibition, which was held under the aegis of Embassy of Latvia in Ukraine (1998).
The institution started hosting regular expositions, participating in international projects, organizing annual plein-air events and publishing artists' catalogues.
2004 was a starting point for a series of grand projects characterized by a synthesis of publishing and gallery components.
The event was highly appraised by the Director-General of UNESCO, Kōichirō Matsuura, in his letter to the President of Ukraine.
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, there was created an art project entitled "Bridge" — two like-named exhibitions in Kyiv and Paris, at UNESCO headquarters (France, 2006).
The first artistic plein-air of the Triptych, entitled "The Glass House" (2003) was held in the Crimea, at Cape Aya.
The second and the third plein-air events were held in Sozopol (Bulgaria, 2005–2006), in the territory of the former ancient Greek colony Apollonia Pontica.
[32] After the presentation of the album-catalogue "Ivan Marchuk", the Triptych gallery hosted the largest exhibition of the artist's works, which occupied four floors of the Ukrainian House (2005).
For instance, Den wrote about varnishing days of such artists as Petro Bevza,[34] Katerina Kosyanenko,[35] Mykola Muravsky,[36] Yana Katsuba,[37] Vladyslav Shereshevsky,[38] Oksana Stratiychuk,[39] Ivan Marchuk.
[48] The exposition activity of the gallery is also mentioned in foreign catalogues, published in Poland (Lublin),[49] Turkey (Istanbul).
The collection comprises pictures, sculptures, graphics and fine and decorative art objects.
Painting is represented by monocollections of Anatoly Kryvolap, Ivan Marchuk, Petro Lebedynets, Matviy Vaisberg, Volodymyr Budnikov, Vladyslav Shereshevsky, Victor Ryzhikh, Galyna Neledva, Sergiy Gai, Borys Buryak, Olexander Zhivotkov, Mykola Zhuravel, Olexander Babak, Oleksiy Litvinenko, Eduard Belsky, Oksana Stratiychuk, Roman Romanyshyn, Oleg Denysenko, Mykhailo Demtsu, Borys Egiazaryan, Vachagan Norazyan.
The collection also includes monocollections by sculpturers Olexander Sukholit (over 40 works), Oleksiy Vladimirov, Mykola Bilyk.
There are also objects of arts made of ceramics, metal, wood, textile (tapestries, carpets, batik) and glass.