VOLODYMYR HUBA was born on December 22, 1938 in Kyiv into a family of teachers. His musical education began at the R. Glier Kyiv Music School (1957, piano department, class of Lidia Shur) and continued in the composition department of the Kyiv Conservatory (he began his studies in Borys Liatoshynsky’s class, was expelled, later got reinstated, and completed his education in 1979 as a part of Andrii Shtoharenko’s class, when he was already a member of two creative unions, the Filmmakers’ and the Composers’).

While studying in Liatoshynsky’s class, Huba took an interest in the twelve-tone technique and became close with the circle of Kyiv avant-garde artists. His first attempts at composition (then still as a student) were praised in Halyna Mokreieva's much-discussed article “A Letter from Kyiv,” published in 1962 in the Polish magazine Ruch Muzyczny. Mokreieva noted the “remarkable talent” of the novice composer and stressed that of all of Liatoshynsky’s students, who demonstrated “a high level of craftsmanship and freshness of ingenuity,” he achieves “the best results in his work on mastering the twelve-tone technique.”

For a short time, Huba worked as a teacher in music schools in Kyiv and as a music editor for Ukrainian television and at the Ukrainian Studio of Chronicle and Documentary Films. After joining the Union of Filmmakers in 1970, he switched to creative work.

He was awarded the following prizes: Mykola Lysenko Prize, Vasyl Stus Prize, and Oleksander Dovzhenko Prize; he was also awarded the titles of the Honored Artist of Ukraine (1995) and People's Artist of Ukraine (1999).