Lviv, November 22, 1985. Lviv Television Studio. "lviv" program. City of Books" about the history of book printing in Lviv from the 16th century to the 1980s. The broadcast is in Russian and contains elements of Soviet propaganda.

At the beginning of the program, it is about Lviv as a book city and the history of the printer Ivan Fedorov. It tells about Ivan Fedorov's "Primer" of 1574, its reprint edition, a memorial plaque to the printer and Ivan Fedorov Street are shown. How Zapasko talks about the study of Ivan Fedorov's activities in Lviv and Ostroh, the peculiarities of his graphics, the traditions of the Ukrainian handwritten book, the Lviv "Primer", scientific publications and new research. The process of restoration of old prints is shown.

Separately, it is told about the "Lviv Tablature of the 16th century." — handwritten collection of Renaissance music from 1555 from the funds of the Scientific Library of Ivan Franko Lviv State University. It is about the edition of the original and the transcription for string orchestra. The next part is dedicated to the Ivan Franko Literary Memorial Museum and the lifetime publication of the collection "Withered Leaves". Next, memorial tablets on the Town Hall building are shown and an underground communist typography is told. The work of the workshop is shown in the Atlas book factory. The final part is dedicated to Oleksandr Tvardovskyi's poem "Vasyl Tyorkin. A book about a fighter." 

The following worked on the transmission: V. Hlynchak, V. Zuevskyi, I. Stasik, R. Sayenko, O. Stolbova, B. Melnyk, A. Ochkopas, P. Kozak, M. Kurdus, A. Tsysyk, M. Khvoynytskyi, P. Rozhok, V. Nesterenko, P. Butenko, Yu. Durniak, S. Pyatov, B. Yasnyskyi. Poems are read by Oleg Batov.

History of book printing in Lviv, 1985

First National, 2008. The story highlights the presentation of the facsimile edition of the Peresopnytskyi Gospel, tells about the historical significance of the original, outlines the exact reproduction (even traces of wax stains have been preserved) and the differences of the copy, and describes the work on it.

On the video: Peresopnytsia Gospel; pages of the Peresopnytsia Gospel; signature of Hetman Ivan Mazepa; facsimile edition of the Peresopnytsia Gospel; stand-up by journalist Anastasia Stanko; Metropolitan of the UOC MP Volodymyr (Sabodan); sisters of mercy; presentation of the facsimile edition.

Commenting: publisher, director of the enterprise "Publishing House "ADEF-Ukraine" Alla Istomina; President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk.

Anastasia Stanko and Alexander Samoilov worked on the plot.

Peresopnytsia Gospel: facsimile edition

Chernivtsi Television, 1998. The episode of the program "First There Was a Word" is dedicated to the visit of Austrian artists to Chernivtsi and an evening of Ukrainian-Austrian poetry readings.

On the video: program screensavers; synchronisation by teacher Valentyna Shvets; the building of the former hotel "Zolotyy Lev"; the main building of Chernivtsi National University named after Yu. Fedkovych; Jewish People's House; buildings of Chernivtsi; monument to Olga Kobylyanska; hall of the Chernivtsi Regional Memorial Museum of Volodymyr Ivasyuk; editorial office of "Bukovynskyi Journal"; their own poems were read by: poet Halyna Tarasyuk (and also in German translated and performed by Alois Voldan); poet, professor of the Department of Ukrainian Literature Borys Bunchuk; writer and journalist Myroslav Lazaruk; writer Svitlana Kyrylyuk; Austrian poets Gudrun Sadenauer, Birgit Müller-Wieland (in Ukrainian translated and performed by Yuriy Andrukhovych); a musical number was performed by literary critic and author Larysa Berezhan; among those present were poet and writer Vasyl Kozhelyanko; poet and translator Halyna Petrosanyak.

Commentators: Austrian professor of Slavic studies, Ukrainian studies, popularizer of the Ukrainian language, literature and culture Alois Voldan; professor of the ChNU Anatoliy Volkov; event visitors: Tetyana Hryhoriychuk; Lesya Buimister.

Contemporary Ukrainian and Austrian Poetry

2006, Channel One (now Public Broadcasting).A report on the 13th Publishers’ Forum and initiatives aimed at promoting a culture of reading. These include public service announcements in which well-known figures will promote reading, as well as public readings featuring Svyatoslav Vakarchuk and Bohdan Stupka as part of the Forum. To make the classics more accessible to readers, publishers are offering updated editions of their works.

In the video: the book fair; visitors; pavilions; readers; public readings featuring Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, co-organizer of the public service announcement idea, and actor and director Bohdan Stupka; among the visitors is local historian and tour guide Petro Radkovets.

Comments: Oleksandra Koval, president of the “Publishers’ Forum” NGO; singer Svyatoslav Vakarchuk; Vyacheslav Busel, director of the “Perun” publishing house.

The authors of the story are Olga Krupnik and Anatoliy Kyrychuk.

Publishers' Forum and the Promotion of Reading

1992, National Company of Ukraine. The episode of the program "Archives... Destinies... People..." devoted to the archival heritage of Volodymyr Vynnychenko.

On video: materials of Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine about the writer, documents from the KGB archives, his photos from the different periods, of his wife Rozaliia; edition of his book "Testament for the fighters for freedom"; frames with Symon Petliura and Mykhailo Hrushevskyi; self-portrait of the writer; album of his paintings; fragments of his correspondence and diaries are cited; Central Council building; Saint Sophia Cathedral; Red building of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv are portraited.

Moderator: Serhii Halchenko, Head of the Manuscripts Department of Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

The Archives of Volodymyr Vynnychenko


Chernihiv Television, 2002. The program "Chernihiv Region in the Lives of the Famous" is dedicated to the Ukrainian writer and screenwriter Yevhen Gutsalo.

On the video: photos of Yevhen Gutsalo, comments by Hryhoriy Samiylenko, biography of the writer; memoirs of Stanislav Rep'yakh.

Comments: Dean of the Philological Faculty of the Gogol State University, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor Hryhoriy Samiylenko; Chairman of the Council of the Chernihiv Organization of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine Stanislav Rep'yakh.

Author — Tetyana Myrhorodska.

Reference: Yevhen Gutsalo is a Ukrainian writer, poet, journalist, screenwriter, one of the brightest representatives of the generation of the sixties. In his work, the leading themes are man and nature, folk morality, the spiritual world of the Ukrainian village and national historical memory.

Writer Yevhen Gutsalo

Transcarpathian Television, 2002. The program "Knot of Memory" is dedicated to the poet Yuliy Borshosh-Kumyatsky.

On the video: Uzhgorod, views of Yuliy Borshosh-Kumyatsky Street, houses, gardens; a publication with the poet's poetry, the theme of the poems, views of Uzhgorod; the apartment of the Borshosh-Kumyatsky family, an interview with his son Yuliy, talks about his father, his hobbies, and his creative path.

The poet's son Yuliy Borshosh-Kumyatsky comments.

Host — Rostyslav Dzhumurat.

Reference: Yuliy Borshosh-Kumyatsky is a Ukrainian poet, teacher and public figure of Transcarpathia, a member of the Writers' Union of Ukraine since 1957. Author of numerous poetry collections, in whose work the leading place is occupied by the themes of the native land, folk culture, spirituality and historical fate of Transcarpathia. He is one of the most prominent representatives of Transcarpathian Ukrainian literature of the 20th century.

Poet Yuliy Borshosh-Kumyatsky

Lviv Television, 2004. The episode of the program "Literary Lviv" is dedicated to the work of the Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk.

In the video: landscapes of Lviv, Ivan Franko Park, Ukrainian publications of Olga Tokarczuk; comments of researchers and translators about the work and Ukrainian translation of Olga Tokarczuk's creative work; interview with Olga Tokarczuk; speech by Yuri Andrukhovych.

Comments: writer Olga Tokarczuk; translator Viktor Dmytruk; literary critic Olga Hnatyuk; Harvard University professor Hryhoriy Grabowych; writer Yuriy Andrukhovych.

Host — Lyubov Janas.

The video contains a technical defect.

Reference: Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish writer, essayist and psychologist, laureate of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature and the International Booker Prize. The author of novels and collections of essays, translated into dozens of languages ​​of the world, one of the most influential representatives of modern Polish literature.

Writer Olga Tokarczuk

ODTRK "Ltava". The December 22, 2003 issue of the program "Meeting for You" is dedicated to an interview with the poet, Honored Artist of Ukraine Hanna Chubach.

On the video: landscapes of Myrhorod; interview with the poet Hanna Chubach, who talks about her life and creative path; conversation about the genre of romance; fragments of concerts and poetry evenings.

Commented by: poet Hanna Chubach.

Author — Inna Didyk.

Reference: Hanna Chubach is a Ukrainian poet, children's writer, Honored Artist of Ukraine, member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine since 1971. Author of dozens of poetry and children's books, whose works have been translated into many languages ​​of the world and set to music by Ukrainian composers.

"Meeting for You": Poet Hanna Chubach

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1992.

The film "I Don't Remember the Death of the First..." is dedicated to the Ukrainian poet, satirist, author of the "singing" genre Stepan Rudasnky.

On the video: screensavers, shots of Yalta, the writer's apartment-museum in Crimea, a tombstone at the Polikuriv Memorial, celebrations on the occasion of the satirist's birthday in the village of Khomutyntsy, Vinnytsia region (competition between teams, tug-of-war, meeting guests with a hib-salt), a monument to Rudansky, a garden, a church, people dancing to Jewish music, the "Rudanska" bus stop, students reading the poet's poems, a bandura player playing and singing a song, Kamyanets-Podilskyi, St. Petersburg, an apple orchard, a celebration at the stadium, people in Cossack costumes, reading a poem by Rudansky "Ahmet III and the Cossacks" (letter to the Turkish Sultan from the Cossacks).

Stepan Rudansky — author of "Singing Speeches"

From the personal archive of Yaroslav Kedzor.

November 18, 1988, Lviv.

On the video: Vasyl Stus Memorial Evening, Les Kurbas Theater; the host of the event, dissident Iryna Kalynets, an introductory speech about Vasyl Stus; a literary and artistic composition based on poems by Vasyl Stus, Vasyl Symonenko, Lina Kostenko performed by the theater's actors; Iryna Kalynets reads a note from the audience and answers questions.

Iryna Kalynets: Vasyl Stus Memorial Evening

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1993.

The film "There I Learned to Love People..." is dedicated to the Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Stelmakh.

On the video: excerpts from the writer's works are heard, a voiceover tells about the author, shots of the village of Dyakivtsi, Vinnytsia region, the Literary and Memorial Museum of Mykhailo Stelmakh, children read the writer's poems, the last bell, laying flowers at the Stelmakh monument, a village hut where the writer often visited, sons Yaroslav and Dmytro Stelmakh talk about their father, the author recites his poems, an archival chronicle with the writer.

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