Ukrainian Radio Lviv, 1980s. The program “The Immortal Word” dedicated to the life and work of the Ukrainian writer Yevhen Pluzhnyk. 

Background: Yevhen Pluzhnyk was a Ukrainian poet, playwright, and translator. One of the representatives of the executed revival, a victim of Stalin's terror. The NKVD arrested him on December 4, 1934. He was accused of belonging to the so-called “nationalist terrorist organization”. In March 1935, he was sentenced to death by firing squad. Later, the sentence was changed to long-term camp imprisonment on Solovki. There the writer died of tuberculosis. He was buried in the camp cemetery. The grave has not been preserved. He was rehabilitated in August 1956. The conditional grave is at the Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv, plot 9.

The material was digitized by the team of the “House of Sound” department of Lviv Radio with the assistance of the Department of Composition and the Problematic Research Laboratory of Musical Ethnology of the Mykola Lysenko National Music Academy.

“The immortal word": Yevhen Pluzhnyk

Volyn television, 2012. The video is from the program Years and Fates. The hero of the program is Vasyl Hey, a Ukrainian poet, member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine, Honored Artist of Ukraine, author of poetry and short story collections. 

The program was created by Olha Sorochuk, editor Natalka Voitovych, cameraman Valentyn Klimovych, and edited by Alla Domanska. 

“Years and Fates": Vasily Gay

Kherson, KhODTRK “Scythia”, 2006.

The program “Pidranky” is about the representatives of the “Executed Renaissance”, writers Mykola Khvylovyi, Mykola Kulish, and Mykola Cherniavskyi.

The program uses black-and-white footage of Stalin, documentary photographs depicting writers and performances of Mykola Kulish's plays, a manuscript by writer Ivan Dniprovsky with notes about Mykola Khvylyovyi, a manuscript of Mykola Cherniavsky's will, footage of Mykola Cherniavsky's memorial house in Kherson, and the Kherson Literary Museum.

The program was prepared by the author and director Anatoliy Marushchak, cameramen Andriy Gidulyanov and Volodymyr Strokach.

Writers of the Executed Renaissance

On the video: a fragment of a chronicle from the 1980s: a pendulum, a clock, a photo of a young Pavlo Tychyna, an exhibition of the Literary and Memorial Museum-Apartment of Pavlo Tychyna; a chronicle from 1965: Pavlo Tychyna recites poems (contains Soviet propaganda content).

Recitation by Pavlo Tychyna, 1965

Запис 1970 року. 

На аудіо акторка і майстриня художнього читання Софія Федорцева декламує твір "Вечірня година" Василя Стефаника.

"Evening Hour" is read by Sofia Fedortseva

Ternopil, May 4, 2019.

Performance by writer, musician and public figure Serhiy Zhadan at the "Yi" art festival.

Serhiy Zhadan recites his own poems

The largest book market in Kyiv, Petrivka, December 13, 2016.

In the video: shopping aisles, books on the shelves, people buying books, fiction, children's literature, textbooks, certificate of inspection of children's art objects, Agreement on granting a license to Kharkiv publishing house Ranok, conclusion of the sanitary and epidemiological examination, beginning and annotation of Halyna Pahutyak's book The Kingdom.

Petrivka Book Market

In the video: Ukrainian writer Petro Savchuk reads his own humorous stories. 

Reference: Petro Mykolayovych Savchuk is a Ukrainian writer, poet, and humorist. Member of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine since 1998. In 1993, he became one of the co-founders of the Khmelnytskyi City Literary Union “Podillia”. He is called the “nightingale of the people”. Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, laureate of the regional prize named after M. Godovants and named after Ya. Galchevsky “For asceticism in state building”. 

Humorous jokes by Petro Savchuk

Kharkiv, Dergachi, 1973.

In the video: poet Viktor Tymchenko typing on a typewriter, speaking to employees of the Turbo Compressor Plant, participating in a meeting of a literary studio in Dergachi, Viktor Boyko quoting a poem, analyzing a poem, the literary editorial board of the Zorya newspaper, a literary club at the Dovzhankivska school, a poem by Tanya Khryplavets.

Literary Kharkiv region

Radio program "My Literature", April 2, 2009.

Guest of the studio is writer Olga Bashkirova. Conversation about creativity, literary preferences, the novel "The Heart of Gangster Uri", the transition to the Ukrainian language. In the program, the poet recites her own poems.

Editor: Mykola Baydyuk.

Conversation with writer Olga Bashkyrova

Volyn television, editorial office of literary and artistic programmes, 20 May 1994. A meeting of the Pervotsvit literary studio in Lutsk gymnasium No. 21. A conversation with the head of the literary studio, the leader of the Volyn Sixties, Dmytro Ivashchenko.

In the video, Dmytro Ivashchenko analyses the works of students and children reciting poetry.

Dmytro Ivashchenko: meeting of the Pervotsvit literary studio

The radio program “My Literature” was recorded on November 20, 2008. The studio's guest is Pavlo Volvach, a poet and prose writer, radio host, and the Vasyl Symonenko Literary Prize winner. 

They talk about Zaporizhzhia, his family tree, his formation as a poet, his favorite authors, his collection South East and novel Class, the role of the writer in the present, and his future creative plans. 

The poet recites his poems.

It is hosted and edited by Mykola Baidyuk.

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