Kharkiv, 1984. Kharkiv television studio.

A program about the Kharkiv Turbine Generator Plant (Turboatom) on the occasion of the company's 50th anniversary. The plant's management talks about the specifics of production and the effect of small work shifts, while mechanic Ivan Gorbatko talks about the work of his team.

The video shows the building, the territory, the workshops and offices of the plant, and the equipment. 

Reference: The Kharkiv Turbine Generator Plant, now JSC Ukrainian Energy Machines, was commissioned in January 1934. It produced gas, hydraulic, and later steam turbines of various capacities for nuclear, thermal, and hydroelectric power plants. It carries out the full production cycle: from turbine design to manufacturing, installation, and maintenance. 

Turboatom turns 50!

Volyn Television, 1997, Novovolynsk. Program “Gorno. Today is Miner's Day.”

In the video: cityscapes, concert excerpts, mine, territory, working face, miners, coal, miners leaving the mine. Comments: Oleksandr Gorbunov, director of Mine No. 9 “Novovolynsk”; M. Solovyov, head of section No. 2; miners about their work and working conditions; V. List, foreman. 

The program was produced by: Lyubov Arsenik, Oleksandr Maryshchuk, Iryna Paliyivets, Galina Yankovska. 

Part of the interview is in russian. 

Miners' Day in Novovolynsk

Sumy TV. The program "Romny. Image of the End of the 20th Century" from September 14, 1997 is dedicated to enterprises in the city of Romny, Sumy region.

On the video: landscapes of Romny, history of the city, City Day, flag and coat of arms of the city; Romny shoe factory "Talan", production, workers at the machines; Romny curtain and tulle factory, workshops, work processes, sewing shop for the production of finished tulle products; OJSC "Romny Whole Milk Substitute Plant", plant director Grigory Negreba; shop, dairy products, production lines, packaging of butter, ice cream, cakes.

Commented by the general director of the company "Romny Curtain and Tulle Factory" Oleksandr Lakyza.

Enterprises of Romny, 1997

January 16, 2004, Kyiv.

In the video: Kyiv Tobacco Factory, production shops, "Reemtsma-Ukraine" sign; Ukrainian and German flags; equipment, workers at work, various plans; tobacco processing, conveyor, tobacco drying; cigarette packaging; packaging creation process, "Prima" inscription; warehouse, cigarette boxes.

Kyiv Tobacco Factory

Sumy TV. The program "Porcelain Miracle" from December 29, 2005 is dedicated to the Sumy Porcelain Factory.

In the video: landscapes of Sumy, the Transfiguration Cathedral, the Holy Resurrection Cathedral, residents of the city; Sumy temples on the products of the Sumy Porcelain Factory, various products, various plans; production workshops of the enterprise, workers inspecting products, packaging; various workshops, inspection of dishes, artistic painting of products.

Commented by the director of JSC "Sumy Porcelain Factory" Svitlana Romanyuk and leading artist Volodymyr Shevchenko.

Reference: Sumy Porcelain Factory is one of the largest enterprises of the porcelain industry of Ukraine, founded in 1963 and specializing in the production of a wide range of porcelain products. In the 1990s and 2000s, the plant went through restructuring and an economic crisis, but restored production capacity and became one of the leading Ukrainian porcelain manufacturers.

Sumy Porcelain Factory

Ivano-Frankivsk region, Kalush city, 1977. Lviv television studio.

The film “Giant of Chemistry” about the industrial enterprise “Chlorvinyl,” its products, and the daily work of its employees. 

The video shows: a view of the mountains, the building, the territory and workshops of the enterprise, quarries, trucks, potassium mining, fields, forest, a bus with the inscription “Chemist,” employees, equipment, a meeting room, people at a table, a laboratory, streets and buildings of the city.

Reference: Products from potash deposits in the vicinity of Kalush have been mined since the mid-19th century, and industrial enterprises specializing in this field have been operating in the city ever since. The Chlorvinyl Production Association, named after the 60th anniversary of October, was established in 1975 on the basis of the Kalush Chemical and Metallurgical Plant, the Potash Plant, and the Dombrovsky Quarry. Today, it is Ukraine's leading petrochemical company, Karpatnaftochim LLC.

Documentary film “The Giant of Chemistry”

Rozdil Village, Lviv Region.

On the video: Rozdil Ceramic Plant, factory equipment from different plans; the process of producing red facing bricks, raw materials, mixing; brick packaging, warehouse, work processes.

Rozdil Ceramic Plant

April 15, 2010, Kyiv.

In the video: Kyiv Jewelry Factory, workshop, gold and platinum bars on a shelf; master demonstrates precious metals; worker at the machine, gold smelting furnace, ingot manufacturing process; gold processing, master at work; blanks for rings, ruby ​​setting process, diamond packaging.

Kyiv Jewelry Factory

Kharkiv, 1974. Kharkiv television studio, television film ‘Bread and Metal’.

The film is about the dependence of agricultural success on technology, about the advanced workers of the Kharkiv Tractor Plant: steelworker, Hero of Socialist Labour Fedir Amelin, blacksmith Mykhailo Kalashnikov, fitter-assembler Mykola Onovchenko, and engineer-technologist Mykhailo Yashchenko. Farmer Oleksandr Zamlilyi talks about the importance of using modern technology in agriculture and the cooperation between workers and farmers; mechanic and distinguished innovator of Ukraine Oleksandr Bondarenko talks about the work of the T-150 tractor in the field.

The video shows wheat fields, a combine harvester, workshops at the Kharkiv Tractor Plant, tractor production, and tractors in the field.

The film uses black-and-white documentary footage of manual field work, the construction of the Kharkiv Tractor Plant, Grigory Petrovsky's speech to the people of Kharkiv, the release of the first tractors, and a group photo of the workers who produced the 1,000th tractor.

The video is in Russian and contains elements of propaganda. 

Bread and metal

Lviv region, city of Drohobych, 1963. Lviv television studio.

The story ‘The Youth of a Centennial Hero’ is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Drohobych oil refinery. 

The video shows: houses on the outskirts of the city, a river, black-and-white photographs and drawings from previous years of the plant's operation, an inscription on one of the plant buildings ‘100 years of the plant’, the territory, installations, workers, workshops, instruments, equipment, offices, a laboratory, a drawing workshop, a stand ‘Plant Innovators,’ photographs of employees, an inscription on a tank ‘Accept, Motherland, our labour gift!’, a freight train.

Reference: The Drohobych Oil Refinery is the oldest oil refining enterprise in Ukraine. After oil deposits were discovered in Drohobych and the surrounding villages in the mid-19th century, small oil refineries began operating in the region, and in 1863, a new large refinery, Altman and Gottlieb, was founded in Drohobych. It was a joint-stock company, named after its owners. A hundred years later, in 1963, the Drohobych Oil Refinery Association was formed on its basis, which was later renamed the Drohobych Oil Refinery. Today it is PJSC ‘Oil Refining Complex Halychyna’.

Drohobych Oil Refinery: 100 years

Vinnytsia Television, 2006. Program “Vinnytsia Airport — Please Land!”

In the video: a rusty sign, neglected premises, an airplane on the runway, employees at their workplaces, a map, equipment. Interviews: Oksana Podorvan, chief accountant (in Russian); Mykola Lemishchev, deputy director for aviation security (in Russian); Anatoliy Gudyma, flight manager; Raisa Patyk, security guard; Viktor Marchuk, airport director. 

Vinnytsia Airport

28 August 2008, Kyiv.

The video shows the Teatralna metro station of the Kyiv Metro. Transition to the station, people on the escalator, information board, tunnel, train, transition to the Zoloti Vorota station, bust of Lenin.

Reference: Teatralna metro station was opened on 6 November 1987 on the Sviatoshynsko-Brovarska line of the Kyiv Metro. Located in the very centre of the capital, next to the National Opera and the Frank Theatre, it is connected by a passageway to Zoloti Vorota station. After the Revolution of Dignity, Soviet decorations, including the bas-relief of Lenin, were dismantled here.

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