National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2007.

The episode of the program "Not with the Only Bread" is dedicated to the literary heritage and an interview with the poet Dmytro Pavlychko.

On the video: an interview with Dmytro Pavlychko, demonstrating his printed publications, library; the poet's office, talking about the creative process; poets share their impressions of Dmytro Pavlychko's poetry; songs to the words of Dmytro Vasylovych.

Comments: poet, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine Dmytro Pavlychko; poets Stanislav Chernilevsky and Andriy Bondar.

Host — Teodoziya Zarivna.

Reference: Dmytro Pavlychko is one of the key poets of Ukrainian literature of the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries, whose work combined classical form (sonnet, poem) with acute historical, national and moral issues. His poetry and translations became an important tool for establishing the Ukrainian language in the world cultural context and for the formation of a modern Ukrainian literary tradition. Pavlychko played a decisive role in preserving the continuity between European classics and the Ukrainian poetic canon.

Literary Heritage of Dmytro Pavlychko

Lviv Television, Literary and Dramatic Editorial Office. The June 26, 1993 issue of the "Autograph" program is dedicated to the writer Hryhoriy Nudga on the occasion of his 80th anniversary.

On the video: Hryhoriy Nudga's apartment, his books, photographs, a recording of an interview; Hryhoriy Nudga talks about studying Ukrainian culture; the studio, the poster for the 80th anniversary celebration, the anniversary, people in the hall - Roman Kudlyk, Andriy Sodomora, greetings from Ivan Denysiuk; documents indicating Nudga's Cossack origin, family photographs; the author's story about Taras Shevchenko's friend Hryhoriy Vashkevych, about working in archives, finding old books, working with sources, about the famine of 1932–1933 and his own activities and situation in the context of the Holodomor; journalist Anatoliy Nesterenko talks about Nudga's admission to Kharkiv University, reads material from the newspaper "Literary Ukraine"; recitation by the writer's granddaughter of her grandfather's favorite poems, which he read in Kolyma; memories of Hryhoriy Nudga's meeting with Maksym Rylsky; publication of Hryhoriy Nudga's works "Republic of Cossacks"; songs "A Cossack Traveled Beyond the Danube" interpreted by Beethoven and Ray Carroll ("Cossack Cha-cha-cha").

Comments: Doctor of Philology Mykola Ilnytsky; writer Rostyslav Bratun.

Journalists — Anatoliy Nesterenko, Mykola Petrenko.

Reference: Hryhoriy Antonovich Nudga - Ukrainian literary critic, folklorist and musicologist, researcher of literary and folklore relations and the history of Ukrainian song, candidate of philological sciences, honorary member of the National Theatre of Ukraine. His scientific achievements include fundamental works on genre and anthology, including the collection "Songs and Romances of Ukrainian Poets", the monographs "Parody in Ukrainian Literature" and "Ukrainian Ballad". Repressed in 1945 and a prisoner of the Gulag, after rehabilitation he worked in Lviv, but his scientific career remained limited despite international recognition.

Writer Hryhoriy Nudga

umy Television. The program "Constellation of Slobozhanshchyna. Music is his element" from February 24, 2006 is dedicated to the composer Yevhen Karpenko.

On the video: a performance of the choir, conducted by Yevhen Karpenko; comments from colleagues about the activities and creativity of Yevhen Karpenko; an interview with the composer, talks about life in Kharkiv, writing music, musical folklore of Sumy region; collections of songs by Karpenko; archival recordings of the choir's performances in the Philharmonic.

Comments: composer, associate professor of the Department of Art History of Sumy Pedagogical University Yevhen Karpenko; candidate of pedagogical sciences Alim Krychkivskyi; Honored Artist of Ukraine Ivan Zabolotny; deputy dean of the Faculty of Arts of Sumy Pedagogical University Svitlana Kramska.

Reference: Yevhen Karpenko is a Ukrainian composer, choral conductor and teacher, whose activities are associated with the development of professional choral education, musical pedagogy and the composer school of Sumy region in the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries. His creative output includes choral works, arrangements of regional folklore, vocal and choral music for children and youth, and children's operas.

Composer Yevhen Karpenko

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1989.

The documentary film "Tell Me..." is dedicated to the memory of the Ukrainian prose writer — one of the finest masters of the 20th-century short story — Hryhoriy Kosynka (real name — Strilets). The film presents the tragic life of the writer as a representative of the Executed Renaissance, destroyed by the Stalinist regime.

On the video: archival film footage featuring Hryhoriy Kosynka; photographs from the Strelets family archive; newspapers with execution lists; fragments of the film "Politics" based on a script adapted from works by Hryhoriy Kosynka; accounts of the repression of the writer; the apartment of the Strelets family.

The film uses fragments from the motion picture "Politics" directed by Borys Savchenko.

Comments: Hryhoriy Kosynka’s wife Tamara Moroz-Strilets; writer Hryhoriy Shton; historian and local studies researcher Lyudmila Protsenko; artist and writer Yuriy Logvin; student Mykhailo Gorlovy; Ukrainian Radio announcer Petro Boyko.

Reference: Hryhoriy Kosynka (Strelets) was a Ukrainian novelist and short story writer of the Executed Renaissance era, and a member of the literary associations "Grono" and "Lanka" (MARS). He was arrested on November 5, 1934, and shot on December 15, 1934, in Kyiv — rehabilitated posthumously in 1957. His major short story collections include "On the Golden Gods", "In Rye", and "Politics", as well as the censored collection "Heart" (prepared for publication in 1933). Kosynka’s literary phenomenon is defined by a modernized impressionistic and expressionistic short story form, characterized by a fragmentary "cinematic" narrative, concise phrasing, and a focus on the traumatic experience of revolution and civil war in the Ukrainian village.

Executed Renaissance: Hryhoriy Kosynka

Chernihiv Television, 2008. The episode of the program "Two Colors" is dedicated to the Ukrainian choirmaster and teacher Lyubomyr Bodnaruk.

On the video: a walk in Chernihiv; an interview with Lyubomyr Bodnaruk, he talks about his musical career, life and the creation of ensembles in the Chernihiv region; the Bodnaruk family, an interview at home, a story about meeting his wife; Lyubomyr Bodnaruk talks about his husband; daughter's comments about her father.

Comments: choirmaster Lyubomyr Bodnaruk; wife, editor of the regional television Lyubomyr Bodnaruk; daughter, Honored Artist of Ukraine Zhanna Bodnaruk-Karpenko; son-in-law, composer-arranger Anatoliy Karpenko.

Host — Tetyana Fedorova.

Reference: Lyubomyr Bodnaruk is a Ukrainian choirmaster, conductor and teacher, Honored Artist of Ukraine, whose professional activity since 1979 has been closely connected with the musical life of Chernihiv. Founder and long-time artistic director and chief conductor of the Dmytro Bortnianskyi Chernihiv Chamber Choir, which has gained recognition at the all-Ukrainian and international levels. His contribution includes the development of academic choral performance, musical education and the popularization of Ukrainian spiritual and classical choral heritage.

Choirmaster Lyubomyr Bodnaruk

January 11, 2003, Kyiv.

A plot about the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the last commander of the UPA, Vasyl Kuk. A round dance around the hero of the day, spectators in the hall, archival photos and videos of the UPA, a speech by Vasyl Kuk.

Vasyl Kuk's 90th anniversary

Vasyl Kuk, a general in the battalion, Roman Shukhevych's deputy, took part in the program "Echoes". He talks about Shukhevych and how he remembers him. The author and host of the program is Tamara Shapovalova. 

Stepan Kuk was a Ukrainian military leader, one of the leaders of the Ukrainian national liberation movement, general-corporal, leader of the UPA-South, and commander-in-chief of the UPA from 1950 to 1954 (after the death of Roman Shukhevych). He was captured by the troops of the USSR Ministry of State Security and spent 6 years in prison without a court order. The last years of his life he lived in Kyiv. He died on September 9, 2007. 

Roman Shukhevych was born on June 30, 1907, in Lviv. Ukrainian politician, public and statesman. Member of the Galician regional leadership of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. He was an active member of the OUN, a general-corporal, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1943-1950), and head of the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (1943-1950). A fighter for Ukrainian independence in the twentieth century. Shukhevych was killed on March 5, 1950, during a special operation by the Soviet secret services to arrest him.

Vasyl Kuk - UPA's General-Corporal about Roman Shukhevych

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2002.

The episode "My Reader, Good Teacher.." of the program "Heroes of Ukraine" is dedicated to the Honored Teacher of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine Tamara Proshkuratova.

On the video: the "Hero of Ukraine" award, close-up; Cherkasy region, Drabivskyi district, school; Tamara Proshkuratova at work, demonstration of methods for teaching educational material; lessons; the Proshkuratov family, interview; photos from the family's personal archive; Tamara Proshkuratova's speech; Leonid Kuchma's speech; educational publications authored by Tamara Proshkuratova.

Comments: Director of the Drabivskyi School Olga Kravchenko; Honored Teacher of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine Tamara Proshkuratova; Head of the Drabivskyi District Department of Education O. Snitko; teacher, poet Valentyna Stupachenko.

Journalist — Lydia Lutsenko.

Reference: Tamara Proshkuratova — Ukrainian teacher and politician, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 4th convocation, the first female teacher in Ukraine, awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine for her contribution to the development of national education and the introduction of integrated teaching methods. Her professional activities combined many years of pedagogical practice, authorship of teaching aids and work in the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Science and Education.

Tamara Proshkuratova — Honored Teacher of Ukraine

Chernihiv Television. The program "Chernihiv Region in the Lives of the Famous" from June 7, 2008 is dedicated to the theologian Stefan Yavorsky.

On the video: the city of Nizhyn; old prints; museum exposition; a story about the biography of Stefan Yavorsky.

Commentary: Head of the Rare Book Museum of Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University Oleksandr Morozov.

Author and presenter — Tetyana Myrhorodska.

Reference: Stefan Yavorsky is a theologian, philosopher and preacher of the Kyiv-Mohyla tradition, who, after studying at the Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium and studies in Jesuit centers of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, taught poetics, rhetoric, philosophy and theology in Kyiv. In 1701–1721, he headed the Russian Orthodox Church as the locum tenens of the patriarchal throne, and after the creation of the Holy Synod, he became its first president, while at the same time supporting the autonomy of church authority and criticizing certain aspects of the church reform of Peter I. His legacy includes more than 300 sermons, the polemical treatise "The Stone of Faith" and a philosophical course of Baroque scholasticism with the development of logic, theory of knowledge and natural philosophical problems within the framework of the Kyiv-Mohyla intellectual culture.

Theologian Stefan Yavorsky

April 22, 2024, Kropyvnytskyi.

Video interview with meteorologist Dmytro Krychun, a participant in the 28th Ukrainian Antarctic Expedition at the Akademik Vernadsky Research Station. Shows a map, a home museum, and photos of Antarctica from his own archive.

Interview with a participant in the Antarctic expedition

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1983.

The film "I am Dovzhenko" is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of the Ukrainian film director and writer Oleksandr Dovzhenko.

On the video: biography of Oleksandr Dovzhenko; people share their impressions of the film director's work; the history of the creation of the film "Aerograd", an excerpt from the film; Dovzhenko's quotes used for propaganda; excerpts from diaries and works; footage from the construction of the hydroelectric power station; landscapes of Kyiv; photos from the filming of films, photos of Oleksandr Dovzhenko; the history of the creation of the film "Schors"; the story of Dovzhenko's love for Kyiv; the influence of Armenia on Dovzhenko's work; the history of the creation of the film "Earth", excerpts from the film; presentation of films at the international exhibition in Brussels, comments from film critics; printed publications of Oleksandr Dovzhenko, comments on his writing; Alexander Dovzhenko's speech during the German-Soviet war; black-and-white chronicles of the Second World War (contains sensitive footage).

Comments: writer Viktor Shklovsky; actor, performer of the main role in the film "Shchors" Yevgeny Samoilov; writer Oles Honchar; film director Levon Isaakyan; film director Timofey Levchuk; film director Gemma Firsova; cinematographer Valentin Orlyankin; USSR pilot-cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.

The film is dubbed in Russian. Contains elements of Soviet propaganda, footage from the leading archives of the USSR and the museum of the Alexander Dovzhenko film studio was used.

Director — Elena Mashkara.

The film "I am Dovzhenko"

2008, Vinnytsia Regional State Television and Radio Company. The documentary film "The Way to Yourself" is dedicated to the Ukrainian poet of the sixties, dissident Vasyl Stus. In the role of Vasyl Stus - Oleksandr Radko.

In the video: screensavers, interview with the poet's son Dmytro Stus, materials from the historical and documentary series "Unknown Ukraine" were used, archival video and photo materials, a monument to Stus in Vinnytsia. Commentary: Paraska Semenyuk; Semen Sinkovskiy; director of the Rakhnivska secondary school Dmytro Omelyanchuk.

Personalities