Lviv, 2021. Interview with Petro Halushchak, great-grandson of Ivan Franko and grandson of his youngest son. He talks about his family, traditions, family values, and upbringing, and shows memorial exhibits, sports equipment belonging to family members, and photographs. 

Reference: Petro Halushchak was born on September 12, 1954, in Lviv. He studied at Lviv School No. 4 with an in-depth study of English, then at the Lviv Polytechnic Institute. He worked as a design engineer, engineer, manager, and deputy manager of various enterprises. He was involved in community organizations. He was married to Olesia Yarosh. The couple had six sons. 

Throughout his life, Petro Halushchak promoted the legacy of his great-grandfather. He died on August 27, 2025. It was on this day in 1856 that Ivan Franko was born.

Petro Halushchak: Ivan Franko's great-grandson on family traditions

2017, Ternopil Regional Directorate of the National Public Broadcasting Company of Ukraine. Programme from the series ‘Musical Kaleidoscope’. 

The video features an interview with Olga Sumskaya, Honoured Artist of Ukraine and actress. Opening credits, excerpts from the TV series ‘Roksolana’ and the cartoon ‘Come Back, Kapitoshko!’. Hosts: Iryna Demchuk, Bohdan Bodenchuk.

Interview with Olga Sumskaya

2015, National Television Company of Ukraine. The programme ‘Vsevolod Nestayko. Born in Childhood’ is dedicated to the life and work of the Ukrainian writer.

The video features: opening credits, children with the author's books, comments about the writer, archival video and photo materials, children in the studio of the National Radio Company of Ukraine, excerpts from the video recording of Vsevolod Nestayko's birthday, excerpts from the films ‘Toreadors from Vasukivka’ and ‘Unit with Deception’.

The writer was discussed by: writer Lesya Voronina; NRCU announcer Larysa Tarasova; translator Tetiana Polyakova; director of the publishing house ‘A-ba-ba-ga-la-ma-ga’ Ivan Malkovych; editor-in-chief of the National Publishing House of Children's Literature ‘Veselka’ Iryna Boiko; his daughter, candidate of philological sciences Olena Maksymenko; and artist Anatoliy Vasylenko.

Author: Tetiana Zhitska.

Vsevolod Nestayko. Born in childhood

1996, National Television Company of Ukraine. An episode of the scientific and educational programme ‘Svichado’ dedicated to Ukrainian archaeologist, poet and researcher of Scythian antiquities Boris Mozolevsky.

The video features opening credits, a stand-up by the host, footage from excavations, the work of the expedition, archival photographs and letters, with voice-over narration by Honoured Artist of Ukraine Oleksandr Zadniprovsky. Boris Mozolevsky is discussed by: Kateryna Bunyatyan, candidate of historical sciences; Volodymyr Bilozir; Yuriy Boltryk, candidate of historical sciences; and Serhiy Skoryi, Ukrainian archaeologist, doctor of historical sciences, and professor.

Author: Nadiya Dovgych.

Reference: Boris Mozolevsky (1936–1993) was a Ukrainian archaeologist and poet, researcher of Scythian culture. In 1971, he discovered a golden pectoral in the Tovsta Mohyla burial mound, which became one of the most significant archaeological finds in Ukraine. He was the author of numerous scientific works and a populariser of history.

Archaeologist Boris Mozolevsky

June 5, 2005, Chernivtsi region.

The video shows events dedicated to the 85th anniversary of Ukrainian composer, conductor and choirmaster Stepan Sabadash. Chernivtsi Central Cemetery, a visit to the graves of Illia Sabadash and Nazarii Yaremchuk, Central Street in Novoselytsia, monument to Taras Shevchenko, Sabadas' meeting with officials,  meeting with relatives and friends in the village of Vanchikivtsi, visit to the church and cemetery, composer's family home, children greeting the composer at school, railway station in Chernivtsi, Chernivtsi-Kyiv train.

Stepan Sabadash: events marking his 85th birthday

2008, National Television Company of Ukraine. The programme ‘The Fatal Woman Marko Vovchok’ is dedicated to the writer's difficult life and creative path and her relationships with men (Opanas Markovich, Mykola Kulish, Ivan Turgenev, Dmitry Pisarev, Ivan Pasik).

The video features: opening credits, People's Artist of Ukraine Natalia Sumska in the role of Marko Vovchok (reading excerpts from letters and works), archival photographs, a monument to the writer in Nemirov, Nemirov Palace, the Motronivka farmstead, the former home of Mykola Verbytsky, and the Kachanivka Reserve.

Speakers: Doctor of Philology Serhiy Halchenko; Scientific Secretary of the M. Kotsyubinsky Museum Olga Yarmolenko; writer Svitlana Koronenko; Head of the Marko Vovchok Museum Nataliya Steblovska; Candidate of Philology Nataliya Levchik; Larysa Lykhvar, head of the research department at the Kachanivka Reserve; Kateryna Rybalko, editor-in-chief of the magazine Dyvoslovo; writer Iryna Lyubovyk; writer, critic, and winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize Mykhailo Slaboshpytskyi; senior research associate at the Marko Vovchok Museum Nina Levchenko.

Author: Teodozia Zarivna.

The Fatal Woman by Marko Vovchok

2005, National Television Company of Ukraine. A program from the Classic Premieres series dedicated to People's Artist of Ukraine Volodymyr Hryshko.

The video features: screensavers, archival footage and videos from the singer's performances and life, an interview with Volodymyr Hryshko in the studio with the host, a fragment of a performance with opera singer Monserrate Caballé.

Author: Tatiana Milenina.

Interview with Volodymyr Hryshko

2008, National Television Company of Ukraine. The program "Against all odds... Surgery!" is dedicated to Oleksandr Shalimov, MD, one of the founders of the Ukrainian surgical school.

The video features: screensavers, an interview with Oleksandr Shalimov, archival photos and videos, chronicle footage, operating rooms, the process of surgery, and exhibits of the Museum of Medicine.

Comments: Mykhailo Nychytailo, MD, PhD, Professor; Serhiy Shalimov, MD, Professor.

Reference: Oleksandr Oleksiyovych Shalimov (January 20, 1918 - February 28, 2006) was a prominent Ukrainian Soviet surgeon, academician of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Doctor of Medicine. He founded a modern Ukrainian surgical school, introduced more than 800 new techniques, including liver and stomach resection and pancreatic surgery, and organized the Institute of Surgery and Transplantation, which is named after him. Under Shalimov's leadership, the first heart transplant in Ukraine was performed. During his life, he performed about 40,000 operations, published more than 830 scientific papers, and was awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine.

Outstanding surgeon Oleksandr Shalimov

2000, National Television Company of Ukraine. A program about the Hero of Ukraine, Ukrainian scientist and physician Lyubov Mala.

The video includes: screensavers, the National Institute of Therapy of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine in Kharkiv (now the L. Mala National Institute of Therapy of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine), photos from the personal archive, working moments, laboratories, offices of the institute, wards, medical equipment. An interview with Liubov Mala about her work (cardiovascular diseases), career, love for patients, the profession of a doctor, and the creation of the institute.

Comments: Yevhen Nikolenko, MD, PhD; Volodymyr Volkov, MD, PhD, Professor; Oleksandr Tveretynov, Deputy Director, Honored Doctor of Ukraine.

Reference: Liubov Trokhymivna Mala (January 13, 1919 - April 14, 2003) was a prominent Ukrainian physician, therapist and cardiologist, Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR and Hero of Ukraine. She founded the Institute of Therapy in Kharkiv and was the first to introduce a system of staged treatment of myocardial infarction in Ukraine, and trained more than 200 candidates and doctors of sciences. On her initiative, cardiology departments were organized throughout the country, and the Institute of Therapy now bears her name.

Lyubov Mala: Doctor of Medical Sciences

1998, Kyiv.

In the video, a prominent physician and scientist Mykola Amosov gives advice to young people on spiritual and physical health, talks about the heart surgery center and the requirements he puts forward to hospital staff.

Academician Amosov's advice

Main editorial office of literary and dramatic programs of RT (now the National Public Television and Radio Company of Ukraine), 1989.

The program "A Tale of Restlessness" is dedicated to the biography and work of the Ukrainian director and actor Les Kurbas.

In the video: the village of Stary Skalat, Ternopil region, a prayer service at the grave of Les Kurbas's father - Stepan Kurbas; Ivchenko and Taniuk conduct a tour of the museum-estate; museum exposition, Valeriy Ivchenko recites poetry, talks about scenarios.

Hosts are People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR Valeriy Ivchenko and director, writer Les Taniuk.

The program uses materials from the literary heritage of Les Kurbas, memoirs of Mykola Bazhan, Ostap Vyshna, Yosyp Hirnyk and fragments from the documentary film "Les Kurbas".

Reference: Ukrainian director, theater reformer, founder of the Berezil Theater Les Kurbas was born in the village of Stary Skalat in the Ternopil Region, into a family of Galician actors Stepan and Wanda Kurbas. In February 1987, a memorial museum-estate dedicated to his life and the history of Ukrainian theater was opened in the same village. The exhibition is located in the house where the Kurbas family lived.

Les Kurbas: about theater and Ukraine

2006, Baturyn, Chernihiv region.

In the video: paintings of Mazepa, art, historical maps, manuscripts, monuments, churches, a memorial table, and a journalist's stand-up routine.

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