Cherkasy, Cherkasy Regional State TV and Radio Company, October 26, 2014.

The program “Figures” is dedicated to Ukrainian canoeist, Olympic champion Andriy Khimich. The athlete talks about his passion for sports since childhood, mastering canoeing, first successes, achievements in sports, emotions from winning the Olympics, coaching, and his farm.
The program uses a video from the movie Easy Water, a black-and-white chronicle of sports training.

Reference: Andrii Khymych was a rowing athlete, Honored Master of Sports of the Ukrainian SSR (1964), Honored Coach of the Ukrainian SSR (1966), European champion (1961, 1965), USSR champion (1961-1966), and champion of the XVII Olympic Games in Tokyo (1964). He was born on December 14, 1937, in Chernihiv region. After completing his sports career, he worked as a coach. He currently lives in the village of Chornobai, Cherkasy region. He is an honorary citizen of Cherkasy region.

Olympic rower Andriy Khimich

Kyiv, 2000.

A TV sketch dedicated to Symon Petliura from a series of TV programs about prominent Ukrainian figures based on original scripts by journalist and writer Mykola Shudrya.

On the video: Mykola Shudrya talks about his work on materials on the biography of Symon Petliura, demonstrates his own collection, in particular facsimiles of Symon Petliura; biography and photographs from different periods of Symon Petliura's life; fragments of chronicles; photos of the Petliura family, grave in Paris; Mykola Shudrya recites poems by Volodymyr Sosyura.

Contains fragments of black-and-white chronicles.

Host — Mykola Shudrya.

Symon Petliura: documentary TV sketch

Editing materials for the program “In Kyiv the Great” from the series “Taras's Ways”. The story is narrated by writer Volodymyr Brovchenko. 

The program is dedicated to the period of Taras Shevchenko's life in Kyiv (1843-1847). The program describes the paintings and drawings that Shevchenko created in Kyiv, his acquaintances with prominent people, including members of the Cyril and Methodius Brotherhood. 

The video shows the slopes of the Dnipro River, streets and parks where Shevchenko visited, the house-museum where he lived from 1845, the printing house, the State University, and memorials associated with Taras Shevchenko. Fragments of Shevchenko's works and letters are used. Read in the original language by Mykola Babenko.

“Taras's ways": Shevchenko's life in Kyiv

Ternopil Television Program "Frank Dialogues", April 18, 2016.

A program about Ukrainian writers the Kapranov brothers.

Interview with the Kapranov brothers

The video shows Leonid Kadenyuk training at the Lyndon Johnson Space Center in Texas, USA, along with five other crew members on November 16, 1997. The astronauts are conducting experiments and working with equipment. 

There is a commentary by Leonid Kadenyuk and his understudy Yaroslav Pustovyi.

Leonid Kadeniuk: training in the USA

Kyiv, 2020.

The film is about the world-famous scientist Borys Paton. The film uses black-and-white chronicles of Borys Paton's work and scientific developments during the Second World War; footage of Borys Paton's election as president of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1962; footage of welded structures underwater, experiments with welding in space; part of the Salyut orbital station.

Reference: Borys Paton (1918-2020) was an engineer, academician, and politician. He worked in the field of welding processes, metallurgy and metal technology. From 1953 to 2020, he was the director of the E. Paton Institute of Electric Welding, in 1962 he headed the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (later the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and was its president until his death. Borys Paton is a member of a number of domestic and foreign scientific organizations. He was awarded a number of state awards, including the title of Hero of Ukraine, the highest state honor, on November 26, 1998.

Boris Paton: scientist, innovator, Hero of Ukraine

Lviv, 2007. 

The video shows a film about the UPA commander-in-chief Roman Shukhevych. Comments: Yuriy Shukhevych - son of Roman Shukhevych, Lubomyr Polyuha - Roman Shukhevych's liaison, Viktor Idzio - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Panteleimon Vasylivsky “Faithful” - Cossack of the Kuban Insurgent Army

The film uses fragments from the films Brothers, Yablunivka Roads, and General Oleksandr Hrekov. 

Roman Shukhevych: a film about the UPA Commander-in-Chief 

In the documentary film The Way of Vyacheslav Chornovil, his family and friends tell about the life, beliefs and activities of the politician and public figure.

Interviews: sister Valentyna Chornovil; Atena Pashko, his wife; Vyacheslav Chornovil's comrades: Pavlo Shchyrytsia, Liudmyla Baranevych, Yaroslav Kendzier, and Oleksandr Tkalenko. 

Archival interviews and photos of Vyacheslav Chornovil, video of his election as the head of the regional council, and video from the personal archive of Yaroslav Kendzior were used. 

Vyacheslav Chornovil: a documentary about a politician

The video is a program about Nazariy Yaremchuk. It tells about his family, childhood and career. 

Fragments of movies with Nazariy Yaremchuk and songs performed by him are used. 

Nazariy Yaremchuk: a symbol of Ukrainian pop music

The video is a documentary about the Ukrainian singer Nazariy Yaremchuk and the Smerichka Vocal Group. 

The life and work of Nazariy Yaremchuk is told by his colleagues in the Smerichka VIA, as well as friends and family, among others: Odarka Fediuk, Nazariy Yaremchuk's godmother, sister Kateryna Yaremchuk, Olena Shevchenko, his first wife, sons Dmytro and Nazariy, daughter Maria, and wife Daryna Yaremchuk.

The film was made on the occasion of the artist's 60th birthday. The film uses fragments of films, materials from the private archives of Daryna Yaremchuk and Levko Dutkivsky, as well as video from the Pshenychnyi Central State Film and Photo Archive. 

Reference: Nazarii Yaremchuk was born on November 30, 1951, in the Carpathian village of Rivnia, now a suburb of Vyzhnytsia. He was the fourth child in his family. His father sang in a church choir and his mother acted in a folk theater. On his second attempt, he entered the Geography Department of Chernivtsi University. In 1988, he graduated from the Kyiv Institute of Culture. He was a soloist of the vocal and instrumental ensemble Smerichka of the Chernivtsi Philharmonic. He is known, in particular, for performing such Ukrainian songs as: “Chervona Ruta”, ‘Vodohrai’, ‘Stozhary’, ‘Hai, Zelenyi Hai’, ‘Rodyna’, ‘Song will be among us’ and many others. During his life, he recorded more than 150 songs. Nazariy Yaremchuk died of cancer on June 30, 1995. He was buried in Chernivtsi.

Nazariy Yaremchuk. A mission marked by the sky

The radio story ‘Volyn is like a song in my soul’ was recorded on 25 September 1994—a conversation with the poet, composer, and public activist Yevhenia Leshchuk. 

Songs by the poet and poems performed by Yevheniia Leshchuk are performed.

The author is Liubov Vanchuhina.

Poet Yevheniia Leshchuk

Volyn television, Lutsk, 26 April 1994. The studio's guest is the People's Artist of Ukraine, Ivan Popovych. He talks about his studies at the Lviv Conservatory, his first success as a performer, his collaboration with poets, and his family.

Songs performed by Ivan Popovych are performed.

Alla Ostrolutska hosts the interview.

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