Volyn Television. The TV film "Runchak" from June 12, 2011 is dedicated to the composer and conductor Volodymyr Runchak.

In the video: archival photos of the Runchak family, Lyudmila Runchak shows posters and photos with her son; Volodymyr Runchak at rehearsals; fragments of concerts; comments on the talent of composer Volodymyr Runchak.

Comments: Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine Feofan Shegelsky; the composer's mother Lyudmila Runchak; composer and conductor Volodymyr Runchak; classmate of Volodymyr Runchak Iryna Prytolyuk; Honored Worker of Arts Anatoly Semeshko; composer from Azerbaijan Elmir Sirzoyev; artist Oleksandr Dubovik; musician from Ecuador Christian Orozco; fan Iryna Dubovik; member of the chamber ensemble "New Music in Ukraine" Polina Kruglova.

Author — Maria Andrushko.

Reference: Volodymyr Runchak is a Ukrainian composer, conductor and accordion player, a representative of modern academic music. His work is characterized by a combination of avant-garde compositional techniques with expressive expression and active concert activity in Ukraine and abroad.

Composer Volodymyr Runchak

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1995.

The film "Confession to a Teacher" is dedicated to memories of Ukrainian director Oleksandr Dovzhenko.

On the video: fragments of Oleksandr Dovzhenko's films, newsreel of the film shooting process; Oleksandr Dovzhenko's funeral, farewell; photos with Oleksandr Dovzhenko; directors share memories of Dovzhenko and his contribution to cinema.

Comments by writer-sixties, director Mykola Vingranovsky; documentary film director Jemma Firsova and others.

Director — Rolland Sergienko.

Directors' Memories of Oleksandr Dovzhenko

Lviv Television. The program "Saved Treasures" from February 21, 1998 is dedicated to restorer Volodymyr Mokry.

On the video: landscapes of Lviv; art critic, director of the Lviv Art Gallery Borys Voznytskyi talks about the work of restorer Volodymyr Mokryi, demonstrates the icon of "Lviv Mother of God"; poster "50th Anniversary of the Birth and 25th Anniversary of Volodymyr Mokryi's Activity in the Field of Restoration", recording of the exhibition opening, gallery halls, Borys Voznytskyi, Volodymyr Mokryi, Emanuil Mysko and others are sitting at the table; greetings to the birthday boy, Volodymyr Mokryi talks about his creative path, restoration, artistic finds; icon "Buska Mother of God".

Comments: art critic, director of the Lviv Art Gallery Borys Voznytskyi; Director of the Ivan Trush Lviv College of Applied and Decorative Arts Bohdan Kotsai; Rector of the Lviv Academy of Arts Emanuil Mysko; Professor of the Academy of Arts Volodymyr Ovsiychuk; Sculptor, Professor of the Academy of Arts Dmytro Kravets; Director of the National Museum Vasyl Otkovych; Lecturer of the Ivan Trush College Vsevolod Trofymlyuk; Restorer Volodymyr Mokriy; Head of the Fund Storage Department Ihor Khomyn.

Host — Oleg Andreyev.

Reference: Volodymyr Mokriy is a Ukrainian restorer and art researcher, representative of the Lviv restoration school, a specialist in tempera painting and sacred painting. He worked at the Lviv Art Gallery in collaboration with Borys Voznytskyi, participated in the restoration of notable monuments of icon painting and painting of the early modern period.

Lviv restorer Volodymyr Mokry

Lviv Television. The program "Publicist" from January 23, 1996 is dedicated to an interview with art critic Borys Voznytsky.

On the video: a splash screen, views of Lviv, a quote by Lina Kostenko about the geniuses of the era; Dominican Cathedral, Kornyakt Tower, Royal Arsenal; cannon; sculptures, various plans; the host talks about the figure of Borys Voznytsky; interview, Voznytsky talks about the restoration of Ukrainian castles, about holding exhibitions of artists banned during the USSR, the exhibition that is currently on display, the problems of the 19th century, the need to include works by artists of foreign origin who worked in Lviv in the Ukrainian cultural context; the halls of the Lviv Art Gallery, various plans of the museum exhibition; a conversation about the process of restoring Olesky Castle and transforming it into a department of the Lviv Art Gallery, restorers at work.

Commented by the director of the Lviv Art Gallery, art historian Borys Voznytsky.

Host — Yaroslav Feylo.

Reference: Borys Voznytsky is a Ukrainian art historian and museum worker, long-time director of the Lviv Art Gallery, who organized systematic work on the preservation, restoration and museum presentation of cultural monuments. He initiated the creation of museum expositions and the cultural and tourist route "Golden Horseshoe of Lviv Region".

Interview with Boris Voznytsky, 1996

Volyn Television. Broadcast to the "55th Anniversary of the UPA" from October 14, 1997 on the occasion of the anniversary of the creation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

On the video: singing, commemoration at the cemetery, comments by Olga Savytska; interview with Meletii Semenyuk, talks about nation-building, Ukrainian society, freedom, struggle, about the myth of the "Great Patriotic War"; comments by Bohdan Samokhvalenko about the ideology of the insurgents, resistance to the occupation authorities; Meletii Semenyuk talks about the prerequisites and creation of the UPA.

Comments: head of the Volyn Brotherhood of UPA (Ukrainian Insurgent Army) Soldiers Meletii Semenyuk; director of the Volyn Center of Folk Art Bohdan Samokhvalenko.

Journalist — Anastasia Petsenyuk.

Reference: Meletii Semenyuk is a Ukrainian military and public figure, an officer of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a participant in the OUN (Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists) underground and the Norilsk uprising of political prisoners of the Gulag. After being released from the camps, he organized the Brotherhood of OUN-UPA soldiers of the Volyn region and was engaged in the memorialization of participants in the national liberation movement.

To the "55th Anniversary of the UPA": Interview with Meletii Semenyuk

Poltava TV "Ltava". The documentary program "Volodymyr Chelomey. Delta of novelty" from March 20, 2014 is dedicated to the Ukrainian Soviet scientist and designer of rocket and space technology Volodymyr Chelomey.

On the video: black and white Soviet chronicles, science center, cosmonautics; Poltava Museum of Aviation and Cosmonautics, museum exposition, various plans; comments of researchers about the life and professional path of Volodymyr Chelomey.

Comments: Director of the Poltava Museum of Aviation and Cosmonautics, Colonel of the Reserve Andriy Pushkarev; researchers of the Poltava Museum of Aviation and Cosmonautics Iryna Pistolenko, Sylvester Shafarchuk; test engineer, colleague of Volodymyr Chelomey Leonard Smyrichevsky; Vice-President of the russian Academy of Natural Sciences Mikhail Kuznetsov; Corresponding Member of the russian Academy of Cosmonautics named after K. Tsiolkovsky Olga Opara; daughter of General Designer Sergei Korolev Natalia Korolev.

Reference: Volodymyr Chelomey is a Ukrainian Soviet mechanical scientist and designer of rocket and space technology, who made a significant contribution to the theory of oscillations and the dynamics of stability of complex systems. As General Designer, he led the development of a number of strategic missile complexes and spacecraft, in particular the Proton launch vehicles and the Salyut series orbital stations.

Volodymyr Chelomey: about science and space

Poltava TV "Ltava". The documentary program "Georgy Berehovy. I lived at maximum speed" from April 14, 2011 is dedicated to the Ukrainian Soviet pilot-cosmonaut, Lieutenant General of Aviation Georgy Berehovy.

On the video: black and white chronicles of World War II, aviation, air combat; researchers and residents of the village of Fedorivka talk about the life and professional path of Georgy Berehovy, share memories; awarding the pilot, chronicle, historical reference.

Comments: resident of the village of Fedorivka, Poltava region, Mykola Yemets; world literature teacher of Fedorivka secondary school Natalia Yukhnovskaya; director of the Karlivka Museum of History and Local Lore Tatyana Holub; Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Fedorivka Village Council in the 1970s Yevhen Churlyaev; Head of the Poltava Museum of Aviation and Cosmonautics named after Yu. Kondratyuk Sylvester Shafarchuk; Deputy Commander of the Air Force of Ukraine in 1997–2000, Major General Gennady Kotlyar; Colonel of the russian Space Forces Andrey Pushkarev.

Reference: Heorhiy Berehovy is a Ukrainian Soviet pilot-cosmonaut, Lieutenant General of Aviation, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, who made a space flight on the Soyuz-3 spacecraft in 1968. A participant in World War II, after the war he worked as a test pilot and headed the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

Pilot-cosmonaut Georgy Berehovy

2007, National Television Company of Ukraine. The documentary film "Hryhoriy Skovoroda. Not Caught by the World" is dedicated to the Ukrainian philosopher, poet and theologian.

On the video: screensavers, stories about Skovoroda, the Chornukhinsky Literary and Memorial Museum of Hryhoriy Skovoroda, the monument to Skovoroda on Kontraktova Square, a commemorative plaque, the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, a house in the village of Ivanivka (now Skovorodynovka) in the Poltava region. The film uses fragments of the anniversary evening dedicated to Hryhoriy Skovoroda. The recording features the voice of People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR Ivan Mykolaychuk.

The following talk about Skovoroda's life and work, spiritual world, and educational activities: Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Serhiy Krymsky; Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Myroslav Popovych; Director, Honored Artist of Ukraine Vasyl Vovkun; Doctor of Philosophy, Professor Leonid Ushakov.

‘Grigory Skovoroda. Unbound by the World’

2001, Dnipropetrovsk Regional State Television and Radio Company. This episode from the series ‘Heroes of Ukraine’ profiles Georgiy Markovich Skudar, CEO of JSC ‘NKMZ’ (Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant). Directed by Igor Rodionov.

In the video: opening sequences, an interview with Georgiy Markovich, the Novokramatorsk Machine-Building Plant, workshops, production, equipment, plant workers, Georgiy Skudar with President Leonid Kuchma.

Commentary: repair fitter O. Marchenko; head of KPC-2 O. Lymanksy.

Heorhiy Skudar — Director of Novokramatorsk Medical Center

2016, National Television Company of Ukraine. An episode of Yuriy Shapoval’s archive project ‘Ivan Drach: In Search of Maroyka’.

In the video: opening sequences, Ivan Drach in his native village of Telizhentsi in the Kyiv region, an interview with the poet (on war, literature, childhood, parents, his family home, his late son, Ukraine and independence, Ivan Mykolaychuk, his creative work, Vyacheslav Chornovil, the People’s Movement, the Russian-Ukrainian war), archive footage, Ivan Drach reciting his poems, the poet’s first poem, the grave of his late son, Ivan Drach in cinema, scenes from films based on the poet’s screenplays, footage from Ivan Mykolaychuk’s funeral, and archive footage of historical political events.

Ivan Drach. In Search of Maroyka

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2012.

A documentary film from the series "The Seventies" is dedicated to the life and creative achievements of the Ukrainian film director Kostyantyn Yershov.

On the video: Kyiv Cinema House, various plans; photos of Yershov from different years; fragments of Yershov's films; chronicle of the 70s–80s from the filming of films, cameramen and director at work.

Comments: Chairman of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine Serhiy Trymbach; directors Vyacheslav Kryshtofovich, Roman Balyan; actor Yaroslav Havrylyuk.

Host — Mark Gres.

Reference: Kostyantyn Yershov is a Ukrainian actor and film director who worked at the Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Studio and participated in the creation of a number of feature films. Best known as co-author and director of the film "Viy", as well as for the films "Late Child", "Every Evening After Work" and "Women Are Joking Seriously".


Film director Kostyantyn Yershov

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2012.

The documentary "Ukrainian Dream: Those Ten Years. Yevhen Sverstyuk" is dedicated to the activities of the Ukrainian writer Yevhen Sverstyuk in the 1980s and 1990s.

On the video: chronicles of the 1970s, Kyiv, various plans; a speech by writer Mykola Bazhan in 1981; an interview with Yevhen Sverstyuk, he talks about his activities, the restrictions of Soviet power, the political influence of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Yuri Andropov; Soviet chronicles of the 1980s, Kyiv, political demonstrations; Yevhen Sverstyuk talks about Vasyl Stus, his death, the influence of the poet; the opening of the memorial at the Bukryna bridgehead in Kyiv.

The sixties writer, essayist Yevhen Sverstyuk comments.

Host — Yuriy Shapoval.

Reference: Yevhen Sverstyuk is a Ukrainian literary critic, essayist and philosopher, one of the leading figures of the Sixties movement and an active participant in Ukrainian samizdat. His works, in particular the essay "The Cathedral on the Scaffold" and other journalistic texts, shaped the intellectual discourse of resistance to Russification and became an important factor in the development of Ukrainian humanitarian thought. After 1991, he played a significant role in the processes of decommunization, headed the Ukrainian PEN Club and edited the newspaper "Nasha Vira".

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