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.

Interview with Ivan Popovych

Chernivtsi television, program “Knight of the Word,” 1992. The program was prepared for the 75th anniversary of the writer Mykhailo Ivasyuk. 

In the video, Mykhailo Ivasyuk talks about his native village, his studies at the academy, his joy in literature, his mother, and the writer Iryna Wilde.

In the frame, TV announcer Oleksandra Borovko reads Mykhailo Ivasyuk's works.

Mykhailo Ivasyuk in the program “Knight of the Word”

The program of Lviv television "Moments of the soul of Yury Shukhevich", 2006.

The journalist is Sofia Kohmat.

Reference: Yuriy-Bohdan Shukhevych is a Ukrainian public figure, political prisoner, chairman of the Ukrainian Inter-Party Assembly and the Ukrainian National Assembly (UNA), commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian National Self-Defense Forces (UNSO), son of UPA General Roman Shukhevych.

He was born on March 28, 1933 in the village of Oglyadove, Lviv Region. After the arrival of the Soviet troops, he was arrested and deported together with his mother to Siberia. Spent more than 30 years in Soviet prisons and pretrial detention centers, as well as 3 years in an orphanage for "enemies of the people". In 2014, he became a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

He died on November 22, 2022 at the age of 89.

Interview with Yuriy Shukhevych

He was recorded in 1981. A conversation with the composer Vitaliy Kireiko about his creative dreams, writing the Symphony Concertante and Symphony No. 2, the problems of his works, and the relationship between the composer and the listener.

Reference: Vitaliy Kireiko is a Ukrainian composer, musician, and public figure who is a professor at the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine. He is the author of Ukraine's first double concerto for violin and cello with orchestra, a chamber comic opera Vernissage at the Fair, and the first satirical opera extravaganza Marko in Hell. The artist's creative heritage includes 299 opuses of various genres and has become part of the treasury of Ukrainian classical music of the mid-twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Vitaliy Kireiko: a conversation with the composer

Ternopil television program "Through the lens of TTB", March 5, 2018.

The guest is the actor Volodymyr Goryanskyi. A conversation about the theater, performances, peculiarities of the profession, recreation.

Interview with the actor with Volodymyr Horyansky

She was recorded in the 1980s. A conversation with the opera singer Ella Akrytova about contemporary music, performance technique, the performer's vocal capabilities, and her work with composers, including Oleh Kiva. 

Reference: Ella Akrytova is a Ukrainian opera singer and pedagogue from a family of Greeks living in Donbas. She studied at the Kyiv Conservatory in Natalia Zakharchenko's class. From 1963 to 1968, she worked at the Kyiv State Philharmonic. Among her students are Ukrainian opera singers Victoria Lukyanets, Volodymyr Hryshko, Liudmyla Davymuka, and others.

Personalities