2009, Zaporizhzhia Regional State Television and Radio Company. A programme from the series ‘Chronicle. Footprints on the Earth’ dedicated to the Kyiv prince Sviatoslav Ihorovych (the Brave).

The video features opening credits, historical reconstructions of events, historical illustrations and archival photographs, and footage from films. Comments on military campaigns, reign and interesting facts from the prince's biography: Yurii Kniazkov, candidate of historical sciences; Tetiana Shelemetieva, senior researcher at the Khortytsia National Reserve.

Author: Regina Chendyrina.

Prince Sviatoslav Ihorovych (the Brave)

Lviv Television. The August 29, 2000 issue of the "Autograph" program is dedicated to an interview with bandurist-kobzar Mykhailo Baran.

On the video: a performance by Mykhailo Baran, performing folk songs on the bandura; the bandurist talks about his creative path, memories of the Yatran River, a collection of ethnographic song material, the features of the bandura instrument; graphics by Mykhailo Baran, photographs from the personal archive of the Baran family.

Host — Honored Journalist of Ukraine Vasyl Hlynchak.

Reference: Mykhailo Baran is a Ukrainian bandurist, artist and sculptor, Honored Artist of Ukraine, one of the leading popularizers of kobzar and choral art in the Lviv region in the second half of the 20th century. Founder and leader of a number of amateur chapels and ensembles, as well as the initiator of the creation of public museums. In 1965, he formed a family trio of bandurists "Zhayvory", whose touring activities covered Ukraine and a number of European and non-European countries. The artist's creative heritage includes poetic and musical works, graphics and works in the field of sacred painting.

"Autograph": bandurist Mykhailo Baran

Lviv, 1994. Lviv Television, program “Oberegy pam'yati” (Guardians of Memory).

Journalist Yaroslav Feilo, together with studio guests human rights activist Ivan Gel and doctor Mykhailo Pavlovsky, remember the head of the Lviv City Executive Committee, Bohdan Kotyk.
The program features photographs of Bohdan Kotyk.

Reference: Bohdan Kotyk (1936–1991) was the head of the Lviv City Executive Committee and a member of the first democratic convocation of the Ukrainian Parliament. As head of the Lviv City Council Executive Committee during the Soviet era (1989–1990), he took a pro-Ukrainian patriotic stance. On his initiative, the Lenin monument in Lviv was dismantled. Bohdan Kotyk also contributed to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church coming out of hiding, supported the organization of a demonstration in 1989 on the anniversary of the occupation of Galicia by Soviet troops, and initiated the production of goods needed by the people at Lviv enterprises. He died suddenly of a heart attack. 


In memory of Bohdan Kotyk

Kharkiv, 1976. Kharkiv Television.

The film “The Axis of Life” about Leonid Gluschenko, a locksmith at the Kharkiv Electromechanical Plant (KEMZ) and Hero of Socialist Labor.

The film is in Russian.

The axis of Leonid Gluschenko's life

"Podillia-Center", 2003. The program "Allegro. Music in the Heart" is dedicated to the poet-songwriter Myroslav Vonyo.

In the video: an interview, Myroslav Vonyo talks about his life and creative path, the popularity of his songs, Ukrainian pop music; fragments of clips of leading Ukrainian pop singers with songs to his lyrics.

Host — Olga Knyazhna.

Reference: Myroslav Vonyo is a Ukrainian poet-songwriter, the author of numerous texts for popular pop and folk songs, has been working in the field of professional music since the late 1960s. The author's creative output includes more than 400 song texts, many of which have entered the repertoire of leading Ukrainian performers and choral groups. Among the performers who performed songs to his words: Sofia Rotaru, Oksana Bilozir, Dmytro Hnatyuk, Ivan Popovych, Vitaliy Bilonozhko, as well as the ensembles "Verkhovyna", "Cossacks of Podillya" and "Smerichka".


Poet-songwriter Myroslav Vonyo

Volyn region, Falkiv farmstead, 2012. Volyn Television.

Program “Vasyl Prostopchuk: A Man of Cheerful Disposition” about the poet Vasyl Prostopchuk, his museum-estate “Far from the Neighbor,” where he collected a collection of folk life items and works of socialist realism. The poet talks about the idea of creating such a manor and quotes his poems. Guests of the manor are entertained and treated to refreshments.

The video shows flags, posters, pennants, sculptures of Lenin and Chkalov, fences and walls painted with Soviet slogans and portraits of Soviet figures, quotes from famous poems, the sculpture “Chernobyl Mother,” a monument to the young Shevchenko, and more.

The program features an excerpt from the play “Inevitable” staged by actors of the Volyn Academic Music and Drama Theater named after T. Shevchenko.

Comments: Oleg Poturay, head of the Volyn organization of the Union of Writers of Ukraine; writer Petro Korobchuk; writer Nina Gorik; Anatoliy Glyva, director of the Volyn Academic Music and Drama Theater named after T. Shevchenko; Polish writer Leszek Engulking; Boris Klimchuk, head of the Volyn Regional State Administration; Antanas Joninas, head of the Lithuanian Writers' Union.

Vasyl Prostopchuk: “A cheerful person”

Lutsk, 1995. Volyn Television.

An evening with poet and distinguished journalist of Ukraine Vasyl Prostopchuk, “White Snowflakes,” part 2. 

The event takes place at the Volyn Academic Regional Music and Drama Theater named after T. Shevchenko. Composers and performers Lyudmila Matviychuk, Petro Svist, Oleg Martsynkovsky, Mykola Svidyuk, Antonina and Svitlana Marenychi, Pavlo Zibrov, Ivo Bobul, and Lilia Sandulesa are participating.

The host of the evening, Vira Malunova, reads greetings from poet Ivan Drach, literary scholar and People's Deputy of Ukraine Mykola Zhulinsky, editor-in-chief of Kyiv magazine, and secretary of the Writers' Union of Ukraine Petro Perebyinos.

Vasyl Prostapchuk is greeted by Serhiy Shevchuk, first deputy head of the Volyn Regional State Administration, and Sviatoslav Kravchuk, deputy head of the Lutsk City Executive Committee.

People's Artist of Ukraine Lyudmila Prykhodko invites Vasyl Prostapchuk's family onto the stage, where his relatives present him with a loaf of bread, flowers, and a portrait of the poet.

The final number of the concert.

“White Metals” by Vasyl Prostopchuk

Volyn Television. Issue of the program "Political Notebook" from November 10, 2005.

Guest of the Volyn Television studio is People's Deputy of Ukraine, Chairman of the Ukrainian People's Party Yuriy Kostenko. Topic of the conversation: "Is an independent center-right force needed in the elections?"

Host — Halyna Startseva.

Reference: Yuriy Kostenko is a Ukrainian politician of national-democratic orientation, long-time leader of the Ukrainian People's Movement and Chairman of the Ukrainian People's Party. In the 1990s-2000s, he consistently defended the pro-European course of Ukraine, issues of ecological and nuclear safety, headed government structures related to environmental protection and nuclear policy. Author of a fundamental work on the history of nuclear disarmament of Ukraine, in which he emphasizes the strengthening of national security and the need for an independent foreign policy.

People's Movement: Interview with Yuriy Kostenko

Cherkasy Television. The program "Faces of the 'Golden Book'" from December 20, 2000 is dedicated to an interview with People's Artist of Ukraine Olga Pavlovska.

On the video: photo archive of the Pavlovska family, landscapes of the Cherkasy region, fragments of video recordings of Olga Pavlovska's performances, she performs the song "Steppom, steppom"; studio, interview with Olga Pavlovska, she talks about her voice, creative path, participation in the "Rosava" ensemble; Pavlovska's colleagues talk about the singer.

Comments: People's Artist of Ukraine Olga Pavlovska; actresses of the Cherkasy Regional Philharmonic Tetyana Bryk, Lyubov Ponomarenko, Larisa Petryna; head of the "Rosava" ensemble of the regional philharmonic, Honored Artist of Ukraine Mykola Petryna.

Host — Kateryna Taran.

Reference: Olga Pavlovska is a Ukrainian singer, People's Artist of Ukraine, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR. Soloist of the Cherkasy State Honored Ukrainian Folk Choir, known for performing works by Anatoly Pashkevych and Ivan Slyota, which are included in the golden fund of Ukrainian song. Awarded the Order of Merit of the 3rd degree.

Olga Pavlovska — the voice of the Cherkasy Philharmonic

Lviv Television. The episode of the program “Unforgettable” from October 10, 1987 is dedicated to the artist Olena Kulchytska. 

On the video: Olena Kulchytska museum, paintings, exterior of the house, memorial tablet, exhibits; easel, photographs, brushes, books, albums, woodcuts, carpets, enamel works; museum director Sofia Tytar conducts a tour for visitors and talks about the artist; loom, living rooms, books illustrated by Olena Kulchytska; close-ups of paintings. 

Comments: People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR Emanuil Mysko; Director of the Olena Kulchytska Museum Sofia Tytar; art historian Khrystyna Sanotska. 

Reference: Olena Kulchytska is a Ukrainian artist, graphic artist and teacher, People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. Author of over four thousand works in painting, graphics, carpet weaving and book illustration, which formed the national school of Ukrainian art of the 20th century. She taught at the Ivan Fedorov Ukrainian Polygraphic Institute (now the Ukrainian Academy of Printing), and headed the folk art department of the Lviv Ethnographic Museum. 

Artist Olena Kulchytska 

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2008.

The film "The Last Hetman. Fulfillment of a Dream" is dedicated to the biography of the Hetman of Ukraine Pavlo Skoropadsky.

On the video: black-and-white chronicles of the early 20th century, revolutionary events; a portrait of Pavlo Skoropadsky, a photo of the town of Wiesbaden, where he was born, photos with his family; the family estate in Trostyantsy, Pryluky district, Poltava region; Pavlo Skoropadsky's wife, various photos of the Hetman; a meeting in Berlin between Pavlo Skoropadsky and Kaiser Wilhelm II; the honorary Order of the Red Eagle is demonstrated.

The film uses materials from the Central State Film, Photo and Phono Archive of Ukraine named after G. S. Pshenichny.

Reference: Pavlo Skoropadsky — Ukrainian statesman and military figure, lieutenant general of the Russian Imperial Army; Hetman of the Ukrainian State from April 29 to December 14, 1918. As head of state, he carried out institutional reforms (founding the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, universities, and a network of gymnasiums), relied on an administrative-authoritarian model, and in foreign policy interacted with the states of the Quadruple Alliance. The collapse of the regime was caused by the defeat of Germany and Austria-Hungary, the unresolved agrarian issue, and broad opposition, which led to his abdication on December 14, 1918. In exile, he led the hetman movement and supported the scientific and cultural initiatives of the Ukrainian diaspora.

Pavlo Skoropadsky — Hetman of the Ukrainian State

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2017.

The documentary film "Oles Shevchenko. As in Confession" from the series "Dissidents" is dedicated to the life path of dissident Oles Shevchenko and his contribution to the struggle for the independence of Ukraine.

On the video: Soviet chronicles with Joseph Stalin; photos from the personal archive of the Shevchenko family; interview with dissident Oles Shevchenko.

Comments: Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, researcher of the Ukrainian liberation movement Vasyl Derevinsky; participant of the Ukrainian national liberation movement, historian Oleksandr Tkachuk; human rights activist, political prisoner 1980–1987, head of the Kyiv organization of the Ukrainian Civil Society in 1988–1990 Oles Shevchenko.

Reference: Oles Shevchenko is a Ukrainian dissident and political figure, a participant in the national liberation movement, a member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. In 1980, he was sentenced to 5 years in camps and 3 years in exile for "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda", released in 1987. After his release, he headed the Kyiv organization of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, became one of the public leaders of democratic rallies and actions of the late 1980s. People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 1st convocation, member of the "People's Rada" faction, co-author of the Declaration on the State Sovereignty of Ukraine, was a member of the leadership of the URP, NRU and UNP, headed veterans' and human rights associations.

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