2000, National Television of Ukraine. The issue of the cycle program "Heroes of Ukraine" is dedicated to the scientist, Hero of Ukraine - Boris Paton.

On the video: intros, interview with Boris Paton about the beginning of his life, newsreel, research into welding technologies, awarding the title of Hero of Ukraine, election of Boris Paton to the position of President of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the academician water skiing, playing tennis.

Heroes of Ukraine: Borys Paton

2001, National Television Company of Ukraine. Release of the program "The Face of Freedom". The main character is academician, literary critic, laureate of the Shevchenko Prize and the prize - Ivan Dzyuba. Host - Teodozia Zarivna.

On the video: screensavers, fragments of historical events, an interview with Ivan Dzyuba about freedom, dictatorship, the process of democratization, the concepts of evil and good, freedom of the press.

Interview with Ivan Dziuba

From the personal archive of Yaroslav Kendzor.

January 18, 1989, Lviv.

On the video: Yevhen Sverstyuk at the table, speaking to the camera; Yaroslav Kendzor congratulates Yevhen Sverstyuk on the position of president of the UANTI association (Ukrainian Association of Independent Creative Intelligentsia); interview with Yevhen Sverstyuk, he talks about the hopes placed on the association's activities, about the Vasyl Stus Prize, the significance of Vasyl Stus' poetry, the first laureates of the prize, and the courage of the actors of the youth theater, who were threatened by representatives of the regional department of culture and the KGB and insisted that they refuse the prize.

Yevhen Sverstyuk, 1989: About UANTI and the Vasyl Stus Prize

Poltava Television, 2006. The program "Meeting for You" is dedicated to the Ukrainian theater and film actress Ada Rogovtseva.

On the video: Poltava Academic Regional Ukrainian Music and Drama Theater named after Mykola Gogol, a performance with the participation of Ada Rogovtseva, fragments of the performance; excerpts from films with the participation of Ada Rogovtseva; biography of the actress; excerpts of an interview with Ada Rogovtseva.

Comments: People's Artist of Ukraine, theater and film actress Ada Rogovtseva; People's Artist of Ukraine Yevhen Paperny; actress Kateryna Stepankova.

Reference: Ada Rogovtseva is a Ukrainian theater and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR, Hero of Ukraine. For over 35 years she worked at the Kiev National Academic Theater named after Lesya Ukrainka, gained all-Union recognition thanks to her role in the film "Salute, Marie!". She was awarded four theater awards "Kiev Pectoral" and the film award "Golden Spinning Top".

"Meeting for You": Ada Rogovtseva

Ternopil Television. The March 7, 2018 issue of the "Frank Dialogues" program is dedicated to an interview with the Ukrainian Insurgent Army's liaison and intelligence officer Hanna "Lileya" Linko-Kovalchuk.

In the video: the intelligence officer talks about her life, childhood, school, World War II, the fate of her family, and camp exile.

Comments: the liaison officer's niece Zynovia Kernychna; intelligence officer Hanna Linko-Kovalchuk.

Host — Larysa Mykhalska.

Reference: Hanna Linko-Kovalchuk is a Ukrainian public figure, member of the OUN, liaison officer, intelligence officer, and UPA medic (pseudonym "Lileya"), a Knight of the Order of Princess Olga, III degree. Arrested in 1949 by the Soviet authorities and sentenced to ten years in the strict regime camps "Berlag" in the Magadan region. After her release in 1955, she returned to Ukraine, where, together with her husband, a fellow UPA member Trokhym Linko, she remained an active participant in patriotic life until her death in 2023.

UPA intelligence officer Hanna "Lileya" Linko-Kovalchuk

1999, Chernihiv Television. The episode of the cyclical program "Chernihiv Region in the Life of the Famous" is dedicated to the Ukrainian artist, decorator, and Boychukist Oleksandr Sayenko. Host: Tetyana Myrhorodska.

On the video: screensavers, an event dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth in Borzna, the art and memorial museum "Estate of People's Artist of Ukraine Oleksandr Sayenko", paintings.

The following people talk about the artist: his daughter, a member of the Union of Folk Art Masters of Ukraine Nina Sayenko; research associate of the Borzna Art and Memorial Museum Lyudmila Kostyana; Deputy Minister of Culture of Ukraine Volodymyr Rozhok; Head of the Culture Department of the Regional State Administration Oleh Vasyuta; poet Stanislav Rep'yakh.

Artist Oleksandr Sayenko

2001, Chernihiv Television. The episode of the series "Chernihiv Region in the Lives of the Famous" is dedicated to the Ukrainian military figure Pavlo Polubotko. The host is Tetyana Myrhorodska.

On the video: screensavers, the story of Pavlo Polubotko, paintings, Polubotko's Chernihiv estate, a journalist's stand-up. Candidate of Historical Sciences Oleksandr Kovalenko talks about the hetman.

Hetman Pavlo Polubotok

2009, National Television Company of Ukraine. The second part of the program "Patriarch's Rock" is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of His Holiness Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine - Filaret (Denysenko).

On the video: screensavers, interview with Filaret, historical chronicle with the participation of Filaret, fragments from the Second All-Ukrainian Church and Public Forum "For the Ukrainian Local Orthodox Church" in 2007, fragment from the funeral of Patriarch Volodymyr on July 18, 1995, fragment from the press conference on July 19, 1995, Filaret's speeches, archival photographs.

The following people talk about and congratulate Filaret: the rector of the Volodymyr Cathedral, Archpriest Borys Tabachek; Archpriest Valery Semantso; Bishop Lavrenty of Kharkiv and Bogodukhiv; Archbishop Anthony of Khmelnytsky and Kamianets-Podilsky; Archpriest Bohdan Boyko; Bishop Vsevolod of Luhansk and Starobilsky; Bishop Onufry of Vinnytsia and Bratslav; Bishop Eustratius of Vasylkiv; Bishop Jacob of Odessa and the Baltic; Bishop Nestor of Ternopil and Buchach; Archbishop Sergius of Donetsk and Mariupol; Metropolitan Adrian of Dnipropetrovsk and Kryvyi Rih; Metropolitan Eusebius of Rivne and Ostroh; People's Deputy Pavlo Movchan; Metropolitan Andriy of Lviv and Sokal.

"Patriarch's Rock": 80 years of Filaret. Part 2

2009, National Television Company of Ukraine. The first part of the program "Patriarch's Rock" is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of His Holiness Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus'-Ukraine - Filaret (Denysenko).

On the video: screensavers, interview with Filaret, fragments of the enthronement on October 22, 1995, Filaret's speech, memories of the childhood of the patriarch's own brother Ivan Denysenko, archival photos, fragments of events with Filaret's participation.

The following people talk about and congratulate Filaret: Bishop of Poltava and Kremenchuk Fedir; the rector of the Volodymyr Cathedral, Archpriest Borys Tabachek; Archbishop of Lutsk and Volyn Mykhailo; Bishop of Vinnytsia and Bratslav Onufriy; Metropolitan of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky, rector of the CPBA Dimitriy; Bishop of Simferopol and Crimea Kliment; Archbishop Izyaslav of Zhytomyr and Ovruch; Archbishop John of Cherkasy and Chyhyryn.

"Patriarch's Rock": 80 years of Filaret. Part 1

November 20, 2019, Kyiv.

A story about public activist Roman Ratushny, who talks about his participation in the Revolution of Dignity, the fight to preserve Protasovy Yar, and the threats he received because of his public activities. Footage of the Maidan, Protasovy Yar, screenshots of threats on Facebook.

Comments: Roman Ratushny, head of the initiative group "Let's Protect Protasov Yar"; Roman's lawyer Yevheniya Zakrevska; Deputy Head of the President's Office Andriy Smyrnov; Spokesperson of the Solomyansk Police Department Olena Moshko.

Reference: Roman Ratushny is a Ukrainian public activist, participant in the Revolution of Dignity, and founder of the initiative "Let's Protect Protasov Yar," which opposed the development of the eponymous tract in Kyiv. After the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, he voluntarily joined the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and died on June 9, 2022 while performing a combat mission in the Kharkiv region.

Activist Roman Ratushny

Ternopil region, 2011. The episode of the program "Candid Dialogues" is dedicated to an interview with the photographer Vyacheslav Kostyukov.

In the video: an interview with the photographer, talks about the experience of "nude" photo shoots, comments from connoisseurs of Vyacheslav Kostyukov's works; a story about childhood, exhibitions, family, creativity, sources of inspiration.

Comments: photo model, photographer Olesya Nepyyvoda; Chairman of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine Yevhen Bezkorovany; Member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine Bohdan Tkachyk; Chairman of the Board of the Ternopil Regional Organization of the National Union of Photographers of Ukraine Vasyl Balyukh; Journalist Iryna Chuyko; Literary critic Volodymyr Frolenkov.

Host — Larisa Mykhalska.

Reference: Vyacheslav Kostyukov is a Ukrainian photographer, a member of the National Union of Photographers of Ukraine and the International Union of Writers and Journalists. Laureate of international, all-Union and all-Ukrainian exhibitions, known as a pioneer of erotic photography in the USSR. He gained authority in the "nude" genre starting in the 1970s, was the first in Ternopil to organize an exhibition of erotic photographs, and had personal exhibitions in Ukraine and Great Britain.

“The Pioneer of Soviet Erotica”: Photographer Vyacheslav Kostyukov

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1994. 

The documentary film "Beretti. Father and Son" is dedicated to Ukrainian and Russian architects — Vikenty and his son Oleksandr Beretti. 

On the video: biography of the Beretti family, monuments on their graves at the Baikove Cemetery in Kyiv; the main and academic buildings of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv; St. Volodymyr's Cathedral, various plans; archival photo documents; monuments authored by architects. 

Reference: Vikenty Beretti is an architect of Italian origin, academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. The most famous works are the building of Kyiv University (Red Building), projects of the Astronomical Observatory, the Botanical Garden and the Institute of Noble Maidens, as well as co-authorship of the general plan for the development of Kyiv. 

Alexander Beretti is an academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, the son and successor of the architect Vikent Beretti. A prominent representative of classicism in Kyiv, a lecturer in the history of architecture at Kyiv University. He designed a number of iconic Kyiv buildings, including the building of the First Kyiv Gymnasium and the Anatomical Theater of Kyiv University, and also supervised the construction of St. Volodymyr's Cathedral. 

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