December 4, 2019, Kyiv.

Video interview with Ukrainian public activist, political prisoner of Putin's regime Volodymyr Balukh. The activist shows his apartment, personal belongings, books, letters from prison.

Reference: Volodymyr Balukh is a Ukrainian public activist and farmer from Crimea, known for his open pro-Ukrainian position after the russian occupation of the peninsula in 2014. For refusing to remove the Ukrainian flag and criticizing the occupation authorities, he was politically persecuted, convicted on trumped-up charges, and imprisoned. In 2019, Balukh was released during a prisoner exchange between Ukraine and russia.

Interview with Volodymyr Balukh

2013, National Television Company of Ukraine. A documentary film from the series ‘The Seventies’ dedicated to the life and work of Ukrainian film director Tymofiy Levchuk.

The video features opening credits, film clips, and colleagues' memories of Tymofiy Levchuk: Volodymyr Gorpenko, rector of the Ivan Mykolaychuk Institute of Screen Arts; Serhiy Trymbach, head of the National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine; People's Artist of Ukraine Anatoliy Barchuk; Honoured Artist of Ukraine Silviya Serhiychikova; writer Yuriy Topchiy; film director, People's Artist of Ukraine Roman Balayan.

The Seventies: Film Director Timofiy Levchuk

Documentary film "He Who Paved the Way" about the life and work of the Ukrainian writer, biker, teacher and publisher - Yevhen Hrebinka.

The writer Yevhen Hrebinka was born on February 2, 1812 and lived for 36 years. He was engaged in literary activity for almost half of his life. Over 15 years, he published more than 50 novels, novels and short stories.

There is an interview with Serhiy Nekrasov, the director of the museum named after Pushkin, Tetyana Lebedynska — Candidate of Philosophical Sciences, member of the Writers' Union of Ukraine.

Evgeny Hrebinka. Documentary film about the writer

1995, Ukrainian television. A video film about the life and work of philosopher, physicist and educator Ivan Pul'uj.

The video includes: opening credits, two short stories — ‘Crossroads’ and ‘Light at the End of the Tunnel’. The text is read by Anatoliy Vasyanovych and Valentina Martynyuk.

The life and work of Ivan Pul'uj

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2007.

The episode of the program "Not with the Only Bread" is dedicated to the literary heritage and an interview with the poet Dmytro Pavlychko.

On the video: an interview with Dmytro Pavlychko, demonstrating his printed publications, library; the poet's office, talking about the creative process; poets share their impressions of Dmytro Pavlychko's poetry; songs to the words of Dmytro Vasylovych.

Comments: poet, laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize of Ukraine Dmytro Pavlychko; poets Stanislav Chernilevsky and Andriy Bondar.

Host — Teodoziya Zarivna.

Reference: Dmytro Pavlychko is one of the key poets of Ukrainian literature of the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries, whose work combined classical form (sonnet, poem) with acute historical, national and moral issues. His poetry and translations became an important tool for establishing the Ukrainian language in the world cultural context and for the formation of a modern Ukrainian literary tradition. Pavlychko played a decisive role in preserving the continuity between European classics and the Ukrainian poetic canon.

Literary Heritage of Dmytro Pavlychko

Lviv Television, Literary and Dramatic Editorial Office. The June 26, 1993 issue of the "Autograph" program is dedicated to the writer Hryhoriy Nudga on the occasion of his 80th anniversary.

On the video: Hryhoriy Nudga's apartment, his books, photographs, a recording of an interview; Hryhoriy Nudga talks about studying Ukrainian culture; the studio, the poster for the 80th anniversary celebration, the anniversary, people in the hall - Roman Kudlyk, Andriy Sodomora, greetings from Ivan Denysiuk; documents indicating Nudga's Cossack origin, family photographs; the author's story about Taras Shevchenko's friend Hryhoriy Vashkevych, about working in archives, finding old books, working with sources, about the famine of 1932–1933 and his own activities and situation in the context of the Holodomor; journalist Anatoliy Nesterenko talks about Nudga's admission to Kharkiv University, reads material from the newspaper "Literary Ukraine"; recitation by the writer's granddaughter of her grandfather's favorite poems, which he read in Kolyma; memories of Hryhoriy Nudga's meeting with Maksym Rylsky; publication of Hryhoriy Nudga's works "Republic of Cossacks"; songs "A Cossack Traveled Beyond the Danube" interpreted by Beethoven and Ray Carroll ("Cossack Cha-cha-cha").

Comments: Doctor of Philology Mykola Ilnytsky; writer Rostyslav Bratun.

Journalists — Anatoliy Nesterenko, Mykola Petrenko.

Reference: Hryhoriy Antonovich Nudga - Ukrainian literary critic, folklorist and musicologist, researcher of literary and folklore relations and the history of Ukrainian song, candidate of philological sciences, honorary member of the National Theatre of Ukraine. His scientific achievements include fundamental works on genre and anthology, including the collection "Songs and Romances of Ukrainian Poets", the monographs "Parody in Ukrainian Literature" and "Ukrainian Ballad". Repressed in 1945 and a prisoner of the Gulag, after rehabilitation he worked in Lviv, but his scientific career remained limited despite international recognition.

Writer Hryhoriy Nudga

umy Television. The program "Constellation of Slobozhanshchyna. Music is his element" from February 24, 2006 is dedicated to the composer Yevhen Karpenko.

On the video: a performance of the choir, conducted by Yevhen Karpenko; comments from colleagues about the activities and creativity of Yevhen Karpenko; an interview with the composer, talks about life in Kharkiv, writing music, musical folklore of Sumy region; collections of songs by Karpenko; archival recordings of the choir's performances in the Philharmonic.

Comments: composer, associate professor of the Department of Art History of Sumy Pedagogical University Yevhen Karpenko; candidate of pedagogical sciences Alim Krychkivskyi; Honored Artist of Ukraine Ivan Zabolotny; deputy dean of the Faculty of Arts of Sumy Pedagogical University Svitlana Kramska.

Reference: Yevhen Karpenko is a Ukrainian composer, choral conductor and teacher, whose activities are associated with the development of professional choral education, musical pedagogy and the composer school of Sumy region in the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries. His creative output includes choral works, arrangements of regional folklore, vocal and choral music for children and youth, and children's operas.

Composer Yevhen Karpenko

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1989.

The documentary film "Tell Me..." is dedicated to the memory of the Ukrainian prose writer — one of the finest masters of the 20th-century short story — Hryhoriy Kosynka (real name — Strilets). The film presents the tragic life of the writer as a representative of the Executed Renaissance, destroyed by the Stalinist regime.

On the video: archival film footage featuring Hryhoriy Kosynka; photographs from the Strelets family archive; newspapers with execution lists; fragments of the film "Politics" based on a script adapted from works by Hryhoriy Kosynka; accounts of the repression of the writer; the apartment of the Strelets family.

The film uses fragments from the motion picture "Politics" directed by Borys Savchenko.

Comments: Hryhoriy Kosynka’s wife Tamara Moroz-Strilets; writer Hryhoriy Shton; historian and local studies researcher Lyudmila Protsenko; artist and writer Yuriy Logvin; student Mykhailo Gorlovy; Ukrainian Radio announcer Petro Boyko.

Reference: Hryhoriy Kosynka (Strelets) was a Ukrainian novelist and short story writer of the Executed Renaissance era, and a member of the literary associations "Grono" and "Lanka" (MARS). He was arrested on November 5, 1934, and shot on December 15, 1934, in Kyiv — rehabilitated posthumously in 1957. His major short story collections include "On the Golden Gods", "In Rye", and "Politics", as well as the censored collection "Heart" (prepared for publication in 1933). Kosynka’s literary phenomenon is defined by a modernized impressionistic and expressionistic short story form, characterized by a fragmentary "cinematic" narrative, concise phrasing, and a focus on the traumatic experience of revolution and civil war in the Ukrainian village.

Executed Renaissance: Hryhoriy Kosynka

Chernihiv Television, 2008. The episode of the program "Two Colors" is dedicated to the Ukrainian choirmaster and teacher Lyubomyr Bodnaruk.

On the video: a walk in Chernihiv; an interview with Lyubomyr Bodnaruk, he talks about his musical career, life and the creation of ensembles in the Chernihiv region; the Bodnaruk family, an interview at home, a story about meeting his wife; Lyubomyr Bodnaruk talks about his husband; daughter's comments about her father.

Comments: choirmaster Lyubomyr Bodnaruk; wife, editor of the regional television Lyubomyr Bodnaruk; daughter, Honored Artist of Ukraine Zhanna Bodnaruk-Karpenko; son-in-law, composer-arranger Anatoliy Karpenko.

Host — Tetyana Fedorova.

Reference: Lyubomyr Bodnaruk is a Ukrainian choirmaster, conductor and teacher, Honored Artist of Ukraine, whose professional activity since 1979 has been closely connected with the musical life of Chernihiv. Founder and long-time artistic director and chief conductor of the Dmytro Bortnianskyi Chernihiv Chamber Choir, which has gained recognition at the all-Ukrainian and international levels. His contribution includes the development of academic choral performance, musical education and the popularization of Ukrainian spiritual and classical choral heritage.

Choirmaster Lyubomyr Bodnaruk

January 11, 2003, Kyiv.

A plot about the celebration of the 90th anniversary of the last commander of the UPA, Vasyl Kuk. A round dance around the hero of the day, spectators in the hall, archival photos and videos of the UPA, a speech by Vasyl Kuk.

Vasyl Kuk's 90th anniversary

Vasyl Kuk, a general in the battalion, Roman Shukhevych's deputy, took part in the program "Echoes". He talks about Shukhevych and how he remembers him. The author and host of the program is Tamara Shapovalova. 

Stepan Kuk was a Ukrainian military leader, one of the leaders of the Ukrainian national liberation movement, general-corporal, leader of the UPA-South, and commander-in-chief of the UPA from 1950 to 1954 (after the death of Roman Shukhevych). He was captured by the troops of the USSR Ministry of State Security and spent 6 years in prison without a court order. The last years of his life he lived in Kyiv. He died on September 9, 2007. 

Roman Shukhevych was born on June 30, 1907, in Lviv. Ukrainian politician, public and statesman. Member of the Galician regional leadership of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists. He was an active member of the OUN, a general-corporal, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1943-1950), and head of the Secretariat of the Ukrainian Supreme Liberation Council (1943-1950). A fighter for Ukrainian independence in the twentieth century. Shukhevych was killed on March 5, 1950, during a special operation by the Soviet secret services to arrest him.

Vasyl Kuk - UPA's General-Corporal about Roman Shukhevych

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2002.

The episode "My Reader, Good Teacher.." of the program "Heroes of Ukraine" is dedicated to the Honored Teacher of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine Tamara Proshkuratova.

On the video: the "Hero of Ukraine" award, close-up; Cherkasy region, Drabivskyi district, school; Tamara Proshkuratova at work, demonstration of methods for teaching educational material; lessons; the Proshkuratov family, interview; photos from the family's personal archive; Tamara Proshkuratova's speech; Leonid Kuchma's speech; educational publications authored by Tamara Proshkuratova.

Comments: Director of the Drabivskyi School Olga Kravchenko; Honored Teacher of Ukraine, Hero of Ukraine Tamara Proshkuratova; Head of the Drabivskyi District Department of Education O. Snitko; teacher, poet Valentyna Stupachenko.

Journalist — Lydia Lutsenko.

Reference: Tamara Proshkuratova — Ukrainian teacher and politician, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 4th convocation, the first female teacher in Ukraine, awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine for her contribution to the development of national education and the introduction of integrated teaching methods. Her professional activities combined many years of pedagogical practice, authorship of teaching aids and work in the Committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on Science and Education.

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