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Fedorivka talk about the life and professional path of Georgy Berehovy, share memories; awarding the pilot, chronicle, historical reference.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

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".

Art critic Borys Voznytsky

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".

The Sixtiers writer Yevhen Sverstyuk 

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2012.

The documentary film "On the Threshold of History. Mykhailo Hrushevsky" is dedicated to the young years of the outstanding Ukrainian political figure Mykhailo Hrushevsky.

On the video: Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, various plans of the main building; Ukrainian professor Leonid Zashkilnyak talks about Mykhailo Hrushevsky, the formation of the figure in his youth; archival photographs; the influence of the Galician environment on the formation of Hrushevsky; comments from researchers.

Comments: Honorary President of the Ukrainian International PEN Club, writer and essayist Yevhen Sverstyuk; Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences Natalia Yakovenko; Publicist Vitaliy Portnikov; Candidate of Historical Sciences Ihor Hyrych; Professor, Doctor of Historical Sciences Leonid Zashkilnyak; Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Myroslav Popovych; Professors, Doctors of Historical Sciences Ihor Verba, Yaroslav Hrytsak.

Host — Yuriy Shapoval.

Reference: Mykhailo Hrushevskyi was formed as a historian in the Kyiv scientific environment under the influence of Volodymyr Antonovych, where he combined university education with participation in the Ukrainian intellectual movement and early research into the history of Ukraine. During the Lviv period (1894–1914), he headed the Taras Shevchenko Scientific Society, transformed it into a scientific center of European level and laid the foundations for the systematic study of Ukrainian history, in particular through the work "History of Ukraine-Rus".

"On the Threshold of History: Mykhailo Hrushevsky": documentary film

2010: the feature ‘Culture Loses Poplavsky’ on the musical career of People's Artist, politician and university rector Mykhailo Poplavsky. 

In the video: footage from a cooking show and concerts, Poplavsky driving a combine harvester and in a mine, footage from the music video ‘Young Eagle’, photos from rallies in support of Poplavsky, footage from a musical, tickets to Poplavsky’s final concert, fans, the 95th Quarter, dancing, a concert, a journalist’s stand-up routine, Leonid Chernovetskyi singing. 

Comments: producer, Volodymyr Bebeshko; Mykhailo Poplavskyi; supporters Anna and Denys Klimov, Lyudmyla Kovalchuk-Novosad; psychoanalyst Svitlana Uvarova.

The musical career of Mikhail Poplavsky

2015, National Television Company of Ukraine. The programme ‘Smolosypik’ is dedicated to the dissident and human rights activist Vasyl Makukh, who sacrificed himself in protest against the invasion of Czechoslovakia by Soviet troops.

In the video: opening sequences, old newsreels (Kyiv, a pre-revolutionary village, villages in the Kariv district of Lviv Oblast), archive photographs and documents relating to Vasyl Makukh, a cemetery.
Vasyl Makukh’s comrades, friends and relatives recall his life and heroic deed: his nephews Petro Makukh, Yaroslava Osmylovska, Melania Kleban and Ivan Kulynich; the family’s neighbours Mykola Datsyshyn and Teodozia Datsyshyn; fellow villager Maria Shevchuk; researcher into Vasyl Makukh’s life Oleksandr Kutenko; artist, poet and fellow villager Stepan Ivasyko; deputy director for research at the ‘Smoloskyp’ Museum Lyudmyla Ogneva; former political prisoner Maria Kushpeta-Petronchuk; researcher at the Sectoral State Archive of the SBU, Yaroslav Antoniuk; wife of Ivan Humenyuk’s comrade-in-arms, Hanna Humenyuk; former political prisoner Ivan Migus; head of department at the Dnipropetrovsk National Museum of Dmytro Yavornytskyi, Nadiya Shemina; local historian, researcher of Oleksa Hirnyk’s life and winner of the Oleksa Hirnyk Prize, Mykhailo Ishchenko; and rector of the Church of Saints Anthony and Theodosius in Dnipropetrovsk, Oleksandr Serbin.

Author: Oleksandr Ryabokrys, with the contribution of Andrii Danylenko.

Background: Vasyl Makukh was a Ukrainian dissident, a soldier in the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and a human rights activist, known for his protests against Soviet rule. In 1968, he publicly set himself on fire on Khreshchatyk Street in Kyiv, protesting against the Soviet occupation and Russification of Ukraine, and against the USSR’s aggression against Czechoslovakia.

Torchbearer: Vasyl Makukh

Ternopil Television. The program "They Glorified Our Land" from January 15, 2012 is dedicated to the leader of Ukrainian nationalism Yaroslav Stetsko.

On the video: Ternopil region, various plans; archival videos with Yaroslav Stetsko; museum complex exposition dedicated to Stetsko; researchers talk about the ideologist; printed publications of the museum.

Comments: Candidate of Historical Sciences Fedir Polyansky; Director of the Yaroslav Stetsko Memorial Museum Complex Myron Sahaidak.

Reference: Yaroslav Stetsko — Ukrainian politician, ideologist and leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, one of the authors of the Act of Restoration of the Ukrainian State of June 30, 1941 and Chairman of the Ukrainian State Board. After his imprisonment in a German concentration camp, Sachsenhausen headed the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Peoples and the OUN(b) Leadership, playing an important role in the international anti-communist activities of the Ukrainian political emigration.

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