The video features a story about Ukrainian football player and coach Valeriy Lobanovsky. 

The video uses archival footage of Lobanovskyi's time as a player at Dynamo, his coaching work in the USSR, the UAE and Kuwait. Also, his return to Dynamo and his work as the head coach of the Ukrainian national team. There are video fragments of the last football match played by Valeriy Lobanovsky and the installation of a monument to him near the Dynamo stadium in Kyiv. 

Valeriy Lobanovsky was born on January 6, 1939, in Kyiv. He is a long-time coach of Dynamo, and under his leadership the team has twice won the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. He coached the Ukrainian national team in 2000-2001. He is one of the most titled coaches in the history of Ukrainian football, the most titled coach of the XX century. He was awarded the Order of Merit, second class, Hero of Ukraine. 

Valery Lobanovsky died on May 13, 2002. 

Valeriy Lobanovsky: innovator, maestro, teacher 

May 15, 2003, Khmelnytsky Regional State TV and Radio Company “Podillya”. The program “Pure Word - Pure Thought” from the series “Art Channel”.

The video includes backgrounds, an interview with Professor Vasyl Lyzanchuk, Doctor of Philology, former Head of the Department of Radio and Television of the Faculty of Journalism at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Honored Journalist of Ukraine.

Interview with Professor Vasyl Lizanchuk

2000, Sumy Regional State TV and Radio Company. The program from the series “Fellow Countrymen” is dedicated to the history of the partisan movement in the Sumy region during World War II and the life of one of the leaders of the Ukrainian communist resistance movement, Sydir Kovpak.

The video features: introductions, the host, the Sumy Regional State Archive, archival documents, photographs, and black-and-white footage from the Second World War, a partisan dugout in the Spadshchansky Forest in Putivl district, S. Kovpak's memoirs read by the announcer of the Sumy Regional State Television and Radio Company Volodymyr Provorotsky, an original video recording with Kovpak's voice, and a monument to Kovpak in Putivl. An interview with Kateryna Konovalenko, the first radio operator-parachutist of the Kovpak connection.

Author: Iryna Bohdanova.

“Countrymen”: Sidor Kovpak

May 15, 1998, Kyiv.

A plot about the 50th anniversary party of the Ukrainian diplomat, poet, translator and literary critic of Georgian origin Raul Chilachava. Greetings, gifts and flowers are presented, a portrait is shown, and he recites his poem “Home”.

The anniversary of Raul Chilachava

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2003.

The episode of the program "Heroes of Ukraine" is dedicated to the Ukrainian politician and publicist Vyacheslav Chornovil.

On the video: biography of Vyacheslav Chornovil, photos from the family archive; interview with Vyacheslav Chornovil's wife Athena Pashko; photos and newsreels: Kyiv in the 1960s (streets, Khreshchatyk, Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Square); Chornovil's speeches at rallies in 1990, in the Verkhovna Rada, at meetings of the People's Movement of Ukraine, press conferences; laying flowers at his workplace in the session hall.

Reference: Vyacheslav Chornovil is a Ukrainian politician, publicist, dissident and political prisoner of the USSR. Founder of the underground magazine "Ukrainian Herald", member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, initiator of the creation of the People's Movement of Ukraine, its long-time chairman. He was a presidential candidate in the 1991 elections, was elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine three times. Died in a car accident in 1999.

Vyacheslav Chornovil: politician, dissident, Hero of Ukraine

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2015.

The documentary film “Star in the Form of a Square” from the series “Kyiv Antiquity. The World of Art” is dedicated to the work of the avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich.

The autobiography of Kazimir Malevich is told, a photo archive and fragments of the artist’s works are demonstrated. Contains a reconstruction of the futuristic opera “Victory over the Sun” performed by actors of the Stas Namin Theater.

Comments: PinchukArtCentre art critic Anna Gonchar; art critic professor Dmytro Gorbachev; art critic, collector Oleksandr Brey; Honored Artist of Ukraine Volodymyr Urvanov; head of the architectural workshop Heorhiy Dukhovychny.

Reference: Kazimir Malevich is a prominent Ukrainian and Russian avant-garde artist, the founder of Suprematism and a pioneer of Cubo-Futurism. Born in Kyiv to a Polish Catholic family, he was educated at various art institutions, actively participated in numerous exhibitions and taught at leading institutes. The futuristic opera "Victory over the Sun" is the avant-garde work by Mikhail Matyushin and Oleksiy Kruchenykh; during its premiere, Kazimir Malevich's "Black Square" appeared on stage for the first time, which became a symbol of abstract art.

Kazimir Malevich “Star in the Form of a Square”

May 14, 2005, Kyiv.

Footage of the 85th anniversary of Yaroslava Stetsko (Slava Stetsko), head of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists, co-organizer of the UPA Red Cross, and 2nd leader of the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Peoples. Auditorium with the activist's comrades-in-arms, portrait of Slava, archival footage of her activities, Stetsko in the Verkhovna Rada, church, funeral.

Commentary: former UPA Commander-in-Chief Vasyl Kuk; MP Ivan Plyushch; Yaroslava Stetsko's niece Lesia Bratsiun.

On the 85th anniversary of Slava Stetsko

1993, Ukrainian Television Film Studio. The program “Two Wings of Levko Matsiyevych” is dedicated to the ship's engineer and the first aviator of Ukrainian origin.

The video features: screensavers, archival photos and videos, an interview with Ukrainian writer and aviation historian Yevhenia Korolova, footage of Oleksandrivka village in Kirovohrad region, newspaper articles.

Reference: Levko Matsiyevych (1877-1910) was the first aviator of Ukrainian descent, engineer, inventor, and public figure. He was educated in Kharkiv and St. Petersburg, served in the Black Sea Fleet, and designed submarines and aircraft carriers. In 1910, he received his pilot's license in France. He was an activist of the Ukrainian national movement and co-founder of the Revolutionary Ukrainian Party. He died during a demonstration flight in St. Petersburg, the first plane crash with human casualties in the Russian Empire.

Author: Volodymyr Kolodyazhnyi.

Two wings of Levko Maciejewicz

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2000.

The issue of the program "Heroes of Ukraine" is dedicated to the pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of Ukraine Leonid Kadenyuk.

On the video: USA, Space Training Center (September 1997), Leonid Kadenyuk's flight into space, a fragment of the video recorded on board the spaceship; the village of Klishkivtsi, Chernivtsi region, landscapes and residents of the village; the astronaut's native house, Leonid Kadenyuk's mother talks about her son; Leonid Kadenyuk talks about the flight into space, fragments of archival interviews; People's Artist of Ukraine Anatoly Solovyanenko talks about Kadenyuk.

Contains fragments of video materials of preparation for the space flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia of the STS-87 mission (from November 19 to December 5, 1997).

Reference: Leonid Kadenyuk is a Ukrainian test pilot, cosmonaut and major general of aviation, the first astronaut of independent Ukraine, a participant in the NASA STS-87 mission (1997).

Leonid Kadenyuk: the history of the STS-87 mission

2007, National Television Company of Ukraine. The documentary Two Lives of Iryna Wilde was created to mark the 100th anniversary of the Ukrainian writer Iryna Wilde (Daryna Makohon).

The video includes screensavers, archival photos and video documents, footage from the writer's funeral, copies of her books, Wilde's native place in Bukovyna, a battle song of the UPA fighters, Yaremche, and black-and-white newsreels.

The film features: writers Roman Horak, Roman Ivanychuk, Anatoliy Dimarov, and Volodymyr Yavorivsky; son Yarema Polotniuk; granddaughter Solomiia Polotniuk; writer Marta Dziuba; and artist Yevhen Beznisko.

Author: Teodoziya Zarivna.

Two lives of Iryna Wilde

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2002.

The TV film "Memories of Kyrylo Stetsenko" is dedicated to the famous composer, student of Mykola Lysenko, Kyrylo Stetsenko.

On the video: the Stetsenko family, grandchildren talk about their grandfather and the home archive; Kyrylo Stetsenko's biography, photos; Kyrylo Stetsenko's Museum-Estate in the village of Vepryk, Poltava region, exposition, personal belongings of the composer.

In the background of the program, excerpts from the works of Kyrylo Stetsenko sound.

Comments: the composer's grandson, violinist Kyrylo Stetsenko; choirmaster in the village of Vepryk P. Kovalenko.

Reference: Kyrylo Stetsenko — Ukrainian composer, choir conductor, teacher and priest. As a successor to the traditions of Mykola Lysenko, he created significant achievements in the field of choral, church and theatrical music, combining folk song intonation with modern musical technique. He actively participated in the cultural and educational life of the UNR, was the organizer of the Republican Chapel and a participant in the First Council of the UAOC.


Kyrylo Stetsenko — founder of the choir of the UNR

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2001.

The episode of the program "Heroes of Ukraine" is dedicated to the Ukrainian track and field athlete (pole vault), world champion Sergey Bubka.

On the video: footage of Sergey Bubka's performances accompanied by a story about his sports career; a monument in Donetsk is shown; fragments of press conferences where Sergey Bubka announces the end of his career; a speech by the head of the Donetsk Regional State Administration, Viktor Yanukovych, who reads out the presidential decree on awarding Bubka the title of Hero of Ukraine.

Recordings of Sergey Bubka's performances at the world championships were used: in Helsinki in 1983, in Rome in 1987, in Tokyo in 1991, in Stuttgart in 1993, in Gothenburg in 1995 and in Athens in 1997.

Author — Yefim Sharpansky.

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