2005, National Television Company of Ukraine. The episode of the program "Harmony of the Soul" is dedicated to the Hero of Ukraine, Ukrainian literary critic, teacher, president of the National University "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" Vyacheslav Bryukhovetsky.

On the video: screensavers, interviews with Vyacheslav Bryukhovetsky at work and at home, photos from the personal archive, university students, footage from the Orange Revolution. The following people talk about Vyacheslav Bryukhovetsky: daughter Olga Bryukhovetskaya; journalist Andriy Shevchenko; students; writer Oksana Zabuzhko; musicians Oleg Skrypka and Svyatoslav Vakarchuk.

Author: Serhiy Lapchenko.

"Harmony of the Soul": Vyacheslav Bryukhovetsky

Khmelnytskyi Television, 1999. The program "What is it, the harvest of my labor..." is dedicated to the rector of Khmelnytskyi National University, Professor Radomir Silin.

On the video: Podillya Technological University; interview with Radomir Silin; archival records from the rector's youth; blitz poll of students about the rector; colleagues talk about Radomir Silin's achievements; home photo archive, professor in his youth; interview with his wife; wishes of colleagues.

Comments: Deputy Minister of Education of Ukraine Vitaly Tomashenko; Rector of Podillya Technological University Radomir Silin; Dean of the correspondence faculty of TUP Yaroslav Hladkyi; Head of Khmelnytskyi City Administration Mykhailo Chekman; General Director of JSC "Pryzma-Press" Serhiy Vasylyshyn; wife Lesya Silin; Professor, Vice-Rector of TUP Mykhailo Voinarenko.

Reference: Radomir Silin is a Ukrainian scientist in the field of technology and mechanical engineering, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Academician of a number of Ukrainian and international scientific academies, author of over 220 scientific papers. In 1974–2001, he headed the Khmelnytskyi Institute of Consumer Services and the Podillia Technological University, playing a key role in forming the modern structure of the Khmelnytskyi National University. He was the president of the National Committee of Ukraine on Mechanical Engineering and was awarded state and municipal awards for his contribution to the development of higher technical education.


Scientist and teacher Radomir Silin

2005, Vinnytsia Regional State Television and Radio Company. The program "Life of an Earthly Ideal" is dedicated to the doctor, scientist, and teacher Mykola Pirogov.

In the video: screensavers, Mykola Pirogov's estate-museum in Vinnytsia, museum exhibits, paintings, archival documents, letters, publications, Pirogov's embalmed body. The video uses footage from the feature film "Mykola Pirogov" and the documentary film "Hostage of Time".

Author: Oksana Danilchenko.

Reference: Mykola Pirogov is a surgeon and scientist, one of the founders of military field surgery. He was born in the russian Empire, and lived and worked for a significant part of his life in modern Ukraine, in particular in the Vyshnia estate near Vinnytsia. He was the first in medicine to systematically use ether anesthesia, plaster casts, and introduce sorting of the wounded (triage) in the field.

Scientist-surgeon Nikolai Pirogov

2009, National Television Company of Ukraine. A documentary film from the series ‘Memory’ dedicated to UPA centurion Myroslav ‘Kryvonis’ Symchych.

The video features: opening credits, the villages of Verkhne and Kosmach, an interview with Myroslav Symchych, photo archives, black-and-white newsreel footage from World War II, and a reconstruction of military events. Comments: Ivan Fitsych, rifleman of the ‘Moroz’ company; eyewitnesses from the village of Kosmach — Anastasia Dzvinchuk, Oleksa Barbinchuk, Ivan Klymiuk.

Authors: Oleksandr Ryabokrys, Andriy Danylenko.

UPA Centurion Myroslav Symchych

2007, Ternopil Regional State Television and Radio Company. Broadcast of the programme ‘Literary Salon’.

The video features an interview with Ukrainian writer Maria Matios. The host is critic and candidate of philological sciences Petro Soroka.

Interview with Maria Matios

1998, National Television Company of Ukraine. Broadcast of the programme ‘In the Beginning Was the Word...’. Host — Teodozia Zarivna.

Video interview with writer, literary scholar, Doctor of Philology, and daughter of poet Dmytro Pavlychko, Solomiya Pavlychko. Studio, the writer's books, conversation about her creative path, work abroad, translations of works, scientific works. Comments: critic Lyudmila Taran; Doctor of Philology, critic Volodymyr Morenets.

Reference: Solomiya Pavlychko was a Ukrainian literary scholar, cultural studies expert, translator, and researcher of modernism and feminist criticism. She was the founder of the Osnovy publishing house. She died in 1999 as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning in her own apartment. 

Interview with Solomiya Pavlychko

1998, National Television Company of Ukraine. Programme ‘Ivan Mazepa — Hetman of Ukraine’. Hosted by historian S. Sachenko.

Video: opening credits, the village of Mazepyntsi, portrait of Hetman Petro Doroshenko, portraits of Mazepa, historical documents, Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, archival video from 23 August 1992 showing the lifting of the anathema from Ivan Mazepa in St. Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv. Commentary: Professor at York University in Toronto, historian Orest Subtelny.

‘Ivan Mazepa — Hetman of Ukraine’

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1982.

The film "Today and Every Day..." is dedicated to the outstanding scientist in the field of welding, metallurgy and metal technology, president of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, academician Boris Yevgenyevich Paton.

On the video: landscapes of Kyiv; interview with Boris Paton; E. O. Paton Electric Welding Institute; Boris Paton talks about his life, studies, work at defense plants during World War II; trips of the scientist to different cities, conversations with colleagues, memories; stories about Yevgeny Paton; fellow engineers, academicians and students share their impressions of working with Boris Paton, talk about his scientific developments and achievements; achievements of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.

Comments: three times Hero of Socialist Labor, President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician Anatoly Alexandrov; twice Hero of Socialist Labor, President of the Armenian SSR Academy of Sciences, Academician Viktor Ambartsumian; Hero of Socialist Labor, Chairman of the USSR State Commission for Foreign Economic Relations Semen Skachkov; Chairman of the Presidium of the Ural Scientific Center of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician Sergey Vonsovsky; Chairman of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Vice-President of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Academician Valentin Koptyug; twice Hero of the Soviet Union, USSR pilot-cosmonaut Valery Kubasov; Director of Uralvagonzavod Veniamin Sotnikov; Candidate of Technical Sciences Platon Sevbo; workers of the E. O. Paton PES Research Plant and veterans of Uralvagonzavod.

Director — Olena Mashkara.

The film is dubbed in russian languages.

Reference: Boris Paton (1918-2020) was an engineer, academician, and politician. He worked in the field of welding processes, metallurgy, and metal technology. From 1953 to 2020, he was director of the E. Paton Electric Welding Institute. In 1962, he became head of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR (later the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and remained its president until his death. Boris Paton was a member of a number of domestic and foreign scientific organizations. He was awarded a number of state awards, including, on November 26, 1998, he was the first to receive the title of Hero of Ukraine, the highest state award.

Interview with Boris Paton, 1982

2009, Ternopil Regional State Television and Radio Company. Programme ‘Literary Salon’.

Video interview with Ukrainian poet, member of the Shistdesiatnyky movement, diplomat, winner of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize, Hero of Ukraine — Dmytro Pavlychko. Host — Svitlana Shveda.

Interview with Dmytro Pavlychko, 2009

2015, National Television Company of Ukraine. A programme from the series ‘Ukrainian Dream’ dedicated to the life and work of Ukrainian poet Vasyl Symonenko, a member of the Shistdesiatnyky (Sixties) literary movement. Hosted by Yurii Shapoval.

The video features: opening credits, archival footage of historical events in Ukrainian history, black-and-white newsreels, Vasyl Symonenko's books, poetry recitations, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, the writer's letters and documents, and Vasyl Symonenko's childhood home. 

The writer is discussed by: director and public figure Les Taniuk; writer Ivan Drach; writer Petro Zasenko.

Author: Yurii Shapoval.

‘Silence and Thunder. Vasyl Symonenko’

2002, National Television Company of Ukraine. A programme from the series ‘Chronicle of the 20th Century’ dedicated to Ukrainian writer Mykola Khvylovy. Hosted by Mykola Zhulinsky.

In the video: opening credits; academician Mykola Zhulinsky and writer Les Taniuk talk about Mykola Khvylovy's life, work, path to literature, and view of Ukrainian culture; excerpt from the programme ‘I (Romanticism)’; excerpt from Khvylovy's poem ‘Sun, I am such a romantic...’.

The life and work of Mykola Khvylovy

2007, National Television Company of Ukraine. The documentary film ‘Shchedryk, Shchedryk...’ is dedicated to the outstanding Ukrainian composer, conductor, and teacher Mykola Leontovych.

The video features: opening credits, stories about the composer, the Kamianets-Podilskyi Theological Seminary, photographs of Leontovych, fragments of newsreels, People's Artist of Ukraine Yevhen Svaichuk at choir rehearsals (performing works arranged by M. Leontovych).

The following individuals discuss the composer, his life story and tragic death, his sources of creative inspiration, and the life paths that led him to music: Doctor of Philosophy Valentina Kuzyk; poet Ivan Drach; Professor Anatoliy Zavalnyuk; and folklorist Hanna Koval.

Author: Tetiana Milenina.

Reference: Mykola Leontovych (1877–1921) was a Ukrainian composer, choir conductor, teacher, and author of the world-famous ‘Shchedryk.’ A master of choral arrangements, he was one of the founders of the national music school. He was killed on the night of 23 January 1921 in the village of Markivka by Afanasy Gryschenko, an agent of the Cheka (All-Russian Extraordinary Commission).

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