12 March 2020, Kyiv.

Video of the operational briefing by Viktor Lyashko, Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine, on the coronavirus situation in Ukraine and worldwide. The Cabinet of Ministers building, city pharmacies, people buying medicines.

Coronavirus: Viktor Lyashko's briefing, 2020

Video from the personal archive of Yaroslav Kendzor.

August 21, 1991, Kyiv.

In the video: October Revolution Square (now Independence Square), rows of police officers, People's Artist of Ukraine Nila Kryukova thanks the police officers and military, asks not to show violence towards people, conversation; People's Deputy Yaroslav Kendzor speaks in the background, the police officers smile.

People's Artist of Ukraine Nila (Neonila) Kryukova comments.

Kendzor Archives: Police and Neonila Kryukova

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1981.

The documentary film "Mood Service" is dedicated to the work of Soviet sociologists of the "Dniproshyna" association.

On the video: Taras Shevchenko Central Park of Culture and Recreation, Dnipropetrovsk (now Dnipro), children on rides, a walk; office, sociologist talking to workers; head of the laboratory talks about the work, responsibilities of the sociological research team; production, workers, workshop; families of employees of the tire and rubber products factory "Dniproshyna" on vacation in the park; drawing workshop.

Comments: head of the sociological research laboratory of the Dnipropetrovsk association "Dniproshyna" Vyacheslav Bilenky; general director of "Dniproshyna" Volodymyr Kuznetsov; chief artist of "Dniproshyna" Dmitry Turuk.

The film is dubbed in russian languages.

"Mood Service": The Work of Soviet Sociologists

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1988.

The documentary film "Mothers, Dear Mothers" is dedicated to the fate of young mothers with many children through the prism of the life stories of P. Fedorenko and M. Zavaletska from the village of Bilhorodka, Kyiv region.

In the video, two young mothers talk about their large families, the challenges they face, and raising children.

The film is dubbed in russian languages.

The fate of young mothers

2017, National Television Company of Ukraine. Episode of the programme ‘Declassified History.’ Topic: ‘Military Secrets: Myths about Folk Avengers. Koryukivka.’ Host: Oleksandr Zinchenko.

In the video: opening credits, newsreel footage, the host and studio guests discuss the mass destruction of civilians in the village of Koryukivka during the Nazi punitive action in 1943.

Studio guests: historians Vladislav Grynevych, Oleksandr Lysenko, Volodymyr Hinda.

Koryukivka: myths about people's avengers

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2011.

The documentary film "The Righteous" is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the tragedy in Babyn Yar and the righteous people who saved prisoners during World War II.

On the video: memories of the Righteous of Ukraine about how they saved Jews from the occupying power; fragments of films; photographs of the saved people.

Comments: Archbishop Emeritus of the UGCC Lyubomyr Huzar, President of the Jewish Council of Ukraine Ilya Levitas, director of the play "Andrey" Fedir Stryhun, Father Dean I. Barbuliak, founder of the Kharkiv Holocaust Museum Larisa Volovyk; The Righteous Among the Nations of Ukraine share their memories: Lina Shulga-Antonets, Yuriy Grot, Dmytro and Lydia Omelyanyuk, Sofia Boyko-Yarova.

The film uses materials from the Kharkiv Holocaust Museum, the Museum of the Holy Protection Monastery of the Studite Order, the Israeli National Holocaust and Heroism Memorial "Yad Vashem", fragments of the films "Schindler's List", "The Pianist", "With a Camera on the Eastern Front", "The Priest of Majdanek", "Women from Babyn Yar Street".

Reference: Righteous Among the Nations is an honorary title that the State of Israel, through the Yad Vashem institution, grants to non-Jews who, risking their own lives, saved Jews during the Holocaust without expecting material reward. Recognition is carried out by a special commission according to strict criteria based on documentary evidence and testimonies, and the distinguished individuals receive a medal, a certificate and a memorial honor.

Babyn Yar: Righteous Among the Nations

State enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1995.

The documentary film "Boykos" is dedicated to the ethnographic group of Ukrainians living in the Carpathians; the film tells about their history, traditions and prominent cultural figures who come from this ethnic group.

On the video: Boyko Christmas traditions, prayer, decorating the house, bringing in the didukh; Boyko history; musicians performing folk music, landscapes of the Carpathians; comments by historians and ethnographers; a story about beliefs, features of the Christian rite of the Boykos; pottery and woodworking; The first Boyko festivals in the city of Turka.

Comments by Doctor of Historical Sciences, Director of the Lviv Institute of Ethnology Stepan Pavlyuk.

Reference: Boykos are an ethnographic group of Ukrainians who historically live in the central part of the Ukrainian Carpathians. They have preserved distinctive features of traditional material and spiritual culture: wooden sacral architecture of the tripartite type, original structure, archaic wedding and calendar rites, polyphonic choral singing and specific dialects with characteristic linguistic features. In the traditional economy of the Boykos, mountain cattle breeding, agriculture, forestry and salt production played a leading role. Today, their cultural heritage is an important component of the regional identity of the Carpathians.

Boyko traditions

February 17, 2022, Mariupol, Donetsk region.

A report about volunteer Valentina Kostyantynivska, who joined the territorial defense forces on the eve of a full-scale invasion. Footage from shooting courses, weaving camouflage nets, and an interview with Valentina.

Volunteer from Mariupol

State enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1992.

The TV film "Blaga vist" is dedicated to the fate of children who became victims of the Chernobyl disaster.

On the video: hospital, children in the ward; mothers talk about the health of their children, radiation diseases, blood diseases; families from Polissya being examined by doctors, talking about the treatment process, finding specialists, the difficulty of treatment in Ukraine, lack of funds for foreign rehabilitation; various plans of sick children.

The film contains sensitive footage.

Chernobyl tragedy: children's diseases

February 25, 2024, Kyiv.

Video: Independence Square, farewell ceremony for Stepan Khmara, open coffin; people bring flowers, hugs, dissident's family; among those present at the commemoration are Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov, People's Deputy Yulia Tymoshenko; speeches on the Square, beginning of the burial ceremony of Ukrainian dissident Stepan Khmara.

The video contains sensitive content.

Reference: Stepan Khmara is a Ukrainian politician, human rights activist and dissident, a long-time political prisoner of Soviet concentration camps, People's Deputy of Ukraine. One of the leading participants in the national liberation movement of the late 20th century, an active figure in the Ukrainian Helsinki Union and the Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party. Hero of Ukraine, holder of the Order of Freedom and the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise.

Stepan Khmara: Farewell Ceremony

2016, National Television Company of Ukraine. Broadcast of the program “Public University.” Lecture topic: The Endless Path of Kazimir Malevich. Host — Gennady Popenko.

In the video: opening credits, guests in the studio, lecturer giving a lecture, guests asking questions. Lecturer — architect Dmitry Antonyuk.

Guests of the program: designer Fedir Vozianov; sculptor Carlos Garcia Lahos.

“Public University”: Kazimir Malevich

A story about the commemoration of those killed during the Revolution of Dignity, the fifth anniversary. 

As a result of a sniper's bullet and clashes with Berkut soldiers, the first to die were Maidan activists Serhiy Nigoyan, Mykhailo Zyzhnevsky, Roman Senyk, Yuriy Verbytsky and Oleksandr Badera. 

In the video: a solemn procession to Hrushevskoho Street, laying flowers and lighting candles. Volunteer Svitlana Tereykovska tells about her acquaintance with Serhiy Nigoyan. A memorial service at the memorial to the Heavenly Hundred heroes. 

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