August 11, 2008, Beijing, China.

The plot "Olympics behind the scenes". Ukrainian House in Beijing, Ukrainian delegation meets foreign guests, buffet, President of the International Olympic Committee Jacques Rogge tastes loaf and vodka, portrait of Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian Olympic champion Yana Klochkava and Ukrainian swimmer Oleh Lisohor are present.

Comments: President of the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine Serhiy Bubka; Chairman of the Olympic Committee in Cameroon; guest of the event; actor Borys Barsky.

Ukrainian House in Beijing, 2008

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1994.

The documentary film "The Sixth Sense" is dedicated to the study of Ukrainian humor as a folk tradition.

On the video: a performance by actor Bohdan Stupka, reciting "Aeneid" by Ivan Kotlyarevsky; Odesa, "Day of Laughter"; Anatoliy Palamarenko about the power of humor in the life of a Ukrainian; a poll of Ukrainians "what is humor for you?" and "what is Ukrainian humor?", mentions of famous comedians; a recording of the awarding of Ukrainian actor and comedian Andriy Sova; scenes from Soviet films with the participation of Ukrainian comedians; Ukrainians tell humorous stories; reflections on the face of Ukrainian humor.

Comments: People's Artist of Ukraine Anatoliy Palamarenko; writer Petro Rebro; People's Artist of Ukraine Neonila Kryukova; Ukrainian actor Volodymyr Dalsky; artist Yevhen Perebyinis; daughter Ostap Vyshnya Maria Gubenko; Ukrainian actors Anatoly Demchuk, Volodymyr Mosienko, Volodymyr Danylenko.

Director — Borys Kvashnev.


What is Ukrainian humor?

The plot for October 23, 2019 is dedicated to the opening of the Plast Year in different parts of Ukraine.

On the video: the opening ceremony in Ternopil, hosted by Zoya Karpiuk; Bucha, Kyiv region, Plast Training Center; Plast Center in Uzhgorod; blitz poll of Plast members.

Comments: Plast member Demyan-Bogdan Nahirnyak; Plast Deputy Head for Regional Development Natalya Sherekina; Plast Head Stanislav Andriychuk; Head of the Uzhgorod Center Ishtvan Udut.

"Plast": Opening of the Plast Year

Program "Pro et Contra", January 30, 1999. The episode is dedicated to the mood of Ukrainians and their attitude to the abolition of the death penalty in Ukraine.

On the video: statistical data of a survey on people's moods, a court session, the hall of the Council of Europe, a blitz poll on the abolition of the death penalty. Comments by the People's Deputy of Ukraine Hennadiy Udovenko and the delegate from Ukraine in Strasbourg Serhiy Holovaty.

Reference: The abolition of the death penalty became a condition for Ukraine's accession to the Council of Europe. In 1997, a moratorium on its implementation was introduced, and in 1999 the Constitutional Court declared the death penalty unconstitutional. In 2000, the Verkhovna Rada finally removed it from the Criminal Code.

Ukrainians' attitude towards the abolition of the death penalty

Youth studio “Gart,” 1993.

The program includes stories: “In Memory of Artist Olena Dukhnevych” — a story about the artist's work, memories of her parents and friends, paintings; about young people who fundamentally do not want to work in factories, and instead trade in markets — the clothing market at the Republican Stadium, interview: Valery Plokhy — head of the Main Department for Youth Affairs; story “Who is the bell ringing for?” — a story about the work of “sorceress” Kolsana Dalma; Donetsk furniture and consumer goods manufacturing company Donbas-Liberty, interview with director V. Boiko; Podium section; story “Our man in the West” — a story about the Guta resort.

The program includes video clips and a film excerpt. Part of the interview is in Russian. 

They don't want to work in factories: episode of the “Gart” studio

State enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1990.

The television film "Because I Love" is dedicated to a social study of the problems of education of youth, the origins of cruelty and offenses, the shortcomings of the existing system of forced re-education of minors in correctional labor colonies and the difficult path of return to society.

On the video: a colony in the city of Pryluky, Chernihiv region, department of the Correctional Labor Force; youth aged 14 to 18 receive early release; teenagers from Kyiv smoke cigarettes, hug, are on a walk; interviewing minors in the colony, stories about their own life path, reflection on their actions and ideas about the future; "Kyiv Reception-Distributor for Minors", sports classes, children perform exercises, a policeman controls the duel of boys; a canteen in colonies, different plans; young offenders talk about informal rules of life in places of deprivation of liberty; colony yard, young men from different plans; survey of young people about social gap in society, reasons for committing crimes, prison jargon; psychological recovery in the colony, exercises under the supervision of a specialist; factory where offenders work, working days, machines; tattooing of offenders; young men talk about fears of the process of integration into society after release; writer Yuriy Pokalchuk's trip, communicates with young people.

Comment on minors in places of deprivation of liberty, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR, the Department of Internal Affairs of the Kyiv City Executive Committee, the administration of the Pryluky City Criminal Investigation Department, writer Yuriy Pokalchuk.

Education of youth in a penal colony

Lviv Television, 1996. The program “Concert of Greetings” — a festive broadcast before Christmas. Hosts: Petro Ostapyshyn and Iryna Haidamaka. 

Christmas carols and songs performed by Yaroslav and Natalia Dub, Ivo Bobul and Lilia Sandulesa, Igor Bogdan, Pavlo Zibrov, Vitaliy Bilonozhko, the chamber ensemble “Krynytsia” and others. 

Concert greeting: 1996

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1994.

The TV film "Viva, Academy!" is dedicated to the history of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

On the video: Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, modern filming; old prints; archival video of the restoration of the academy in 1992, speech by the first President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk, speech, student procession; student teaching, audience; English lesson, listening booths; historical information about Petro Mohyla and the Kyiv-Mohyla Collegium; university library; history of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy until its liquidation; underground life of the academy, samizdat, work of the printing house; students inspect the board with rating points.

Comments: Rector of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Serhiy Ivanyuk; President of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Vyacheslav Bryukhovetsky; Dean of the Faculty of Humanities of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy Vilen Horsky; Historian, Lecturer Vasyl Tkachenko; Head of the Podolsk Archaeological Expedition Mykhailo Sagaydak.

Director — Serhiy Dudka.

Reference: The National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is a state institution of higher education in Kyiv, restored in 1991 on the historical territory of Podolsk after a long break caused by the liquidation of the academy in the imperial and Soviet periods. The process of the university's revival in the 1990s took place in conditions of institutional uncertainty, limited funding and relied largely on public initiative, charity and informal academic networks, which gave it the features of a semi-underground intellectual environment. In modern Ukraine, NaUKMA is one of the key centers of humanitarian and social education, a symbol of the institutional continuity of early modern academic traditions.

History of the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

1999, National Television Company of Ukraine. The cultural and historical series "The Last Address" is dedicated to the release of the archival collection "Polish Underground 1939-1941" from the series "Unknown Documents".

On the video: intros, stand-up by Doctor of Historical Sciences and host Yuriy Shapoval, interview with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the Republic of Poland Dmytro Pavlychko about how the publication of this great work will help relations between Ukraine and Poland; book presentation; interview with Deputy Head of the SBU Volodymyr Prystaiko, director of the Warsaw publishing house "Rhythm" Tadeusz Katarsky, director of the Central Archive Oleksandr Pshennikov; documents, archival files, photos and other documents from the book; Old Town in Warsaw; participants of the presentation sing the Ukrainian song "Oh, whose horse is standing...".

Author: Yuriy Shapoval.

Reference: publishing series "Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s–1940s. Unknown documents of special services", containing archival materials about the Polish underground, Operation Vistula, the Holodomor, the Great Terror, the resettlement of Poles and Ukrainians in 1944–1946, and other events. The series is the largest archival and documentary project in the post-Soviet space and includes 8 bilingual volumes, which include over 1,200 documents from Ukrainian and Polish archives. The project is being implemented in cooperation with Polish institutions and was launched in 1996.

Archival collection "Polish Underground 1939-1941"

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1996.

The film is dedicated to the history of banking and the founding of the National Bank of Ukraine.

On the video: the National Bank of Ukraine, building; historical information about the emergence of banks; banking in Ukraine, history of the Kyiv office of the State Bank, archival photographs of the 19th–20th centuries; creation of the National Bank of Ukraine, speech by the Chairman of the NBU Viktor Yushchenko; tour of the NBU premises, functions of the National Bank of Ukraine; comments by Viktor Kravets.

Comments: Chairman of the NBU Viktor Yushchenko; Chairman of the Board of the Joint-Stock Commercial Agro-Industrial Bank "Ukraine" Viktor Kravets.

History of the National Bank of Ukraine

2001, National Television Company of Ukraine. The program from the series "History of Ukrainian Statehood" is dedicated to the emergence of the Haidamatsky movement in Ukraine in the second half of the XVIII century.

On the video: screensavers, Koliiv region, Cherkasy, Cherkasy regional museum of local lore, historical documents, maps, textbooks, images, paintings, portraits, Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine (CSIDU), Chyhyryn region, footage from historical feature films, Pope John Paul II in Ukraine.

Comments: Doctor of Historical Sciences Anatoliy Chaban; Senior Research Fellow of the CSIDU in Kyiv Viktor Strashko.

Author: Oleksandr Ryabokrys. Text read by: Vitaliy Roztalny.

The Haidamak movement in Ukraine

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1993.

A film from the series "Native Land" is dedicated to Ukrainian Greeks living in the territory of modern Ukraine.

On the video: a survey of Ukrainians, what they associate Greece and the Greeks with; a story about the Azov Greeks; landscapes of Crimea, a survey of the inhabitants of the peninsula about the Greek community; the history of the settlement of the territories of Ukraine by the Greeks; the village of Maksymivka (now Bugas, Donetsk region), traditions of a Greek wedding; a story about the culture of the Greeks.

Comments: Chairman of the Odessa Society of Greeks Aristotle Papunidis; former chairman of the village council M. Miglibei; academician of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Gennady Matsuka; director of the Donetsk Regional Center of Culture Donat Patrich; head of the department of the Kyiv Society of Greeks N. Tsitsarina.

Reference: the Greeks of Ukraine are an autochthonous and migratory ethnic community formed as a result of the ancient colonization of the Northern Black Sea region and the mass forced resettlement of Crimean Greeks (Rumei and Urum) to the Sea of ​​Azov in 1778–1779 within the framework of the imperial colonization policy of the Russian Empire. During the Soviet period, the Greek population suffered large-scale repressions, in particular during the so-called Greek operation of the NKVD in 1937–1938 and the deportations of Pontic Greeks, which led to demographic losses, linguistic assimilation and the destruction of the institutions of national life. After World War II and partial rehabilitation, the community did not fully restore its cultural and linguistic autonomy, and in the 1980s–1990s a significant part of the Greeks emigrated to Greece. In modern Ukraine, the Greeks remain one of the recognized national minorities, concentrated mainly in the Sea of ​​Azov, where cultural societies and educational initiatives, however, their number and the level of preservation of their native languages ​​have significantly decreased due to long-term assimilation and repressive processes.