Chernihiv Regional State Television and Radio Company. News broadcast for 7 February 2014. Hosted by Nataliya Levochko.

Video: opening credits, presenter in the studio, stories: simplification of the taxpayer registration procedure, automatic VAT refunds and the introduction of electronic services; meeting between regional, representative and executive authorities and students planning to become civil servants; press conference with Oleksandr Motorny, deputy head of the regional traffic police department; meeting of the council of the regional organisation of Chernobyl victims with disabilities and creation of a book of remembrance for liquidators who have passed away; 9 February - Dentist's Day: regional children's dental clinic; meeting with Kyiv writers: Mykhailo Slaboshpytskyi and Yurii Shcherbak; The oldest sanatorium-type kindergarten ‘Barvinok’ for children with mild and fading forms of tuberculosis; Winter Olympic Games in Sochi; Shevchenko calendar; weather forecast.

News from Chernihiv for 7 February 2014

Chernihiv Regional State Television and Radio Company. News broadcast for 19 January 2016. Presenter: Natalia Rudenko.

Video: opening credits, presenter in the studio, stories: Epiphany celebrations in Chernihiv; military personnel bathing in an ice hole; new wave of mobilisation; commemorating the Heroes of Kruty and the Heroes of the Anti-Terrorist Operation; the situation on the roads of Chernihiv Oblast; signing of an agreement with the region's gas supplier, ChernihivGasZbut; the region's first territorial medical association; free master classes for internally displaced persons;  an exhibition of works by Serhiy and Natalia Tyschenko, ‘He and She,’ opened at the regional art museum.

News from Chernihiv for 19 January 2016

Shestovitsa Village, Chernihiv Oblast.

The plot from July 23, 2006 is dedicated to archaeological excavations and finds at the site of a medieval Viking settlement.

On the video: archaeological excavations, students and scientists at work; historical information on the finds from leading scientists; archaeological artifacts, various plans.

Comments: Director of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Petro Tolochko; employee of the international archaeological expedition Volodymyr Kovalenko.

Medieval Viking Settlement

State-owned enterprise ‘Ukrainian Television Film Studio ’Ukrtelevizor", 1976.

Video about the city of Chernihiv and its history. Contains elements of propaganda.

The video shows: shots of the city, Desna, transport, monuments, reconstruction of the Transfiguration Cathedral, Mykhailo Kotsyubynsky House, production, people relaxing in the park, children playing and riding on a carousel, cannons from the bastions of the Chernihiv Fortress, Chernihiv Polytechnic, the Shchors Cinema (now the Chernihiv Regional Youth Centre), Children's World, the House of Services (now the Central Department Store), the railway station, and the Druzhba shopping centre.

Chernihiv, 1976

Chernihiv Television, 2008. The program "To the Village — Modern Machinery" is dedicated to the exhibition of modern agricultural machinery on Field Day in the village of Parafiivka, Ichnya district, from the Ukragrolyz company.

On the video: exhibition; new machinery for processing agricultural products; tractors and combines; demonstration of machinery in operation; comments from specialists in the field of agriculture.

Comments: First Deputy General Director of "Ukragrolyz" Yuriy Moroz (in russian); Leading Technical Specialist of "Ukragrolyz" Serhiy Legostayev; Head of the Training Department of "Ukragrolyz" Dmitry Selyutin; Chairman of the Board of OJSC "Parafiivka Sugar Plant" Valentina Senchyk.

Author — Tetyana Ilchuk.

"Ukragrolyz": modern agricultural machinery

Chernihiv Television, 2008. The program "Chernihiv Region in the Lives of the Famous" is dedicated to the Ukrainian theater figure Maria Zankovetska.

In the video: the village of Zanky, Chernihiv region, the birthplace of Maria Zankovetska; the Memorial Museum of Maria Zankovetska in the village of Zanky; the house in which the actress lived from 1902 to 1920 in the city of Nizhyn; the art department of the local history museum, a hall dedicated to Maria Zankovetska; Vasyl Mandryk talks about the life and work of Zankovetska.

Comments: Director of the Memorial Museum of M. Zankovetska (village of Zanky) Vasyl Mandryk; Head of the art department of the local history museum Natalia Tyra.

Author and presenter — Tetyana Myrhorodska.

Reference: Maria Zankovetska was a leading actress of the Ukrainian theater of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, one of the key figures of the theater of the luminaries, whose stage work formed the national canon of dramatic acting. Her upbringing and long life in the Chernihiv region, in particular in Nizhyn and Zanko's native village, determined her linguistic culture, repertoire orientation, and deep attention to the images of the peasant and folk environment. Zankoetska's theatrical practice combined realistic psychological acting, the vocal tradition of Ukrainian song, and the aesthetics of the regional cultural environment of Left-Bank Ukraine.

Memorial Museum of Maria Zankovetska

Chernihiv Television. The June 1, 2008 issue of the "Telemandry" program is dedicated to the regional landscape park "Mizhrichynsky" in the Chernihiv region.

In the video: park views; flora and fauna of "Mizhrichynsky"; a walk through the territory.

Comments: General Director of the Regional Landscape Park "Mizhrichynsky" Andriy Sagaydak; Deputy Director for Protection of the Landscape Park "Mizhrichynsky" Vitaly Nabilsky; Head of the Department of Environmental Education and Public Relations of the Park "Mizhrichynsky" Serhiy Gladkevych.

Author and presenter — Tetyana Myrhorodska.

Reference: The Mezhrichynskyi Regional Landscape Park is located in the interfluve of the Dnieper and Desna rivers in the southwestern part of Chernihiv region and covers 102,472.95 hectares, making it the largest regional landscape park in Ukraine, established in 2002. The park is known for its high conservation value of wetland and forest ecosystems and habitats of rare species of flora and fauna listed in the Red Book of Ukraine and international conservation lists, in particular the floodplain complexes of the Desna and Dnieper rivers.

Landscape Park "Mizhrichynsky"

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

Documentary film "Sokyrynska Pamyat" about the unique monument of architecture and landscape architecture, the Sokyrynska Manor of the Galagans.

In the video: screensavers, the territory of the complex, archival documents and photographs.

Sokyrynska Manor of the Galagans

Chernihiv Television, 2007. The program "Chernihiv Region in the Life of the Famous" is dedicated to the history of the brothers Alexei and Kirill Razumovsky.

On the video: the history of the Razumovsky family, landscapes of St. Petersburg and the Chernihiv region; portraits, museum exhibits; Baturyn, various plans, a palace and a church.

Host — Tatyana Myrhorodskaya.

Reference: The Razumovsky brothers, Alexei and Kirill, were from the Cossack environment of the Hetmanate, who in the middle of the 18th century occupied exceptionally influential positions at the court of the Russian Empire. Alexei Razumovsky, as a favorite and probable morganatic husband of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, became one of the key informal factors in court politics. Kyrylo Razumovsky was the president of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences and at the same time the last hetman of Left-Bank Ukraine, carried out administrative and judicial reforms and was associated with the restoration of the hetman's residence in Baturyn. Their activities are an example of the combination of the integration of the Ukrainian elite into imperial structures with the support of autonomous institutions of the Hetmanate.

Brothers Razumovsky "Lemeshiv Lucky People" 

Chernihiv Television, 2007. The program "Sokyryn Agricultural Lyceum: History and Present" is dedicated to the Galahan Palace and the history of the Sokyryn Professional Agrarian Lyceum.

In the video: the village of Sokyryntsi, the Galahan Palace, various plans, a story about the history of the palace; classrooms of the lyceum, students during classes; specialties for which training is carried out at the lyceum; dining room.

Commented by the director of the Sokyryn Professional Agrarian Lyceum Mykola Kuprienko.

Host — Tetyana Myrhorodska.

Reference: The Sokyryn architectural and park complex is a monument of palace and park architecture of Left-Bank Ukraine of the first half of the 19th century, formed as the Galahan family residence in the Empire style according to the design of architect Pavlo Dubrovsky with a landscape park. In the 20th century, the palace was adapted for educational needs, and now the Sokyryn Professional Agrarian Lyceum operates in the historical buildings of the complex.

Agrarian Lyceum in the Galahan Palace

Chernihiv Television. The episode "Magic Lace Tells..." of the program "Our Openings" from June 2, 2000 is dedicated to the wooden architecture of the city of Chernihiv.

On the video: wooden houses in Chernihiv, exterior of buildings; the presenter talks about the artistic woodcarving of the Chernihiv region, tools for work and varieties of openwork carving; museum exhibition of fragments of building decorations and ornaments.

Presenter — Tetyana Myrhorodska.

Reference: Wooden decorative carving on residential buildings in the Chernihiv region forms a local tradition of decoration, which originates from archaic amulet ideas and actively develops during the 19th — early 20th centuries. Ornamentation includes plant motifs, a meander, the "tree of life", birds and towel compositions, which perform a symbolic function of protecting the home and family. This system of decoration reflects a combination of ancient mythological ideas of the local population with the aesthetics of folk housing construction of Left-Bank Ukraine.

Traditional Chernihiv Carving

Chernihiv Television. The program "Beauty, Which Is Always Near" from June 12, 1999, dedicated to the historical area in Chernihiv, the Boldyn Mountains.

On the video: the Boldyn Mountains, park area, various plans; Gerard Kuznetsov tells the story of the study of the area, about temples, archaeological excavations; the Glory Memorial, dedicated to those who fell in the Soviet-German war, the "eternal flame"; views of Chernihiv from the hills.

Commented by an honorary member of the Ukrainian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments, deputy of the Chernihiv City Council Gerard Kuznetsov.

Host — Tetyana Myrhorodska.

Reference: the Boldyn Mountains are a historical landscape complex in Chernihiv, combining a mound necropolis of the 9th-11th centuries, architectural monuments of the Trinity-Ilyinsky Monastery and the underground complex of the Anthony Caves. The territory forms one of the most representative archaeological and sacred centers of Left-Bank Ukraine. In the 20th–21st centuries, the ensemble functions as a monument of landscape art and a key tourist attraction of Chernihiv.