Chernivtsi, 2001. Celebration of the 40th anniversary of television at the Olga Kobylianska Theater, hosted by Zhanna Ivanovska and Vasyl Ilashchuk.

Performers: Marichka Yaremchuk, “Likharyky”; Inessa Saigasheva; Viktor Rurak; Alina Grosu, “Bdzhilka”; Ivan Derda; Yulia Korzhynska; Oksana Savchuk; Leonid Korinets; Pavlo Dvorsky, “Misto tumaniv” (City of Mists), congratulates the television crew on their professional holiday, song “Ya z pisnami zhyvu” (I Live with Songs); Yak Tabachnik congratulates, plays the accordion; Vasyl Zinkevych “New Day Over Ukraine,” congratulates on Television Day, song “The Violin Plays,” “Song from the Mountain Pasture.” 

Chernivtsi TV celebrates its 40th anniversary. Part 3

Chernivtsi, 2001. Celebration of the 40th anniversary of television at the Olga Kobylianska Theater, hosted by Zhanna Ivanovska and Vasyl Ilashchuk.

Speeches by: Ivan Drach, poet; Teofil Bauer, head of the Chernivtsi Regional State Administration; Boris Rusnak, deputy head of the regional council; Mykola Fedoruk, mayor of the city; Viktor Korol, member of the Ukrainian parliament; Volodymyr Shkvarkovskyi, head of the regional council of trade unions; Taras Mukan, head of the regional committee of the trade union of cultural workers; representatives of district state administrations, other state institutions, and law enforcement agencies; Tamara Severnyuk, poet; Stella Stankevich, general director of TDV “Trembita.” 

Video of the award ceremony for television workers. 

Chernivtsi TV celebrates its 40th anniversary. Part 2

Chernivtsi, 2001. Celebration of the 40th anniversary of television at the Olga Kobylianska Theater, hosted by Zhanna Ivanovska and Vasyl Ilashchuk.

Greetings are given by: Yurii Teron, general director of Chernivtsi Television; Liudmyla Yegorova, first television announcer; Vasyl Selezinka, chief television director; journalists Oleksandr Svintsitskyi and Yurii Maksymiuk; Ivan Fede, head of the Romanian-language television program production department. 

The video features: a story about the first programs (black-and-white video); the television staff of the 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s are invited on stage; archival video and photos; excerpts from Chernivtsi Television programs. 

Chernivtsi TV celebrates its 40th anniversary. Part 1

30 October 2003, Chernivtsi Regional State Television and Radio Company. A programme from the series ‘Palitra’ dedicated to the 70th anniversary of television director Vasyl Selezinka.

The video features archive photos and videos, celebrations, greetings from colleagues, cultural figures and regional officials.

Reference: Vasyl Mykhailovych Selezinka (1933-2017) was a Ukrainian actor, writer, journalist, theatre and television director, theatre critic, musician, teacher and local historian from Bukovina. He was born on 14 October 1933 in the village of Ispas Gorishniy in the Kolomyia region, graduated from the acting faculty of the Karpenko-Karyi Kyiv Theatre Institute and the journalism faculty in Lviv. 

His works include a series of television programmes entitled ‘The City of My Love’ about Chernivtsi, participation in artistic projects, and nearly a thousand printed articles, reviews, and literary works. He is an Honoured Artist of Ukraine.

70th anniversary of television director Vasyl Selezinka

26 April 2000, Chernivtsi Regional State Television and Radio Company. Youth information programme ‘Chance’.

Video of the beauty contest ‘Beregynya 2000’. Introductions, speeches by participants on stage, fashion show, skits. Interviews with participants, students of the Bukovina Financial and Economic Institute: Iryna Stus, Tetiana Yurkova, Lesia Pidvysotska, Maria Striletska, Iryna Stratievska, Tetiana Gubchak.

Beauty contest "Bereginya - 2000"

Chernivtsi Television, 2008. Special news broadcast dedicated to the 600th anniversary of Chernivtsi, hosted by Myroslav Shevchuk. 

The video features a story about a copy of the charter in which the city of Chernivtsi is first mentioned in writing, black-and-white archival footage; the city: the university, city council, Theater Square, theater, Central Square; a story about the solemn ceremony celebrating the city's anniversary: a trumpet ensemble, speeches by officials, the awarding of the title of “honorary citizen of the city,” a solemn procession of Chernivtsi residents; a story from the Olga Kobylianska Music and Drama Theater in Chernivtsi: a solemn meeting, a welcoming speech by Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko; a story about the laying of a symbolic stone for Franz Joseph; a story about the unveiling of a memorial sign in honor of the city's 600th anniversary; the opening of the restored Olga Kobylianska pedestrian street; a story about an exhibition of tactile photos; a story from the beer festival; a story about the ceremony of putting a commemorative postage stamp into circulation; a story about the unveiling of three stars on the Walk of Fame: composer Volodymyr Shabashovych, singers Anna Lorak and Katya Buzhynska; a story about the opening of a bank branch; a story about Toto Cutugno's concert, laser show, and fireworks.

Chernivtsi turns 600: special news edition

2008, Chernivtsi National Television and Radio Company. Solemn meeting on the occasion of the 600th anniversary of Chernivtsi.

On the video: screensavers, Chernivtsi Music and Drama Theater named after Olga Kobylyanska, speech by the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko on stage, the anthem sounds, the ceremony of presenting state awards of Ukraine.

Chernivtsi celebrates 600 years: ceremonial awards

Chernivtsi Television, 2008. A story about the opening of the restored Olga Kobylianska pedestrian street. 

In the video: city architecture; Mykola Fedoruk, mayor of Chernivtsi; Arseniy Yatsenyuk, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine; Volodymyr Kulish, head of the Chernivtsi Regional State Administration; Ivan Shylepnytskyi, chairman of the Chernivtsi Regional Council, cutting the ribbon and walking down the street; a horse-drawn carriage; interviews: Yaroslav Kushniryk, Deputy Director of the Department of Housing and Communal Services of the Chernivtsi City Council, and Heorhii Melnyk, a resident of Chernivtsi.

Opening of a pedestrian street in Chernivtsi

2003, Chernivtsi Regional State Television and Radio Company. 

Video of the “Pearl of Cheremosh” festival-competition in Vyzhnytsia. Hosted by Anna Gudyma. Performances by contestants on stage, festival participants relaxing in the mountains: the Vyzhenka River, lunch with banosh. Commentary by festival director Vyacheslav Kravchuk.

The Pearl of Cheremosh Festival

1998, Chernivtsi Regional Television and Radio Company. The program "Svitlyna" is dedicated to the boarding house "Bukovyna" in the village of Valya Kuzmina.

In the video: the territory of the boarding house, an interview with the director Mykhailo Mazur, a lake, catamaran riding, lunch in the dining room, a massage room, a sports ground.

Comments: cook Lyudmila Hryhorashchuk; children; massage therapist Lyudmila Mykhailovna; director of the Verenchana school of the Zastavni district Petro Pavlovych; director of the Kadubiv school of the Zastavni district Maria Ivanovna.

Pension "Bukovyna" in the village of Valya Kuzmina

June 20, 2006, Chernivtsi.

In the video: studio in the apartment, craftsmen at work, talking about the features of the work; mannequin, fitting dresses; shop, saleswoman displays wedding dresses, jewelry, bouquets; market, wedding salon "Snizhana", different angles of the store and its assortment, wedding bouquets; "Wedding World", buyers examine the goods.

Wedding salon "Snizhana"

Chernivtsi, 2000, regional philharmonic hall. Creative evening on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of Yurii Bleshchuk, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, Bukovinian violin virtuoso. Hosted by Anna-Daria Andrusiak. 

The video features greetings from officials and performances by: the folk ensemble “Hlynitske Musicians,” Yuriy Bleshchuk playing the violin, Oleksiy Ivasiuk, a 6th-grade student at Children's Music School No. 1, violinist, concertmaster Inna Yakubovska, Ilya Bohdanyuk, singer-songwriter, nephew of Yuriy Bleshchuk, ensemble of cimbalom players from Kitsman district; duet “Pysanka” (Oksana Savchuk and Ivan Kavatsyuk); Bukovinian song and dance ensemble “Mnogaia Lita.” 

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