Kharkiv black-and-white chronicles of 1972, various plots.

On the video: a new feed mill: workshop, equipment, conveyor, workers; an exhibition of art works, people looking at paintings; a new farm of the collective farm “Ukrainka”: the territory of the collective farm, machinery, equipment, pigs; a production room, equipment, a man at work; awarding of the Order “Badge of Honor” of the Institute of Metrology: hall, meeting, presidium, speeches, the order is attached to the flag, applause; a student rally: people go on stage, a poster with the inscription “Virgin land. Went 8 times”, speeches, awarding flags to student groups, applause; a rally at the Zmiivskaya GRES: the inscription “Zmiivskaya GRES, the award-winning GRES, produced 100000000000 kilowatt-hours of electricity”, workers in the yard of the station, tribune, speeches; 250th anniversary of the birth of Hryhoriy Skovoroda, a reservoir, buses, people getting out, a delegation, Skovoroda's grave, laying flowers, planting trees, a museum, exhibits, a solemn gathering, speeches; meeting of the Great October Revolution at the Kharkiv Electromechanical Plant (KHEMZ), a workshop, workers at their workplaces.

250th anniversary of Hryhoriy Skovoroda

Kharkiv, 30 March 1974.

The new circus building in Kharkiv is ready for use.

The video shows the new circus building from the outside, inside, view from the windows, hall, workrooms, dressing room, animal quarters, horses, building model, equipment, pipes, records, appliances, transformers, electrical panels, a sign ‘Fire Station’, electricians, arena.

A new circus in Kharkiv

Kharkiv, 4 October 1973.

New varieties of apples are being developed at the Krasnokutsk Horticultural Experimental Station: Winter Lemon, Winter Elegant, Winter Dessert, Calville Golden, Gift to Kharkiv and others. 

Employees of the station talk about grafting seedlings, planting them, and selecting them.

New varieties of apples

Kharkiv, 1972.

The programme ‘Glass Doors’. A survey of students about their choice of profession. Training workshops, students at the machines, at drawing tables. The young people share their impressions of their work experience.

P. Yarmolenko, head of a training workshop; Fedir Kryvonos, a top-category locksmith; Vitaliy Seminsky, a production foreman; and M. Bogatov, head of the Department of Pedagogy at Kharkiv University, talk about how to help young people choose the right profession.

Choosing a profession

March 6, 2003, Kharkiv. 

In the video: the state flag and the flag with the Kharkiv coat of arms on the background of the building; everyday life of the city: people boarding public transport, walking down the street, cars on the road, different streets and plans; Kharkiv tram; Independence Monument; University Square, Holy Dormition Cathedral; tanks on Constitution Square in Kharkiv, boys looking at the equipment; sale of paintings, local vernissage; Taras Shevchenko Garden; Alley of Sports Glory in Taras Shevchenko Garden, monument to a football; Kharkiv Regional State Administration. 

Kharkiv, 2003

Kharkiv, August 9, 2019.

A plot about the creation of a bronze sculpture of Volodymyr Vernadsky for the Taras Shevchenko City Park. The artistic casting workshop, craftsmen polishing the sculpture. Finished statues of the artist Ilya Repin and theater director Les Kurbas.

Comments: master of artistic metalworking Dmytro Tokarev; master of artistic casting Serhii Kapusta.

Academician Vernadsky cooks borscht

Ukraine, Kharkiv region, Novooleksandrivka village, Chuhuiv district (formerly Velykoburlutskyi district), February 28, 2011.

A story about nitrate poisoning of twin babies. Snowy village, well, Novooleksandrivka village council. Comments: Halyna Yanytska, chief doctor of Velykoburlutsk district hospital; Kostyantyn Sheremet, operational commissioner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kharkiv region; Vira Marenych, head of Novooleksandrivka village council; Tetyana Novoseltseva, grandmother of the deceased boy.

Poisoning of infants

A story about myrrh-bearing icons in Kharkiv on the eve of Easter, April 30, 2005.

On the video: St. Sophia Cathedral, divine service, candles, a priest consecrating people, Archimandrite Mykolay, the rector of the church.
Comments: parishioners Lyudmila Zaruchentseva and Svitlana Nestorenko, church elder Stanislav Kononenko.

Journalist — Oleksandr Shvets.

Myrrh-flowing icons in Kharkiv

Lutsk, March 09, 1994.

Volyn Regional Music and Drama Theater named after Taras Shevchenko. Concert “The Marenych Trio Sings”.
Valeriy, Antonina, and Svitlana Marenychi perform folk and author songs “Brown Eyes, Black Brows,” “Three Roads,” “Oh, in the Field of Viburnum,” “Night of the Gypsy,” “About Polissya,” “We Dreamed of Polissya Forests,” “The Binder, “At the Opole Market,” ‘Only One Love is Holy,’ ‘On Sunday Morning,’ ‘At the Porch of the Bride,’ ‘The Steppe Wind Blew,’ ‘My Gypsy Girl,’ ‘The Cranes Came,’ ‘Oh, in the Green Forest,’ ‘Oh, on the Mountain There Are Two Oaks,’ and ”About a Violinist.”
The television version of the concert was prepared by Natalia Lugova, Bohdan Honcharuk, Omelyan Ivaniuk, Yuriy Rayevych, and Oleh Kysylyuk. 

The Marenych Trio sings

Kharkiv, 1970. The program “2+2=4”.

The program covers the topic of school education, the advantages and disadvantages of the curriculum.  Experimental teaching methods are introduced at school No. 17, where children are taught not only practical skills but also theoretical knowledge from an early age, and the learning process is transformed into a creative one. 
In the video: math lessons with elements of algebra and physics, language and literature lessons in primary school. 

Comments: Candidate of Psychological Sciences V. Repkin, teachers.

Experiments in school education

March 22, 2008, Kharkiv.

The plot is dedicated to the first ufology museum in Eastern Europe in the Kharkiv Planetarium.

On the video: the exposition, different angles; a man in an alien costume; an exhibition of paintings dedicated to the topic of aliens.

Comments: the author of the idea and the exposition is artist Igor Berezok; president of the Kyiv Ufological Center Mykola Bezhmelnytsyn; doctor of physical and mathematical sciences Volodymyr Zakhozhai.

Journalist — Oleksandr Shvets.

Museum of Aliens in Kharkiv

Kharkiv, 2021. 

The story is about the work of theaters during the “red” quarantine zone. 

In the video: theater posters, the Actor's House, the Shevchenko Theater, the park.

Interview: Olha Somova, director of the Room T Theater; Marharyta Korniushchenko, spokesperson for the Kharkiv Shevchenko Theater; Svitlana Oleshko, director of the Arabesque Theater; Natalia Tsymbal, actress of the Arabesque Theater. 