Kharkiv, May 1985.

On video: May 8 — girls in folk costumes present bread and salt to veterans, laying flowers, presidium, speeches, meeting of pioneers; celebration on the street on August 23, monument, veterans and fragments of the concert; celebrations, removal of cloth from the monument; concert, veterans in the hall, refreshments and presentation of gifts. Bookstore, slogans about friendship of the USSR and Czechoslovakia; football match; May 11 — laying flowers at the monument to Lenin, memorial, laying wreaths, military march, procession of veterans near the "Mirror Stream" fountain with the monument to Shevchenko in the background; festive events in Izyum, procession, speeches of veterans; celebrations of the 51st Rifle Regiment, pioneers, procession and monument to the soldier; greetings of veterans; parade ground, military march, ribbon cutting at the new monument; Metalist stadium, concert, salute; May 13 — viewing of exhibits in the museum by veterans; May 15 — construction of the metro, trucks, workers, equipment; exhibition stands with stamps and envelopes; May 24 — construction site, journalist, trench, equipment; exhibition halls, excursion, paintings.

Chronicle of 1985: "Victory Day"

Kharkiv TV studio, black and white chronicle without sound.

On video TV stories for 1968 and 1969 for Cosmonautics Day: exhibition hall, photos of cosmonauts and engineers, students listening to a thematic lecture about space, demonstration of exhibits, models of spaceships, excursion; holiday newspaper with Yuri Gagarin, globe, children on an excursion looking at exhibits dedicated to space, various plans.

Chronicle of 1968: Cosmonautics Day

Kharkiv, February 12, 1982. Part of the video is without sound. 

The video shows a tourist train “Kharkiv”: a carriage, a conductor, a restaurant car, passengers reading a newspaper, playing chess, getting off the train; a grocery store, empty wooden and metal boxes, people in line, a journalist asking about the reception of glassware; Hnat Fedorovych, an employee of the reception point, talking about the reasons for the queues, the inscription “Acceptance of dishes”, a journalist asking women how long they have been standing in line; a court, people, the chairman of the court interrogates the accused of alcoholism, the prosecutor's speech, the court's decision to send Shmutko Mykola Savych to a medical and labor dispensary for two years is announced; a children's hospital, a journalist asks the women what feelings they will have to part with their boy Ivan, the hospital's lawyer tells how the boy was admitted to the hospital, plans to give the child to the orphanage, about the child's mother. 

Receiving glass containers and the trial of an alcoholic: 1982

Kharkiv, March 14, 2014.

In the video: Euromaidan activists near the Regional State Administration building, law enforcement officers, people, a monument to Lenin on the square near the Regional State Administration, a conference in the courtroom. Speech by the Deputy Head of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in Kharkiv Region Mykola Holub.

Reference: On March 14, 2014, the first battle in the Russian-Ukrainian war with the use of firearms took place on Rymarska Street in Kharkiv. The incident occurred against the backdrop of the Euromaidan protests and the tense situation in the region, when pro-Russian activists and participants in pro-Ukrainian actions clashed. As a result of the fight, weapons were used, which led to numerous injuries and an escalation of the conflict in the city.

The consequences of the fight on Rymarska

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.