Kharkiv, 2007. Kharkiv Regional Television and Radio Company, program “Theater Salon.”

The guest of the program is Natalia Rzhevskaya, director of the Kharkiv Choreographic School, artistic director of the Children's Ballet Theater, and Honored Artist of Ukraine. A conversation with the program hosts Tetyana Kiktev and Oleksandr Annichev about the founding of a children's art school in Kharkiv, about vocation, work, and worldview.

The program features excerpts from performances by the children's ballet theater, including with Japanese dancer Morihiro Iwatō.

Natalia Rzhevskaya: obsessed with children and dance

Kharkiv TV Studio. Story materials for January 29-March 9, 1973. Video black and white, no sound.

On the video: January 29, new trolleybus line, trolleybus No. 19, passengers; handball competition, various plans, spectators in the stands; January 31, construction of the metro, builders at work; interclub at school No. 23, pioneers in the classroom looking at albums, stands, stamps; February 2, V. Lenin Lifting and Transport Equipment Plant, cranes, workers in the office looking at drawings, design department, production shop; February 14, Frunze Book Factory, people looking at Budyonny's book "Meeting with Ilyich", production shop, workers at their workplaces; February 16, 10 years of the "Poetry" store, hall, speeches, listeners; Theater of the Young Spectator of the Youth Theater, performance, spectators in the hall, applause; February 23, meeting with the "Chapaevites", presentation of gifts; March 3, hall, people with orders, presidium on stage, speeches, attaching the order to the flag, exchanging party cards, a man with orders, a woman and others sign the document; exhibition of modern book graphics, people look around, make notes; March 6, preparation for March 8, exhibition hall, souvenirs, light industry goods, flowers; March 9, meeting of the Czechoslovak delegation, railway station, platform, arrival of the train, speeches, people listen; laying wreaths at the mass grave of Soviet and Czechoslovak soldiers, military orchestra, speeches; Museum of Combat Brotherhood, museum exhibits; hall, presidium, speeches; museum, exhibition, excursion.

Kharkiv Book Factory, 1973

Kharkiv Television. Issue of the special program "Meditation" from September 17, 2009.

On the video: Central Park, kiosk "All about Kharkiv", opening, paintings from different plans; souvenirs, different plans; Eternal Flame Square, memorial signs; Holy Assumption Cathedral; different plans of Kharkiv residents in the park, people on a walk.

Eternal Flame Square, 2009

Kharkov Television. A selection of black-and-white plots from 1970, without sound.

On video: TV story "Awards for Traffic Police Workers", office, traffic police officer with a shepherd dog, recording information from a phone call; TV story "School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs", forest, police officers, shooting practice, physical education, a motorcyclist column; TV story "Visiting Session of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR", speech from the rostrum, hall from different plans; TV story "Borys Kotlyarov Anniversary", awarding of the order; "Museum of the History of the Tinyakov Factory", its different plans of the museum and exposition; "Twins' Holiday", twins, mothers with children, applause; laboratory, devices, workers at work; pioneers, selected flags, concert numbers; TV story "New Distillation Tunnel", Kharkiv construction, workers at work, equipment of various plans; story dedicated to the meeting of the Latin delegation, walk; 10th anniversary of the theater, stands, photos, hall, people on stage, speeches, applause, fragments of the performance; TV story "40 years of the lifting mechanisms plant", Kharkiv lifting and transport equipment plant, workshop, workers, handing over the flag; TV story "Evening of Friendship. 11 years of Vietnam", fragments of speeches; story to the 100th anniversary of the gasification of Kharkiv, exhibition, workers at work, various plans of equipment; story about figure skating, ice arena, skaters show tricks; exhibition of artist Sergei Besedin, excursion, museum exposition; story "Dzerzhinsky Museum" (now Kharkiv Museum of Art and Industry), children's excursion various, angles of museum rooms; radio station, female workers at work, power lines.

Contains elements of Soviet propaganda.

Kharkov Theater, 1970

Kharkiv TV studio, September 20, 1987. Color video, sound damaged in places.

On the video: Kharkiv Day, the Glory Memorial in the forest park, the Eternal Flame, bas-reliefs, people laying flowers; city streets, military band, poster, Dzerzhinsky Square (now Maidan Svobody), Lenin monument, official speeches, the chairman of the Kharkiv City Executive Committee Stepan Sokolovsky speaks, laying flowers, veterans of World War II, concert numbers, Sokolovsky is handed bread; Taras Shevchenko Garden, fountain from different angles, exhibition of children's drawings, children drawing; various plans of the park, people, performance of the folklore ensemble "Slobozhany", monument to Taras Shevchenko; "Exhibition-Sale", journalist and deputy head of the regional trade department Valery Chubenko, interview about trade at the exhibition; "Cafe", cafe inside, people at tables, waiters serving food, drinks, group of waiters, bar, chickens on the grill, serving coffee, clearing tables; stadium, athletes throwing javelin, high jump.

Kharkiv Day, September 20, 1987

2008, Kharkiv Regional State Television and Radio Company. A programme from the series ‘School Town’ dedicated to participants in international school Olympiads.

The video features: opening credits, a stand-up by a journalist, Shevchenko Park, and interviews with Olympiad participants Andriy Bozhko, Anton Zhernov, and Artem Kurov.

‘School Town’: winners of academic competitions

Kharkiv TV studio. A selection of black-and-white stories from 1970, without sound.

On the video: Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, people in the auditorium, the presidium, various plans; technical tools and books on construction, architectural theories; workshop, workers at work, mining equipment; the process of building the Kharkiv metro, the first “crash” on April 10, 1970, laying a through tunnel from the Podilskyi Bridge to the “Radyanska” station (now “Maidan Konstitution”); Kharkiv hippodrome, horses, jumping over obstacles; a story dedicated to the “II International Congress of Proletarian Writers”, the State Industrial Production Building, the library, manuscripts of the German writer Anna Zegers; photos of Friedrich Engels, speeches, the hall from different angles; new development of the city of Kharkiv, buses, construction from different plans; library, reading room, book stand dedicated to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, books in different languages; drilling tower, lanterns, workers at work; laboratory, workers checking grain for diseases; Kharkiv, Dzerzhinsky Square (now Maidan Svobody), speeches from the stands, people with flags; Kharkiv State Academic Puppet Theater named after Afanasyev, puppet show; Museum of the History of Kharkiv Electric Transport, museum exposition, various plans of models, excursion.

The Kharkiv metro, 1970

June 25, 2008, Kupyansk city, Kharkiv region.

In the video: a sign at the entrance to the city "Kupyansk 1655. Kupyansk district"; police department, a policeman on duty answers calls, makes entries in a logbook; the arrest of a violator, arrival at the duty station; a sign "Ministry of Internal Affairs Kupyansk department", "Police", various plans of the yard.

Kupyansk police department

Kharkiv TV Studio. A selection of black and white stories for 1967, without sound.

On video: TV story "Lenin Prize": laboratory, woman at the table, men talking, equipment, flasks, research, various substances; TV story "Anniversary Year - Year of Labor": hut, earthworks, piles of soil, rubble, various construction equipment; store "Vegetables. Fruits", customers, new goods; men on the train, conversation; store "Promtovary. Foodstuffs", construction, workers, pipes, baby carriages, playground, water tower, school; TV story "Kharkiv - Sevastopol": brass band, buses, Palace of Pioneers, Hotel "Sevastopol", graves of Admirals Vladimir Istomin, Pavel Nakhimov, Mikhail Lazarev, Vladimir Kornilov, Vladimir Cathedral, museum military equipment, diorama "Storm of Sapun-gora on May 7, 1944", excursion, panorama "Defense". Sevastopol", cleaning of the car, botanical garden, embankment; TV story "Kharkiv Confectionery Factory 'Zhovten'. Workshop No. 2": workshop, workers packing sweets, cakes, conveyor, production of products, various equipment.

Chronicle of 1967: Confectionery Factory

Kharkiv TV Studio. A selection of black and white footage for May 6, 1974, without sound.

On the video: workroom, worker makes entries in a journal, conducts experiments, replaces parts; machines, workers at work, different angles; drafting shop: table, equipment, drafting tables, different plans of craftsmen at work; dam, swans and roe deer near a pond; construction of an industrial facility, different plans; residential area, children leaving school, different plans of streets.

Chronicle of 1974: Drafting Shop

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1988.

The genre film sketch "Six Minutes in Kharkiv" is dedicated to the city of Kharkiv in the 1980s.

On the video: everyday life of the city, architecture, leisure of Kharkiv residents.

TV movie "Six Minutes in Kharkiv"

May 7, 2008, Kharkiv.

The plot is dedicated to the preparations for the European Football Championship Euro 2012, the match between Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar, as well as the working visit of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko.

In the video: fans of the football club Shakhtar and Dynamo Kyiv, various plans; sale of football symbols; Viktor Yushchenko meets with veterans of World War II on the occasion of Victory Day, a tour of the museum; the start of the football match, the stadium, Yushchenko among the spectators.

Commented by the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko.

Created by: Andriy Borets, Oleksandr Shvets, Vitaliy Skorobagatko.