February 8, 2006, Lviv.

A plot about temporary help for the homeless. Winter, a tent city, homeless people warming up and eating, a field kitchen, cooking borscht, an abandoned house. Comments: Ulyana Vasylykevych, a homeless person; Rostyslav Tymoshchuk, the chief doctor of Lviv Clinical Hospital No. 8; Olesya Sanotska, the head of the charity organization “Olesya” Olesya Sanotska; acting mayor of Lviv Zynovyi Siryk.

Tent city for the homeless

Lviv, July 27, 1960. Telechronika program, episode 93. The reburial of Mykola Kuznetsov in Lviv, video without sound. 

The video shows the Opera House, the Lenin monument, Lenin Avenue (now Svobody Avenue), Mykola Kuznetsov Street (now Kleparivska Street). Mykola Kuznetsov Street (now Kleparivska Street), a photo of Kuznetsov; people saying goodbye, a bus arrives, they bring flowers and wreaths, they bring them into the Officers' House; the coffin is being taken out, put on an open car, a photo of Kuznetsov is being carried, a procession on Teatralna Street, entering the Hill of Glory; speeches by speakers, the coffin is being lowered into the grave, an orchestra is playing, farewell volleys, eternal flame; a table “Hero of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov N. I. born in 1911, died on 9.3.1944”. 

Reference: Mykola Kuznetsov was a Soviet saboteur, special agent-liquidator, NKVD agent, partisan, and scout. During the Second World War, he performed terrorist and provocative tasks for the Soviet command.  He personally killed several senior officers and high-ranking officials of the occupation administration of Nazi Germany. He was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1944.

According to the official version, he died on March 8, 1944, in the village of Bopatyn, Brody district, Lviv region, in a battle with the UPA. In 1960, he was reburied on the Hill of Glory in Lviv. Lviv right-wing radicals have repeatedly vandalized Kuznetsov's grave, and in March 2019, unknown persons stole a bronze bas-relief from his grave. 

In 2020, his niece appealed to the Lviv authorities. The woman asked to exhume his ashes from the Hill of Glory to bury him in Yekaterinburg. However, this was never done. 

In 2025, Lviv began researching and exhuming graves on the territory of the Hill of Glory. Among the graves to be moved to the Holoskiv Cemetery are the remains of NKVD agent Mykola Kuznetsov and Major Stepan Putin.  

The burial of Mykola Kuznetsov in Lviv

December 14, 2007, Stary Sambir city, Lviv region.

In the video: a sign "Stary Sambir Forestry"; a police car drives along a snowy road; residents, a snowstorm; foresters inspect the territory of the forestry; Christmas trees, different plans; natural landscapes.

Stary Sambir Forestry

May 23, 2012, Lviv.

The video shows the funeral ceremony for Ukrainian art critic Boris Voznytsky. A portrait, flowers, a coffin, a funeral procession walking along Svobody Avenue past Mickiewicz Square, an honor guard carrying Voznytsky's awards, people with flowers and wreaths, a hearse, an orchestra.

Reference: Borys Hryhorovych Voznytskyi was a Ukrainian art critic, director of the Lviv Art Gallery, academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts, Hero of Ukraine (2005), holder of the Order of Merit II degree (2001), laureate of the Taras Shevchenko National Prize (1990), Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine and Poland, President of the Ukrainian National Committee of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), Doctor honoris causa. Honorary citizen of Lviv, Vynnyky, Dubno, and Busk district.

Funeral of Boris Voznytsky

June 16, 2002, the resort town of Morshyn, Lviv region.

In the video: vacationers are taking various procedures, doing physical therapy, drinking water from the pump room, walking, shots of the city, sanatoriums of the city. Comments from vacationers and representatives of sanatoriums.

Morshyn sanatoriums

November 23, 2002, Lviv.

Footage of the opening of the Consulate of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Celebrations at the consulate building, an orchestra, people in national costumes of Kazakhstan, a speech by the ambassador, ribbon cutting, a buffet, singing. Commentary by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Kazakhstan to Ukraine and Moldova Ravil Chardabaev on cooperation between the countries.

Consulate of Kazakhstan in Lviv

Ukrainian Television Film Studio, 1981. 

A documentary about the past and present of the ancient city of Lviv. 

The video includes: blitz interviews with residents about Lviv; panorama of the city, various landscapes, monuments of Lviv; Lviv brewery, production; Lviv parks, festivals, fashion shows; football match; Lviv factories; Opera House, various plans.  

The film is dubbed in russian languages.

TV film "Lviv Sketches"

The video shows the course of the 1998 parliamentary elections in the Lviv region. Voters comment on their expectations of the new government.

The parliamentary elections were held on March 29, 1998. There were 30 political parties and electoral blocs running for parliamentary seats. 
 
Of these, only 8 passed the 4% threshold: the Communist Party of Ukraine - 84 seats, the People's Movement - 32 seats, the Electoral Bloc of the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Peasant Party of Ukraine "For Truth, for the People, for Ukraine! " - 29 mandates, the Green Party - 19 mandates, the People's Democratic Party - 17 mandates, the All-Ukrainian Union "Hromada" - 16 mandates, the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine - 14 mandates, the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine - 14 mandates.

The 1998 election campaign

On video: training of new conscripts of the National Guard of Ukraine, Lviv, 1997. Training in tactical-special, humanitarian, technical and military training. Training soldiers, shields, bats, dogs, military equipment.

Comment of the commander of the 14th regiment of the National Guard of Ukraine, lieutenant colonel of the guard — Nechiporuk.

Video: from the personal archive of Yaroslav Svatko.

Training of conscripts of the National Guard of Ukraine

August 20, 2004, Lviv.

The video shows the Lviv pharmacy-museum “Under the Black Eagle”. The dungeon, old medicines in large jars, museum exhibits, tourists, an old sign.

For reference: The pharmacy-museum “Under the Black Eagle” is the oldest existing pharmacy in Lviv, turned into the only museum in Ukraine where you can see the old pharmacy equipment and medicines used by medieval pharmacists.

Pharmacy-museum “Under the Black Eagle”

Summer 2004, Lviv.

On the video: Lviv State University of Life Safety, participants of the competitions are preparing for the relay race; race, competition with the use of assault ladders, judges are taking notes; competitions, various teams and exercises; relay race with combat deployment.

Commented by the rector of the Lviv State University of Life Safety, Colonel of the Internal Service Mykhailo Kozyar.

Fire-applied competitions

Lviv Television Studio. Issue (№283) of the program “Ekran dnya” for January 11, 1965.

On the video: a view of a new street in Lviv named after Valentina Tereshkova (now Ivan Vyhovsky Street); a truck with furniture, workers bring things into the house, furnish the room, a girl lays out books, a boy washes the window; residents of the apartment Volodymyr Stepanovych and Lidia Abramivna Vorobiev, the family celebrates a housewarming.