Lviv Television, 1959. 

In the video: flax harvesting, women in the field, flax processing equipment, collective farm, bundles of flax fiber, flax processing equipment, flags, a truck with a portrait of Nikita Khrushchev and the inscription “We will deliver the fiber to the state by November 1”; Mine No. 2 “Novovolynska,” workers, a poster on the door, the presidium, mine management, people applauding, musicians playing the accordion, a performance by an artistic group, a play, women in dresses with flowers, miners with flowers, coal transport; an electric lamp factory, stages of production, the basics of cathode ray tubes; Lviv, filming of the movie “Oleksa Dovbush,” actors in makeup and costumes, film crew, city streets; sports competition at a swimming pool, judges evaluating the diving of young swimmers, people in the stands, awarding of winners. 

We are digitizing and publishing this video as part of a collaboration between Suspilne and the State Archives of Lviv Oblast. 

Filming of “Oleksa Dovbush” and other newsreels: 1959

Lviv Television, 1959. 

In the video: production and exhibition of blown glass items in Lviv, examples of products: chandeliers, bottles, glasses, vases, souvenirs, workers blowing glass; the Second Plenum of Ukrainian Writers, plenum participants, speakers’ addresses, Soviet symbols, audience members in the hall, conversations in the lobby; takeoff of an AN-10 aircraft from Lviv Airport in November 1959 and arrival at Moscow Airport, AN-10 at the airport, passengers approaching the boarding ramp, view from the window, flight attendant serving coffee, pilot, passengers in the cabin; the historical program “Chronicle of My Hometown”—a historical program featuring views of Lviv, Freedom Avenue, Market Square, Korniakt Tower, and the Dominican Cathedral.

Note: The AN-10 is an airliner designed under the leadership of Oleg Antonov; since the start of its operation, it has been involved in multiple plane crashes. The first loss of an AN-10 since it entered service occurred in November 1959 on the outskirts of Lviv.

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The “Lviv–Moscow” Flight and Other Chronicles: 1959. 

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1981.

The TV film "Weapons Museum" is dedicated to the museum exposition of the Arsenal Museum at the Lviv Historical Museum.

On the video: views of Lviv, trams, Ruska Street, tram stop; Arsenal Museum, poster, museum exposition, weapons, armor, awards, paintings depicting battle scenes.

Reference: The City Arsenal in Lviv is a monument of Renaissance defensive architecture of the 16th century, which currently houses the Arsenal Museum of Weapons as a department of the Lviv Historical Museum. The museum's funds include collections of cold and firearms, protective equipment and military armor from different regions of Europe and the world from the Middle Ages to modern times.

Arsenal Museum in Lviv, 1981

Lviv Television, 1959. The video shows: stained-glass artisans at work, grinding machines, finished products: goblets, glasses, candy dishes; a bus factory, machines, the production of parts and screws, a factory worker giving an interview; a poster, the State Museum of Ukrainian Art (now the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum), a sculpture exhibition; the diversion of the Bug River, a dam, workers operating heavy machinery; Lenin Collective Farm, farm, cows and pigs, men gathering hay, milkmaids, store; medical office, school, music club, boys and girls playing chess, library.

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The Bus Factory and Other Chronicles: 1959

Lviv Television, 1959. 

In the video: Khodoriv, sugar factory, propaganda poster, factory premises, production facilities, sugar beet grinding, workers at work, factory management, workers giving interviews, various stages of production, performance by a creative troupe, dancing in traditional costumes, sugar packaging; construction site, men cutting wood at workbenches; farm, pigs; Lviv, city streets, a man leaves a house and walks down the street, enters the Institute of Physical Culture; excerpt from the film “Three Generations” (source unknown); school, children at their desks, distinguished teacher Ornavska, a girl shows the teacher a poster reading “To My Dear Mom on March 8,” the teacher reviews the children’s artwork, children sign cards and prepare gifts for March 8.

We are digitizing and publishing this video as part of a collaboration between Suspilne and the State Archives of Lviv Oblast. 

Links to other chronicles: 1959

Lviv, 1958. The film opens with a clip, likely from *The Old Cook*, though this is not known for certain. 

Essays on the history of Lviv, commissioned by the Lviv Television Studio. The screenplay was written by S.M. Sokolov, a member of the Union of Architects of the USSR. Cinematographer: V.V. Pogorily. In the video: city maps; St. Andrew’s Church on Soborna Square; the State Archives of the Lviv Region; the Korniakt Tower; the Boim Chapel; Latin Cathedral; City Hall, lions at the entrance; Rynok Square, fountains, sculptures, bas-reliefs.

We are digitizing and publishing this video as part of a collaboration between Suspilne and the State Archives of the Lviv Region. 

Essays on Lviv and Other Chronicles: 1958

Lviv Television, 1959. 

In the video: a pharmaceutical plant, conveyor belts carrying pills; a couple with a child on a balcony, a family gathering in a room, a woman cooking in the kitchen; girls in the library; female workers at the pharmaceutical plant walking down the stairs; a garden, female workers sitting in the garden; girls in the library, bookshelves; the opera house, Freedom Avenue, a fountain, people feeding pigeons, dancing in the park; men in uniform; the arrival of Soviet statesman and political figure Anastas Mikoyan at the Stalin Collective Farm, Mikoyan speaking from the podium, Pioneers and adults with flowers; an airfield, men greeting Mikoyan upon his arrival, he gets into a convertible and drives off; the opera house, Mikoyan on stage; Boarding School No. 1; workshop, children learning carpentry, girls learning sewing; Lviv Auto Trust, boys repairing cars; school farm; Shoe Factory No. 3, production, staff meeting.

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Anastas Mikoyan in Lviv and Other Chronicles: 1959

Lviv Television, 1959. 

In the video: Lychakiv Cemetery, a rally at the grave of Yaroslav Halan, marking the 10th anniversary of the writer’s death; Ivan Franko University, a memorial gathering in honor of Yaroslav Halan; a film adaptation of an unknown work; a march of the Pioneers; Dobrotvir, DRES (Thermal Power Plant); Naftali Botvin’s grave; view of Lviv’s city center from an observation deck; Opera House, portrait of Lenin, line to the theater; Soborna Square, trams moving, people walking down the street; monument to Vladislav Kozak, gravestones of Bronislava Hents, Petro Sikorsky, Mykola Pavliv; Puppet Theater; kinescopes, production, millionth kinescope; People’s House (today—Officers’ House); Lviv souvenirs; modernized machine tools at the automobile plant. 

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The Pioneers' March and Other Chronicles: 1959

Lviv Television, 1959. 

In the video: Chervonohrad (now Sheptytskyi); Velykomostivska Mine No. 3, miners at work, listening to a speech by management, a ribbon-cutting ceremony, coal cars; an Albanian delegation at the Lviv Electric Lamp Factory; Lviv, Svobody Avenue; bus factory; view of the city center from an observation deck; airport terminal, arrival of the Albanian delegation, Ukrainian representatives greeting them with flowers; meeting with the Albanian delegation, presidium, portrait of Lenin; visit to an agricultural machinery exhibition; Lviv Machine-Building Plant; cows in a pasture, milkmaids at work, top milkmaid Lukanina; Lviv railway station, people on the platform, a reception for athletes after the USSR championship; a rally at the depot; a low-voltage lamp factory. 

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The Rally at the Depot and Other Chronicles: 1959

Lviv Television, 1959. 

In the video: young people working on a construction site, installing windows, compacting roads with specialized equipment, laying bricks, and installing a roof; a view from the roof of the television tower, High Castle Park in winter, a view of the city center, the Korniakt Tower, and the Dominican Cathedral; autumn views of Lviv, people walking along Svobody Avenue, cars and public transportation; the airport terminal; the opera house, the Adam Mickiewicz monument, a fountain; Drohobych, city streets, city hall, machine-building plant, garment factory, new buildings, gymnasium, park, city cultural center, theater performance.

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The Dominican Cathedral and Other Chronicles: 1959

2000, National Television Company of Ukraine. Release of the program "Not everything is so bad in our house". The topic of the program is the creation and operation of the special economic zone "Kurortopolis Truskavets". Host - Lyudmila Lysenko.

In the video: screensavers, shots of Truskavets, stand-up of the host, landscapes of the Carpathians, medical sanatoriums, vacationers drinking mineral water from the pump room, "Naftusya", folk art fair, monument to Taras Shevchenko, archival video materials, Diocesan Museum, Mykhailo Bilas Art Museum, health procedures.

About the city and sanatoriums talk: Mayor Bohdan Matolych; Head of the Economic Development and Management Body of the SEZ "Kurortopolis Truskavets" Boleslav Petrovsky; General Director of CJSC "Truskavetskurort" Bohdan Aksentichuk; People's Artist of Ukraine Mykhailo Bilas; Chief Liar of the "Rubin" sanatorium Volodymyr Belz; Director of the rehabilitation center "Elita" Volodymyr Kozyavkin.

Resort town "Truskavets", 2000

September 15, 2002. A story about the prevention of three criminal incidents across the country: a terrorist attack with explosives at the Bendyuzka mine in the Lviv region, a road accident on the Zhytomyr highway and the discovery of a cache of firearms and bottles with an incendiary mixture, and illegal currency conversion by an assistant to the deputy from the Batkivshchyna party, Oleksandr Turchynov.