June 3, 2009, Lviv.

The plot is dedicated to the expansion of the territory and the construction of terminals of Lviv Airport (now the Danylo Halytskyi Lviv International Airport).

In the video: the village of Sokilnyky, land purchase, the process of building a runway; airport, airplanes, runway; construction equipment work, expansion of the airport territory, various plans; women in Ukrainian folk costumes with a loaf of bread at the airport; airport building with the inscription "Lviv", various plans of the main entrance.

Comments: owners of the land plot Stepan Garaida, Roman Nonyak; Deputy Head of the Department of Natural Resources of the Lviv City Council Ihor Humenyuk; Head of the Lviv Regional State Administration Mykola Kmit.

The following worked on the release: Olga Krupnyk, Anatoliy Kyrychuk.

Reconstruction of Lviv Airport

Lviv Television, 1960. 

In the video: milkmaids at work; men examining architectural plans and discussing them; a poster reading “We’ll build the mine ahead of schedule”; military drills; Khmelnytskyi railway station, people with flowers, a poster on a train reading “Forward! To the construction of communism!"; Navaria, beach; construction; Ternopil Cooperative Vocational College; department store, Ternopil Drama Theater, fountains, Secondary School No. 4; Lviv, Boarding School No. 2, official opening; commissioning of Velykomostivska Mine No. 5; Water sports, competitions; Lutsk, the seventh art exhibition of the Volyn Regional Society; Lviv, Svobody Avenue; the funeral of Mykola Kuznetsov (Hero of the Soviet Union), people with wreaths, military personnel in uniform, a crowd of people, a military band, a funeral procession through the city streets, the Hill of Glory, the funeral service.

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

The Funeral of Nikolai Kuznetsov and Other Chronicles: 1960

Lviv Television, 1960. 

In the video: Mukachevo Castle, Palanok Castle, tour groups; the “Syputnyk” movie theater; views of Lviv, the High Castle, Freedom Avenue, Lviv National University, Franko Park, Stryi Park, a pond with swans; “Verkhovyna” television set, production; wrestling competition; the XVII Summer Olympic Games, Rome, the Olympics, city streets, the stadium, the opening ceremony of the Olympics; a bread factory; the Ethnographic Museum; the V.I. Lenin School Museum; Novovytkivska Secondary School; an electric lamp factory; the railroad, a segment about engineer Totsky; a collective farm; Bibr Music School.

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

The XVII Summer Olympic Games and Other Chronicles: 1960

Lviv Television, 1960. 

In the video: the All-Union Congress of Railway Workers, a bas-relief of Lenin on the train station building, a fountain; people reading newspapers, women weeding a garden, Hero of Socialist Labor Marina Zayets; a satellite observation station in Lviv; Shoe Factory No. 3, a wall of honor, factory workers at work; stadium construction, machinery leveling the ground, workers digging and carrying soil; the Hammer and Sickle holiday; writer Denis Lukianovich working on a manuscript at a table; a meeting of Communist Labor Shock Brigade members; Culture Park, people strolling through the park, a man sketching Lenin, the city center, many trees and greenery; the train station, tourists from Budapest in Lviv; new buildings in Mykolaiv, Lviv Oblast. 

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

Construction of the Stadium and a Look Back: 1960

Lviv Television, 1960.

In the video: a choir in folk costumes, dance performances, musicians playing accordions; a hosiery factory; an electric lamp factory; a Polish delegation in Lviv; a chemical and pharmaceutical plant; a children’s train set; a banner reading “Welcome to the participants of the regional gathering!”, children lined up, small flags, a ribbon-cutting ceremony, model ships; an electric lamp factory; a bus factory; a correspondent at a meeting with scientists from the plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union; a paint and varnish factory; the “Lviv” movie theater, preparations for the opening; a meeting of Polish Pioneers.

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

The Hosiery Factory and Other Chronicles: 1960

Lviv Television, 1961. 

In the video: the Young Guard of the seven-year school, TV News No. 2, old photographs of Lviv, Freedom Avenue, the Opera House, factories; the village of Obroshyne, the Archbishops’ Palace, the entrance gate, a gathering at the palace; a review of agricultural machinery; Lviv, the Polytechnic Institute; the Electric Lamp Factory; printing.

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

Polytechnic University: Other Chronicles—1961 

Lviv Television, 1961. 

In the video: Zhydachiv Pulp and Paper Mill, city center, fountain, Palace of Culture, view of the mill, various stages of production; performances by artistic groups; campaign office, March 5, 1961, elections to local councils of workers’ deputies, voting; Lviv, Sichovykh Striltsiv Street, passageway to Kryva Lypa, bust of Lenin at a campaign office; special pre-election broadcast; factory, worker at work; a group of people chatting on the street, winter; an actor applying makeup and a fake mustache; female workers at a sewing factory at their machines; a sculptor at work, new construction sites.

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

Local Council Elections and Other News: 1960

Lviv Television, 1960. 

In the video: the maternity ward of the 3rd City Hospital in the Zaliznychny District; a village, houses, and a farm; construction workers laying bricks and installing a roof; the production of gas stoves; a laboratory and a veterinary clinic; gas pipes; an electric lamp factory; an airplane landing, passengers disembarking; the airport, a restaurant, and the waiting area; an exhibition of Latvian art; the Lviv haberdashery factory; a solar eclipse—a taxi driver watches the eclipse, a group of children near a campaign booth watch the eclipse through a dark glass; a furniture factory. 

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

Solar Eclipse in Other Chronicles: 1960

Lviv Television, 1960. 

In the video: the short film “Signs of the New,” directed by G. Grumberg, cinematography by E. Chekh, sound by R. Saienko, edited by A. Gorokhovsky; female workers at a shoe factory at work; the “Vladimirets” sprayer; construction; the editorial office of the regional newspaper “Lvivska Pravda”; the railway station; new buildings; the Moscow-Uzhhorod Peace Relay, stopping near the Opera House in Lviv, with relay participants on motorcycles and in cars carrying flags riding down Svobody Avenue; a banner reading “Long live Soviet-Czechoslovak friendship!”, a podium, speeches by party officials; Kolos PZ-10 agricultural machinery; the Maria Zankovetska Theater; the “Druzhba” oil pipeline, start of construction; streets of Lviv, cranes, people, pipes, excavators, cars, clearing the site where the oil pipeline will run, construction; the “Lvivsilmash” plant.

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

The “Druzhba” Oil Pipeline and Other Chronicles: 1960

Lviv Television, 1960.

In the video: The Brody Motor Fleet; the Tool Factory; Yakiv Stetsiuk, a meeting with the author; Lviv, Adam Mickiewicz Square, portraits of Communist leaders on the Sprecher Building, Freedom Avenue, a portrait of Lenin on a building, banners on the avenue; City Hall; construction of the new House of Culture; “Lviv-25” gas stove; filming of an unknown movie; “Spartak” movie theater on Freedom Avenue; announcement of the film festival at the Copernicus Children’s Movie Theater; “Dnipro” movie theater; the “Copernicus” movie theater.

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

Lviv's Movie Theaters and Other Chronicles: 1960 

Lviv Television, 1960. 

In the video: a Polish delegation visiting a garment factory; an art exhibition; the House of Scientists; a performance by the folk theater; the play “For the Family Hearth”; Dublyany, National University of Natural Resources, apple picking, tying up tomato plants, agricultural machinery, a cafeteria; new buildings; a meeting of amateur composers; speeches from the podium; folk artist Bulba; wood carving. 

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

The University of Natural Resource Management and Other Chronicles: 1960

July 13, 2013, Lviv.

A report about the festival "Night in Lviv", which combines night excursions, theatrical performances and artistic performances. Fire show on Rynok Square, knightly battles near the Potocki Palace, medieval dances in the Arsenal Museum, theatrical performance, Dominican Cathedral.

Lviv region