Lviv, 6 November 1961.

Celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Markiyan Shashkevych.

In the video: Lychakiv Cemetery, the grave of Markiyan Shashkevych, a group of people, poet Rostislav Bratun, head of the Department of Ukrainian Literature at Lviv State University Fedir Neboryachok, poet Vasyl Hlynchak, composer Anatoliy Kos-Anatolsky. People lay flowers and wreaths.

150 years of Markiyan Shashkevych

Zbrui village, Lviv region, 2008.

Video: Brody forestry, bison in the forest; men scatter feed, herd of bison graze.

Comment by the director of the state enterprise "Hunting farm "Styr" Petro Harasymchuk and foresters of the farm.

Reference: The state enterprise "Hunting farm "Styr", founded in 1975, protects and uses hunting fauna in three districts of Lviv region. The farm keeps bison, deer, roe deer, wild boars and implements biotechnical measures.

Bison population in Lviv region

1961, Lviv. A report on the visit of guests from Canada to Lviv.

Semen Stefanyk, chairman of the executive committee of the Lviv Regional Council of Workers' Deputies, addresses the guests. The delegation watches a festive parade on the streets of Lviv, visits the Ivan Franko Museum, Lychakiv Cemetery, and lays wreaths at Ivan Franko's grave. They also visited the university, the Shevchenko Auditorium at the university, met with the rector Yevhen Lazarenko and the academic community in the university's assembly hall, got acquainted with the work of Lviv's industrial enterprises, and met with children.

Guests from Canada in Lviv

1961, Lviv.

A story about the opening of the Shevchenko Auditorium at Lviv University. The auditorium was opened on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko's death. 

In the video: the ribbon is cut by the rector of the university Yevhen Lazarenko, among those present are vice-rector Andrii Brahinets, dean of the Faculty of Philology Oleksii Moroz, university teachers Fedir Neboriachok, Iryna Oshchypko, Arkadii Halimonchuk, Vasyl Lesyk, Tamila Panko.

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Shevchenko's auditorium 

2004, Chervonohrad (since 2024 - Sheptytskyi), Lviv region.

The video shows the presentation of government awards on Miner's Day, Chervonohradska mine, miners preparing to descend, elevator shaft, coal cars.

Miner's Day in Chervonohrad

June 26, 2011, Lviv.

The plot is dedicated to the events for the War Remembrance Day and conflicts between participants of commemorative actions of different ideological orientations.

In the video: Hill of Glory, police officers patrol the territory; law enforcement officers on the territory of the memorial complex; men carry a wreath to the monument; social advertising "Resistance without violence, June 22"; journalist with campaign leaflets; billboard "Communism = Nazism", "Do not give in to provocation"; flash interview with a Lviv woman who talks about tortured relatives in NKVD prisons; a march in memory of the victims of communism; schoolchildren listen to the stories of prisoners near the "Prison on Lontskoho" museum; laying flowers at the monument to the victims of the communist regime; prayer; rally near Lviv City Council against celebrating May 9 instead of May 8 as Remembrance Day; protests near the Hill of Glory, police detain people.

Comments: public figure Oleg Matseh; director of the National Museum "Prison on Lontskoho" Ruslan Zabily; Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovy; Lviv resident Nadiya Adamiv; deputy head of the Anti-Fascist Committee of Ukraine Oleksandr Kalynyuk; victim of the May 9 riots Oleg Kovpak.

Journalist — Olga Krupnyk.

War Remembrance Day, 2011

Lviv, 2005.

Video: Polish War Memorial, prayer; different angles, people cleaning graves, praying; torchlight procession of scouts along Svobody Avenue.

Reference: The Polish War Memorial in Lviv, also known as the "Cemetery of the Defenders of Lviv", was erected in the 1920s–1930s at the Lychakiv Cemetery according to the design of Rudolf Indrukh to honor Polish participants in the battles against the ZUNR (1918–1919) and the Bolsheviks (1920). Volunteers from France and the USA who fought in the ranks of the Polish army are also buried in the memorial. On June 24, 2005, a memorial to the soldiers of the Ukrainian Galician Army was opened next to it.

Polish War Memorial

October 2007, Lviv.

On the video: blacksmith's workshop, blacksmiths at work, the process of melting metal; making a forged product; Rynok Square, various plans, metal benches; Vycheva Square (Vernissage), "Iron Lion" Festival, various plans of craftsmen at work, selling forged products.

Reference: "Iron Lion" is an all-Ukrainian festival of blacksmithing, which took place in Lviv from 2007 to 2010. Its goal was to establish professional contacts between masters of artistic metal, exchange experience and popularize the art of blacksmithing.

"Iron Lion" Festival

July 2007, Ozhydiv village, Lviv region.

The plot is about the consequences of a man-made accident in Ukraine due to the derailment of 15 yellow phosphorus tanks. Stand-up journalist, villagers wearing gauze masks, accident site, overturned tanks, special services, Ozhydiv village council, emergency response headquarters, special equipment, repair of the tracks, helicopter with the Minister of Emergency Situations, emergency workers in chemical protection suits and gas masks, fire services.

Comments: Zynoviya Polishchuk, a resident of Ozhydiv village; Oleksandra Shakh, head of Ozhydiv village council; Oleksandr Kuzmuk, Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine; Nestor Shufrych, Minister of Emergency Situations.

Phosphorus disaster in Lviv region

November 17, 2003, the city of Zhovkva, Lviv region.

In the video: fair, sale of craft products; knights' tournament, different plans; people in national costumes dancing; various home-cooked dishes on the table; a military band playing, musicians eating sausage; actors in hetman's uniform, performance, spectators from different angles.

400 years of the Magdeburg Law of the city of Zhovkva

Lviv Television Studio. Issue of the program "Lviv Week" No. 19 for 1959 is dedicated to the Lviv State Shoe Factory No. 3 of the Light Industry Department of the Lviv Council of People's Economic Communities.

On the video: the exterior of the factory, a plaque; workers at workbenches, the process of making shoes; the factory's assortment, various plans, packing shoes into boxes; workers' speeches at team meetings.

Digitized from a black-and-white 16 mm film, silent.

Shoe Factory, 1959

September 6, 2005, Lviv.

The plot is dedicated to the large-scale restoration of the historical part of Lviv.

In the video: repair of Svobody Avenue, workers; Rynok Square, various plans for the restoration of tenement houses; panorama of the city, restoration work on the main dome of the St. George’s Archcathedral is visible.

Comments: Head of the Capital Construction Department of the Lviv City Council Vasyl Myskiv; Head of the Department of Restoration and Reconstruction of Architectural Complexes of the Lviv Polytechnic National University Mykola Bevz.

Journalist — Olga Krupnyk.