September 22, 2005, Lviv.

A plot about football matches between representatives of Greek Catholic parishes. Football field, priests crossing themselves and praying before the game, match, journalist's stand-up, award ceremony. Comments: priest M. Shykh; laboratory assistant of the football department of the Lviv Institute of Physical Culture M. Horoshko; priest Mykhailo Rozpendovsky.

Interparish football

Potelich village, Lviv region.

In the video: Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit, interior, service, parishioners and clergy at prayer; the priest shows the icons and the emergency condition of the church, talks about the need to restore the wooden roof; various plans of the church and roof, the garden plot, swans and the lake, views of the village.

Reference: The Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit in the village of Potelich, Lviv region is the oldest preserved wooden church in Ukraine, built in 1502. It belongs to the Galician school of sacral architecture and is distinguished by a three-part three-frame composition with a unique 17th-century mural and an iconostasis made by masters Ivan Rutkovych and Kazimir Dominikovych. Over the centuries, the church has been restored several times, including in the 18th, 20th, and 1970s, which has preserved its authentic appearance. In 2013, the site was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List as part of the group of wooden churches of the Carpathian region.

Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit

Lviv Television, November 26, 1962. Black-and-white story "Brothers Forever" from the TV almanac "Friendship", dedicated to the historical ties and brotherly friendship of the Ukrainian and Armenian peoples, without sound.

On the video: a storage room of ancient acts in the Central State Historical Archive of Ukraine, an employee takes out documents; various plans for examining old prints in the reading room; hall, reports, among those present were the head of the archeology department, acting director of the Institute of Social Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR Academy of Sciences (now the Ivan Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the NAS of Ukraine) Markiyan-Orest Smishko, academician Ivan Krypiakevych, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR Suren Yeremyan, as well as historians Volodymyr Hrabovetsky, Yaroslav Isaevich, professor of Tbilisi University Levon Melikset-Bek; inscription "Armenian-Ukrainian ties in documents and materials of the city of Lviv"; exhibition of documents, exhibition halls, visitors; walk through the city: Mickiewicz Square, sign "Virmenska Street", Armenian Church, bookstore "Friendship. Books of Socialist Countries", university, memorial tablet to Vladyslav Kozak, Lenin Avenue (now Svobody Avenue), man in office, bell tower and cathedral.

Armenian-Ukrainian Conference, 1962

Lviv Television Studio, April 22, 1963. A selection of various black-and-white scenes without sound.

On the video: the city of Drohobych, Lviv region, General Vasyliev Park (now Ivasyk-Telesyk Park), people, an emblem with the inscription "Drohobych City Festival", a summer stage, people holding torches; various concert numbers, poetry recitation, photojournalists at work; sports competitions, boating, a race through the streets of Drohobych; a wedding ceremony, the bride and groom in the registry office, signing documents and kissing, celebrations; the inscription "Club of the Cheerful and Resourceful", musical numbers; Oles Honchar performs, signs the books "Flag Bearers"; people dance; House of Culture (now the Ivan Franko People's House), hall, speeches from the podium, young people on the street; forest, old man talking to young people, orchestra, schoolchildren; monument to Ivan Franko in Boryslav; buses on a mountain road, exchange students from Lithuania planting trees, inscription on a tree "Lithuania. Vilnius Pedagogical Institute. 22. IV. 1963", joint photo.

Oles Honchar's performance in Drohobych, 1963

The film “An Ancient City, a Young City” was produced by the Lviv Television Studio in 1972. 

The video tells about Lviv: the old part of the city, new streets, educational institutions and parks of Lviv, museums of the city, an overview of the main enterprises (the Electron factory, the bus factory, the brewery, the Progress factory, and the Svitloch factory). It contains elements of Soviet propaganda, with the inscription “Glory to the CPSU” at the end.

“An ancient city, a young city”

Lviv Television, October 6, 1961. Black-and-white newsreel, no sound.

On the video: Lviv State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Ivan Franko (now Lviv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Solomiya Krushelnytska), people at the entrance talking; hall, presidium, raising flags, in the frame the chairman of the presidium Andriy Skaba awards the Ivan Franko State University of Lviv, presents it to the rector Yevhen Lazarenko; speeches, in particular by the rector Lazarenko, Ivan Hrushetsky, Semen Stefanyk; Lviv University, Opera Theater from different angles, monument to Lenin.

Lviv University Awards, 1961

May 15, 2010, Lviv region.

In the video: tent camp, poster "Saint Yuri — the patron saint of Plast"; scouts on the toloka, setting up tents, blitz interview with scouts; cooking a bonfire and lunch; setting up the flags of the kuren, children playing; shooting, a girl talking about the tasks for the younger scouts; sports games.

Plast training: sports games

Lviv Television, 1962. A black-and-white silent newsreel dedicated to the opening of the Lviv Hippodrome.

On the video: Lviv Hippodrome, grandstand, spectators; speech by government officials, raising of the flag; a carriage with horses, opening of the stadium for performances; an athlete in a chariot, racing; show jumping; a jockey puts on his horse's gear, close-up; spectators sit on the grass, applause.

Opening of the Lviv Hippodrome, 1962

Lviv Television. A black-and-white silent story from April 23, 1962, from the "Pioneer News" program, dedicated to the opening of the children's railway in Stryi Park.

On the video: Stryi Park in Lviv, a monument to a pioneer; young pioneer railwaymen in festive uniforms, various shots; celebrations, opening ceremony, guests of the event; arrival of the train, children waving from the window, first ride.

Opening of the Children's Railway, 1962

November 2, 2007, Lviv.

The plot is dedicated to the found sculpture "Golgotha" and the restoration of the altar of the Armenian Cathedral.

In the video: composition, the researcher holds in his hands a part of the sculpture of the altar of "Golgotha" of the Armenian Cathedral, tells the story of the find; architectural ensemble, various plans of the altar.

Comments: President of the Foundation "Preservation of the Historical and Architectural Heritage of Lviv" Andriy Salyuk; Director of the National Museum in Lviv Ivan Kozhan; Representative of the Armenian community in Lviv Vardkez Arzumanyan.

Journalist — Olga Krupnyk.

Sculpture "Golgotha" of the Armenian Cathedral

May 12, 2015, Skole, Lviv region.

A plot about a mass burial of UPA soldiers discovered in the Altana tract. Excavations, forest, finds, trident, breastplates, icons, buttons, skeletons, metal detector search, view from the mountain.

Comments: Deputy Director of the Dolya Search Company Volodymyr Kharchuk; local historian Ihor Chudiy; searcher Mykhailo Voznyak; Director of the Chastka Search Company Svyatoslav Sheremet.

Mass burial of UPA soldiers

Lviv Television. Black-and-white chronicle for 1962, without sound.

In the video, Ukrainian historian Yaroslav Isaevich is reviewing old prints in the Central State Historical Archive in the city of Lviv; various plans of archival funds; researcher at work.

Reference: Yaroslav Isaevich is a Ukrainian historian, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, director of the I. Krypiakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies. He studied the history of Ukrainian culture in the early modern period, in particular brotherhoods, book publishing, the figure of Yuri Drohobych, and the activities of Ivan Fedorov. He introduced a number of little-known sources of the 17th–18th centuries into scientific circulation, and compiled a catalog of Ukrainian old prints.