March 24, 1999, Lviv. Lviv Television. The TV show “Veselyi Zamok.”

In the video: TV announcer Iryna Haidamaka announces that the program “Veselyi Zamok” will be replaced by the documentary “Yilesev Komaz” due to technical issues. Host Oksana Savchak explains that this is an April Fools’ Day prank, announces a contest, and introduces the judging panel. The program features contests and theatrical skits based on the works of Nikolai Gogol. Participants take on the roles of characters such as Oksana and Mykola, Panasykha and Panas, Solokha and Chuba. Marta Kostytska, a student at the Lviv Academic Gymnasium, performs the song “The Jazz-Playing Turkey” by Volodymyr Polyansky. Next come a hairstyle contest and a riddle contest, and the participants take part in search challenges. A group of Amazons performs a song, and Levko Durko sings April Fools’ Day songs. Yevhen Fedorchenko tells jokes and reads short stories. Contestants answer questions about what they would do if they became principals of their schools. Announcement of the winners, award ceremony, closing credits.

Participants in the program included: students of the Lviv Academic Gymnasium, Principal Volodymyr Starchevsky, and homeroom teacher Olga Huk.

Hosts: Oksana Savchak, Volodymyr Kozak.

“Veselyi zamok” 1999

Lviv Television Studio, 1990. The program “Sun Circle”.

A journey through Lviv accompanied by poems and songs about the city by the poet and bard Oles Dyak. The video shows various corners of Lviv, its streets, and city life. It includes excerpts from a performance by a local dance troupe.

The production team included: director P. Rozhok; cameramen M. Khvoinitsky, Y. Ukhanksy, and Y. Tkachenko; sound engineers M. Dribnyuk and O. Dirsh; administrator O. Brykaylo; video engineers S. Pyatov and V. Zozulyak; and editor A. Pegin.

A Tour of Lviv, 1990

1999, Lviv. Lviv Television. The program “Autograph” — “Ivan Vyhovsky: The Man and His Era.”

In the video: Lviv Art Gallery, an art exhibition dedicated to the anniversary of Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky’s death and the victory at the Battle of Konotop; Honored Artist of Ukraine Boris Oliinyk, dressed in military uniform, playing Cossack kettledrums; the sound of Cossack kettledrums, the exhibition dedicated to Ivan Vyhovsky, personal belongings of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, paintings from Pidhirtsi Castle, an exhibition on the history of the Zaporizhzhia Sich, exhibits, the sword of Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny, a 13th–14th-century icon of Paraskeva Pyatnitsa, the icon “The Transfer of the Relics of Nicholas of Myra,” portraits of hetmans, battle paintings, and a painted ladle from 1877.

Commentary by: Boris Voznytsky, director of the Lviv Art Gallery; Volodymyr Pshyk, head of the art gallery department and research associate; and Boris Oliinyk, Honored Artist of Ukraine.

The program was produced by: Vasyl Hlynchak, Bohdan Melnyk, Volodymyr Pavenskyi, Bohdan Gundyak, Stepan Suskyi, Liubomyr Kozak, Vladilen Dymyn, and Rostyslav Bryzhak.

“A Figure and His Era”: Ivan Vyhovsky

February 10, 2004, Lviv.

On the video: dungeons of the Lviv National Academic Opera and Ballet Theater, caryatids, various plans; landscapes of Lviv, Svobody Avenue, Museum of Ethnography, various plans; Garrison Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, excursion through the dungeons; temple, various plans; dungeons of the Pharmacy Museum, excursion, museum exposition.

Lviv Dungeons

From the personal archive of Yaroslav Kendzor.

January 17, 1989, Lviv.

On the video: Les Kurbas Theater, on stage Iryna Kalynets, Ihor Kalynets, Stefaniya Shabatura, Mykhailo Osadchy, Yevhen Sverstyuk, theater actors, applause; presentation of the diploma and Vasyl Stus Prize from the Ukrainian Association of Independent Creative Intelligentsia (UANTI) to the theater team, on stage Yevhen Sverstyuk and the theater's artistic director Volodymyr Kuchynsky; announcement of the Stus Prize award to literary critic and dissident Ivan Svitlychny and artist Afanas Zalyva, applause; performance by Afanas Zalyvakha.

Comments: writer Yevhen Sverstyuk; artistic director of the Les Kurbas Theater Volodymyr Kuchynsky; artist Afanas Zalyvakha.

Kendzor Archives: Vasyl Stus Prize

2004, Lviv Television. The program "...innocently killed" is dedicated to the investigation of the Sknyliv tragedy two years after it.

The video contains comments on the progress of the investigation by relatives of the deceased: Vitaliy Rudy (lost his son), the Motuzyk family (lost their son and daughter-in-law), Nina Ivanova (lost her son), Modest Vylushchak (lost his wife and daughter), Zinovy ​​Halayko (lost his son); psychologist Halyna Katolyk; lawyer Svitlana Khylyuk; deputy head of the Lviv regional administration Bohdan Matolych; commander of the 14th aviation corps Yuriy Synenko; veteran of the Sknyliv tragedy union Stefan Kozak.

Sknylivska tragedy: progress of the investigation

The plot from July 30, 2002 is dedicated to the rehabilitation of victims at the air show and the consequences of the Sknylivka tragedy for Ukrainian civil aviation.

In the video: hospital, ward with the victim, patient history; military aircraft at the airfield, journalist talks about the statistics of air accidents in Ukraine; fragments of the video with the plane crash.

Comments: Natalka Malykh, victim at the air show; Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Yevhen Marchuk.

Sknylivka tragedy: consequences for Ukrainian aviation

August 3, 2003, Lviv.

In the video: architecture of Lviv, churches, different plans; monuments, Pidvalna Street, monument to Ivan Fedorov, Vynnychenko Street (now Andriy Parubiy Square); Svobody Avenue, different plans, city residents; panorama of the city from the High Castle.

Lviv, August 3, 2003

July 20, 2007, Lviv region.

The plot is dedicated to the consequences of the phosphorus accident in the Lviv region.

In the video: the Minister of Transport of Ukraine Mykola Rudkovsky greets rescuers near the accident site, communicates with the Vice Prime Minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk; blitz interview with the residents of Lviv region about the contamination of the territory; rescue operations at the accident site; injured journalists, comments from the hospital; the Minister of Emergency Situations Nestor Shufrych enters the hospital premises, communicates with doctors; gates, the hospital building, people enter.

Comments: the Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Oleksandr Kuzmuk; ICTV correspondent Ivan Kryvyi; journalist Pavlo Tyrsky; the Minister of Emergency Situations Nestor Shufrych; intensive care doctor Ihor Konivets.

The consequences of the phosphorus accident near Ozhydov, 2007

April 15, 2011, Lviv.

The plot is dedicated to the illegal sale of historical documents of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army on marketplaces.

In the video: an announcement about the sale of the archives of the UPA headquarters, in particular the documents of Roman Shukhevych; comments of the scientist about the "black archaeologists"; legal advice, no fines.

Comments: director of the "Prison on Lontskoho" museum Ruslan Zabily; head of the public association for the search for war victims "Pam'yat" Lyubomyr Horbach; lawyer Oleh Mytsyk.

Journalist — Olga Krupnyk.

UPA Documents and "Black Archaeologists"

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.

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.