ODTRK "Ltava", 2008. The program "Treasures of the Museums of Poltava Region" tells about the exhibits of the Museum of Ukrainian Weddings in the village of Velyki Budyshcha, Dykansky District (now Poltava), Poltava Region.

On the video: Ukrainian women's clothing; mirror; stands with old photographs; Ukrainian stove; a casing used in customs; a sprig — ceremonial cherry branches with ribbons; viburnum branches; embroidered towels; a festive table; festive decorations; elements of the redemption ceremony: a wooden rocking chair and a cap with a flower; old banknotes; a chest with clothes, jewelry, shoes; shirts of a young wife from the dowry; dishes: bowls, beaters, makitriks; a cradle; a spinning wheel.

Museum Director Oksana Trepolska talks about the elements of the exhibition and their ritual significance.

Oksana Trepolska, Alla Husak, Serhiy Zalesky, Larisa Shapovalova, and Olena Sharbenko worked on the program.

Ukrainian Wedding Museum

ODTRK "Ltava", 2007. The program "Treasures of the Museums of Poltava Region" is dedicated to the expositions of the Poltava Museum of Aviation and Cosmonautics.

On the video: the building of the Poltava Museum of Aviation and Cosmonautics; a memorial sign to Yuri Kondratyuk in Poltava; museum exhibits: the first artificial satellite of the Earth; a globe of the planet, on which 25 operating cosmodromes are indicated; a stand about the creator of the first domestic powder rockets Oleksandr Zasyadko; inventor Mykola Kybalchych; the founders of Ukrainian aviation, the Kasyanenko brothers; inventor of the backpack aviation parachute Gleb Kotelnikov; Yuri Kondratyuk's memorial hall; a bust of the inventor; a stand about aviation construction in the Poltava region; a stand about the American-Soviet military aviation operation "Frantik" (Poltava airfield hub — the base of American heavy bombers); personal belongings and models of the Ukrainian Soviet designer Volodymyr Chelomey; a section of the exposition about the round-the-world flight of the Ukrainian heavy transport aircraft An-124 "Ruslan".

The director of the Poltava Museum of Aviation and Cosmonautics, Dmytro Kalnyi, talks about the exhibitions, life and activities of Ukrainian inventors, designers and figures in the field of rocketry.

The program was produced by: Alla Husak, Dmytro Kalnyi, Serhii Zaleskyi, Olena Sharbenko, Nataliia Chernysh, Olena Divytska, Nataliia Rabotina.

Poltava Museum of Aviation and Cosmonautics

November 29, 2006. Poltava Regional Television and Radio Company "Ltava". The documentary film "Fates beyond poplars..." tells about the history of the creation and development of the Poltava Regional Psychiatric Hospital named after Oleksandr Maltsev.

The film uses archival photos of the hospital, tells about the medical staff, chief doctors and working with patients. Particular attention is paid to the period of the Second World War. Hospital employees remember how during the occupation, medical personnel hid with patients in the basement of the institution and share memories of the shootings that took place there.

Comment: Nadiya Pavlova, the first operating nurse of the hospital, Oleksiy Deneko, Honored Doctor of Ukraine, chief physician in 1971–2001 (comment in Russian), Antonina Morozova, deputy chief physician in 1984–2001, Serhiy Shmygol, hospital nurse in 1936–1986. 

Nataliya Svyattseva, Marfa Butorina, Mykola Yanko, Oleksandr Nikolenko, Nataliya Chernysh, Olena Divytska, Ruslan Bilyshko, Olena Shcherbina, Oleksiy Deneko, Serhiy Shmyhal, Antonina Morozova, Nadiya Pavlova, Maksym Deneko, Anatoly Pasichnyi, Lyudmila Samolelis, Yulia Minko, Ivan Kit.


"Fates behind poplars...": history of a psychiatric hospital in Poltava

August 15, 2007. Poltava region, Myrhorod district.

Opening of the Sorochyn Fair —, one of the largest fair events in Poltava Oblast. The material shows a theatrical performance with the participation of characters, musical performances, fair trade and traditional crafts.

In the video: general and different plans of the Sorochyn fair, an actor in the image of Mykola Gogol, a trio of horses, a cart, oxen, a sheaf of hay with a thank you, a stage and a performance by a folk group, a theatrical performance with the participation of Baba Yavdokha, guests and visitors of the fair. Cooking, the work of a cook and blacksmiths, forging iron. Embroidered shirts and traditional clothing, clothing trade. Musical instruments, including pipes and pipes, clay jugs, plates, wooden figurines and other souvenirs. Sign "Sorochyn Fair", wood-carved portraits of Taras Shevchenko and Viktor Baloga, necklaces, a book with portraits of Ukrainian figures, carved pipes and straw products.


Sorochyn Fair of 2007

First National, 2002. The news release's story highlights the events organized to mark the 280th anniversary of the birth of Ukrainian writer, philosopher, and teacher Hryhoriy Skovoroda, including the updated exhibition at the Chornukhyn Literary and Memorial Museum of H. S. Skovoroda.

On the video: Chornukhinsky Literary and Memorial Museum of G. S. Skovoroda; "parents' house" of Skovoroda; updated exposition; monument to G. Skovoroda; damaged building of Chornukhinsky Central District Library named after G. S. Skovoroda; portrait of the writer; Volodymyr Pidpaly's publication "Skovoroda Thoughts"; signpost with the inscription "Chornukhy".

Commented by: Vira Marchenko, research associate at the G. S. Skovoroda Museum; Borys Galushko, head of the Chornukhyn District State Administration.

Tamara Khrushch and Volodymyr Lozenko worked on the plot.

280th anniversary of Hryhoriy Skovoroda: events in the writer's native village

January 1, 1997. Poltava Regional Television and Radio Company «Ltava». The documentary film "It was Operation Vistula" tells about the Lemkos resettled from the territory of Poland to Poltava Oblast and their memories of forced eviction.

The film tells: about the Vistula operation, its goal and the attempts of the Polish authorities to resolve the "Ukrainian issue" on the territory of Poland, about the forced eviction of Ukrainians from their native homes, the first immigrants from Poland to Poltava Oblast, and difficult years of adaptation and survival. The film also raises the topic of unfulfilled promises of the authorities.

In the video: migrant Lemkas and their families, archival photos, newsreel footage, archival documents of 1948.

Commenting: immigrants from the village of Kamianna, Kraków Voivodeship: Petro Pryslonskyi, Fedora Hochlyak, Maryna Fuchko, Maria Derkach, Maria Myroshnychenko. Immigrants from the village of Peregryma, Kraków Voivodeship: Ivan Shelem, Maria Shopik. Immigrants from the village of Kosiv, Kraków Voivodeship: Pavlo Borys, Olga Petrenko.

The following worked on the film: script authors Alla Husak, Nataliya Ivanchenko, Vera Koshova, director Alla Husak, text read by Alla Husak, cameramen Artem Husak, Volodymyr Startsev, Maksym Starykov, sound operator Olena Shcherbina, editing Olena Kiyanchuk, computer graphics Olena Sharbenko, editor Natalia Ivanchenko.

"It was Operation Vistula": memories of immigrants

October 29, 2004, the village of Hrynky, Poltava region.

The plot is dedicated to the opening ceremony of the gas pipeline in the village of Hrynky in the Poltava region.

In the video: views of the village; work of gas workers on laying and connecting the gas pipeline; village residents; comments from residents who talk about the importance of gasification for the community; Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine Viktor Slauta talks about the implementation of gasification programs in rural settlements, challenges and results of the work done; village residents cook dinner on a gas stove; a feast on the occasion of the gas connection.

Comments: war invalid, resident of the village of Hrynky Vasyl Kapusta; Hrynky village head Lyudmila Oksanchuk; Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine Viktor Slauta.

The plot was worked on by: Serhiy Syvolap, Volodymyr Nepyipyvo, Kostyantyn Khudolyi.

Opening of the gas pipeline in the village of Hrynky

First National, 2003. A report on the fight by special units of the Security Service of Ukraine against organised crime groups which, using their own intelligence, night-vision equipment and a fleet of petrol tankers, were stealing gas in the Poltava region. Taps into gas pipelines and illegal oil depots were discovered in the Gadyach (which, following the 2020 reform, is now part of the Myrhorod district) and Zinkiv (part of the current Poltava district) districts. Law enforcement officers dismantled the criminal groups that were siphoning off gas and storing the stolen gas condensate using specialised equipment.

In the video: petrol tankers, the SBU office building in Poltava, gas tanks, law enforcement officers inspecting the vehicles, and a comment from Mykola Sokhatskyi, head of the SBU’s special unit in the Poltava region.

The report was prepared by Rostyslav Martyniuk and Volodymyr Dzyuba.


Tackling gas theft in the Poltava region

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1980.

The TV film "Holiday in Sumy Region" is dedicated to the fair in the village of Velyky Sorochyntsy, Poltava region.

On the video: performance of Ukrainian folk songs; fair, people, overview of the territory, musicians playing folk music.

"Holiday in Sumy Region": Velyky Sorochyntsy

July 21, 2010, Poltava region.

The plot is dedicated to the activities of the collective farm in Kryukivska penal colony No. 29.

In the video: the territory of the colony, the work of prisoners, peasants talk about their experience working with prisoners; cows, caring for animals; bakery, prisoners at work; field behind barbed wire.

Comments: peasant, combine harvester Oleksandr Kanivets; convict from Kryukivska penal colony No. 29 Vitaly; head of Kryukivska penal colony No. 29 Serhiy Dovzhenko.

Journalist — Olena Tsarenko.

Collective farm activities in prison

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Television Film Studio "Ukrtelefilm", 1994.

The film "The Last Supper in Sorochyntsy" is dedicated to the history of the Great Sorochyntsy and the residence of Danylo the Apostle.

On the video: the Church of the Transfiguration, various plans, historical information about the Great Sorochyntsy; prayer, the interior of the church, features of the decoration and Cossack icons, an iconostasis close-up.

Valery Shevchuk reads an excerpt from Ivan Velichkovsky's handwritten book "The Clock with a Half-Clock". The film uses choral concerts by Maxim Berezovsky.

The film "The Last Supper in Sorochyntsy"

December 4, 2006, Poltava Region.

The plot is dedicated to a rare millennial oak found in the forests of Poltava Region.

In the video: forest, different plans; men measure the diameter of the trunk with their hands; different plans of the oak, a forester near the oak; landscapes of Poltava Region.

Comments: Head of the Poltava Forestry Department Oleksandr Yaresko; forester Viktor Rudenko.

The plot was worked on by: Lyudmila Spivak, Volodymyr Nepyipyvo, Kostyantyn Khudolyi.