December 26, 2004, Sumy.

In the video: polling station, work of the commission, counting of votes; people vote, the commission accepts passports from citizens, issues ballots; ballot box, various plans; posters with candidates for president of Ukraine, biographical data; polling station No. 70, elderly people vote; preparation for recounting votes, work of the election commission.

Polling stations in the city of Sumy, 2004

Sumy TV. The episode of the program "Provincia" from November 10, 2002 is dedicated to the village of Mykhailivka.

On the video: landscapes of Mykhailivka, the Psel River; a story about the history of the founding of the village and the role of the Kapnist family in its development; old-timers tell about the village's traditions and cultural initiatives; embroidered paintings by Polina Tkachenko.

Comments: old-timers of the village of Mykhailivka Halyna Klyushnichenko, Polina Tkachenko; village head Viktor Lysyansky; resident of the count's house Lyubov Dyachenko.

Host — Raisa Stoyan.

Reference: Mykhailivka is a village on the Psel River, founded in 1675, known for the participation of residents in anti-tax and anti-grain procurement protests in 1932 and significant human losses during the Holodomor of 1932–1933. In the modern period, Mykhailivka is distinguished by its preserved natural and cultural landscape (Petrovsky and Cossack oaks, Poltava tier), a monument to the Mazepa people, and local gastronomic tradition. The preparation of borscht in the Lebedyn region is included in the list of elements of the intangible cultural heritage of the Sumy region.

Cossack village of Mykhailivka

Sumy TV. The program "Oleksiy Berest — Trial by Fate" from August 31, 2005 is dedicated to the biography of the veteran of the Soviet-German war, Hero of Ukraine Oleksiy Berest, and the grand opening of the monument in the city of Okhtyrka, Sumy region.

On the video: the opening ceremony, a theatrical performance with elements of Soviet propaganda, laying flowers; the monument from different angles, a commemorative plaque; veterans talk about Oleksiy Berest.

Comments: Oleksiy Berest's daughter Iryna Berest; Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anatoliy Hrytsenko; veterans Mykhailo Dzyubin, Oleksiy Chumak, Matviy Gnitii; Head of the Sumy Regional State Administration Mykola Lavryk.

Reference: Oleksiy Berest is a Ukrainian soldier of the Red Army, a direct participant in the installation of the "Victory Banner" over the Reichstag on April 30, 1945, whose role was recorded in military documents, but deliberately marginalized by Soviet official historiography. In modern Ukraine, he is recognized as a Hero of Ukraine (2005, posthumously) as a participant in World War II and a symbol of the unjust exclusion of Ukrainians from the Soviet heroic narrative. The awarding of the title of Hero of the russian federation to him in 2025 is considered by Ukrainian researchers as an element of modern Russian memorial and propaganda policy aimed at the retrospective appropriation of figures of Ukrainian origin within the framework of imperial discourse.

Oleksiy Berest: Monument Unveiling

Sumy TV. The program "The country begins with the borders" from September 9, 2005 is dedicated to the work of the border post "Sopych" in the Sumy region.

In the video: the state border of Ukraine and russia, the border village of Sopych, local residents; villagers talk about the improvement of life after the opening of the post; the checkpoint "Bachivsk" on the highway "Kyiv — moscow", the work of border guards; the work of the post, the territory, the training of the military; a blitzpoll of schoolchildren about the prestige of service in the State Border Service of Ukraine.

Comments: head of the technical support group, senior technician of the post Vitaly Panchenko; resident of the village of Sopych Natalia Zubkova; head of the department of inspectors of the Border Service of Ukraine Ihor Grobotsov; deputy head of the border post "Sopych" Dmytro Andriyashesky; director of the Sopych school Vasyl Oleksienko.

The program was worked on by: Liliya Naumova, Olena Borisenko, Viktor Lapchenko, Oleksandr Dyadchenko.

Border post "Sopych"

Sumy TV. The program "Colors and Melodies of a Ukrainian Holiday" from April 7, 2006, dedicated to the museum exposition of the Sumy Art Museum.

On the video: an exhibition of Ukrainian antiquities, an exposition from different plans, icons, temple sculptures, jewelry, authentic clothing, an ethnographic collection of shirts, ceramic dishes, Easter eggs; exhibits from the collections of the President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, Petro Honchar, director Vasyl Vovkun, Oleg Pinchuk, Lydia Lykhach, Mykola Dyachenko, Oleksandr Tkachenko; children paint Easter eggs.

Comments: Director of the Ivan Honchar Museum Petro Honchar; art historian, head of the decorative and applied arts department of the Sumy Art Museum Lyudmila Fedevich.

Sumy Art Museum: Ukrainian Antiquities

Sumy TV. The program "Treasures of the 'Popivka Academy'" from April 7, 2006, dedicated to the history of the village of Popivka and the creation of the "Popivka Academy" by Oleksandr Palitsyn.

On the video: the village of Zaliznyak, landscapes, archival photos of Ukrainian composers, writers and poets of the region; museum exhibit "The Tale of Igor's Campaign"; a local historian tells about the history of the academy, shows the territory of the former Popivka farm; a monument to Oleksandr Palitsyn.

Commented by the rector of the "Palitsyn Academy", local historian Mykhailo Teslya.

Host — Anna Chernobay.

Reference: Palitsyn (Popivka) Academy is a cultural and educational circle formed at the end of the 18th century in the estate of Oleksandr Palitsyn in Sumy region as a medium for intellectual and artistic communication of the local and visiting elite. The circle united poets, translators, architects and educators and functioned as a center for discussing literary, scientific and social issues, as well as an informal educational institution for children of nobles. The circle's activities contributed to the formation of a regional intellectual environment, in particular to initiatives to establish Kharkiv University. In the second half of the 20th and early 21st centuries, the revival of research into the history of the academy was carried out by Mykhailo Teslya, who formed a documentary base and initiated the modern Palitsyn Academy as a public cultural and artistic organization.

The phenomenon of the Palitsyn Academy

Sumy, 2001. SODTRK, Black and White program.

Engineer Alexander Myaus recalls how a group of radio relay network specialists attempted to introduce television to the region in 1961.


Sumy: first steps towards television

Sumy region, village of Nova Sloboda, 2002. SDTRK. Program “Don't ask for whom the bell tolls.”

Program author Raisa Stoyan and residents of the village of Nova Sloboda recall the tragic events that took place in the village on July 7, 1942.   

The program uses video and photo chronicles from World War II.

Comments: local residents Kateryna Larionova, Ulyana Matveeva, and Fedir Gudymov.

Reference: On July 4, 1942, during World War II, Sidor Kovpak's Soviet partisan detachment took up position in the forest near the village of Nova Sloboda in the Sumy region. On July 6, a battle took place between Kovpak's men and the Nazis, in which the Germans were defeated. The next day, July 7, a punitive battalion of the 105th Hungarian Royal Division entered the village and carried out an act of revenge against the local peasants: in less than an hour, 586 residents of two streets, Kovalevka and Baidarivka, were killed.

The tragedy of Nova Sloboda, 1942

Sumy Television. The program "Sim Chudes Sumyshchyna" from June 6, 2008 "Cathedral of Three Anastasias" is dedicated to the Three Anastasius Church in Hlukhiv.

In the video: the city of Hlukhiv, the cathedral, various plans, the history of the church; the interior of the church, frescoes, icons from different angles.

Commented by archaeologist, historian, employee of the Hlukhiv State Historical and Cultural Reserve Yuriy Kovalenko.

The program was worked on by: Raisa Stoyan, Viktor Lapchenko, Olena Borysenko, Serhiy Konoz.

Reference: The Three Anastasius Church in Hlukhiv is an Orthodox church built at the end of the 19th century at the expense of the Tereshchenko family on the site of the dismantled Hetman Anastasius Church of the 18th century. The temple became a significant center of religious and cultural life of the city, and its interior was decorated with paintings by leading artists, including Mykola Pymonenko.

Three Anastasius Church in Hlukhiv

Sumy, 2005. Sumy Regional State Television and Radio Company, program “Medicine and Us.”

A program about Sumy City Polyclinic No. 3, which is celebrating 75 years of operation. 

In the video: the polyclinic building, medical offices, equipment, medical staff, patients.

Comments: Chief Physician of the Polyclinic Volodymyr Kotkov; patient Tetiana Bela; Head of Therapeutic Department No. 2 Svitlana Kravchuk; Day Hospital Physician Borys Kolomiyets; functional diagnostics doctor Oleksiy Merkelov; ophthalmologist Nadiya Ivasiuk; midwife Galina Stegno; head of the physiotherapy department Zinaida Slatvinska.

Sumy City Polyclinic No. 3: weekdays and holidays

Sumy Television. The October 16, 2002 issue of the program "Countrymen" is dedicated to the artists Viktor and Halyna Mykhailichenko.

On the video: landscapes of Sumy region, interviews with artists; Viktor Mykhailichenko talks about work in Uzbekistan, scenography and the artist's purpose; interview with Halyna Mykhailichenko; watercolor works, workshop, sketches; exhibition of the Sumy Art Museum.

Comments: theater artist, member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine Viktor Mykhailichenko; artist, member of the Union of Artists of Ukraine Halyna Mykhailichenko; senior research associate of the Sumy Art Museum Iryna Pavlenko.

Reference: Viktor and Halyna Mykhailichenko are a married couple of Ukrainian artists who made a significant contribution to the development of scenography, decorative and applied arts and easel art in Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Viktor Mykhailychenko is a theater artist, laureate of the State Prize of Uzbekistan named after Hamza, the author of the design of more than 60 performances and numerous paintings. Galina Mykhailychenko is known for her tapestries with motifs of nature and mythology, a participant in all-Ukrainian and international exhibitions. Their works are kept in leading museum and private collections in Ukraine and the world.

The Mykhailichenkos' Work

Sumy Television. The program "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" from December 7, 2005 is dedicated to the activities of the Sumy newspaper "Panorama".

On video: student revolution in Sumy in 2004, photographs, newspaper edition with articles dedicated to the Sumy rally during the Orange Revolution; fragments of the television film "The Power of Protest"; landscapes of the city of Sumy, video from the Orange Revolution; survey of employees of the "Panorama" newspaper, telling about the course of the 2004 presidential elections of Ukraine, the reactions of the editorial office, strategies for protecting the rights of the community and the journalistic mission.

Comments (in russian): editor-in-chief of the socio-political newspaper "Panorama" Yevhen Polozhiy; deputy editor-in-chief of the "Panorama" newspaper Inna Klyshko; journalists of the newspaper "Panorama" Margarita Sytnyk, Leonid Savin, Oleksiy Sikorsky, Oleksiy Pedosenko; designer Pavlo Chertinov.

Journalist — Raisa Stoyan.