October 10, 1996, Sumy.

The video shows the National Foundation for Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation, which pays compensation to concentration camp prisoners and Ostarbeiters. 

A woman is applying for a payment, people are waiting in line, a man is receiving Deutschmarks; the Regional State Archive, a poster “Greetings from Germany,” photographs, letters, documents, files of forcibly deported Ukrainians, newspapers.

Note: Payments to former forced laborers from Ukraine were made by the Ukrainian National Foundation for Mutual Understanding and Reconciliation, which later became a partner organization of the Foundation for Memory, Responsibility, and the Future. The foundation was founded after an agreement was signed on December 16, 1992, between Boris Yeltsin and Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl. This agreement, among other things, determined the amount of payments for citizens of russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

The russian federation and Ukraine received 400 million Deutschmarks each, and Belarus received 200 million Deutschmarks, intended for payments to victims of the National Socialist regime. The agreement concluded in 1993 between Germany, russia, Ukraine and Belarus defined the categories of persons who suffered from the Nazi regime. These included those who had been held in concentration camps, prisons, or ghettos, as well as those who had worked for at least six months in forced labor. The list of victims also included children who were forcibly adopted or kept in labor camps.

Forcibly removed

Sumy Regional TV and Radio Company, 2008. Program on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the proclamation of Hlukhiv as the Hetman's capital. 

The video shows shots of the autumn city, people, churches, monuments, the bus station, Kyiv Gate, archival photos of the city, historical figures.  It tells about the history of the city, the proclamation of anathema to Ivan Mazepa, the destruction of churches and the execution of Cossacks by order of the russian tsar, Taras Shevchenko's stay in Hlukhiv, and the creation of the Singing School.

Comments: Viktor Zaika, senior lecturer at Hlukhiv Pedagogical University; Yurii Kovalenko, historian, archaeologist, employee of the Hlukhiv Historical and Cultural Reserve; Serhii Slesarev, director of the State Historical and Cultural Reserve.

Author: Raisa Stoyan.

“Hlukhiv is the Hetman's capital”

May 15, 2005, Sumy.

The program “Constellation of Slobozhanshchyna” about the amateur choir of the Sumy Bread Products Plant “Suzirya”. A performance of the choir, participants in national costumes performing Ukrainian songs, a rehearsal, a collection of songs by Ivan Slyta signed by the author. 

Comments: Yakiv Brovko, manager of the enterprise, founder of the choir; Arkadiy Levchuk, artistic director of Suzirya; Valentyna Redka, choir head; Serhiy Yatsenko, choir soloist; Mykola Dovhaniuk, director of the Sumy Bakery Plant.

The choir of the Sumy bread factory

Sumy Regional State Television and Radio Company. The program “Who are we?” for February 14, 1999 is dedicated to the history of Petropavlivska Street in the city of Sumy.

On the video: the city, roads, different plans; Petropavlivska Street, winter; black-and-white photographs of the forgotten city in the post-war period: Sumy Regional Scientific Medical Library, the Sukhanov-Sumovsky Manor — Department of Capital Construction of the Sumy City Council; Sumy Real School, nearby school No. 4; the building of the Sumy Regional Philharmonic, fragments of chronicles, the building of the “Lux” cinema; Arshavsky’s mansion (or “House of the Inconsolable Widow”); the building of the former Sumy District Administrative Court; evening shots of the city of Sumy.

Author — Svitlana Balym, director — Oleksandr Makhonko.

Program “Who are we?”: Petropavlivska Street

Sumy, February 27, 2004.

The video shows the visit of the President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma to Sumy National Agrarian University. Students with flowers and banners, the president with students in the audience receiving and giving gifts. 

Kuchma at Sumy Agrarian University

Sumy Regional State Television and Radio Company. The program “From the Decay of Oblivion” for December 6, 2002 is dedicated to the history of the Holy Resurrection Cathedral to the 300th anniversary of its consecration.

On the video: church bell ringing, festive procession to the church; Holy Resurrection Cathedral from different angles; tells about Gerasym Kondratiev and the construction of the cathedral; 300-year history of the church - about the first stone building of the city, the tomb of the family of the founder of the city Gerasym Kondratiev; the church's dungeon; exposition of the Sumy Museum of Local Lore, archival documents, photographs; service in the church, clergy, prayer.

Comments: Bishop of Sumy and Okhtyrsky (Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate) Flavian; researcher of the Sumy Museum of Local Lore, Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine Lada Sapukhina; Bishop of Chernihiv and Nizhyn (UOC-KP) Vladyka Mykhail; Archpriest Oleksandr Dvinyatin; Honored Worker of Culture of Ukraine, Chief Specialist for the Protection of Monuments of the Main Cathedral and Architecture Viktor Vechersky; celebration in the courtyard of the church.

Created by: Raisa Stoyan, Artem Skrypnyak, Oleksandr Gvozdyk, Natalya Narodnytska, Ruslan Pavlov, Oleksandr Brusovtsov, Serhiy Lazarenko.

“From the Decay of Oblivion”: Holy Resurrection Cathedral

Sumy Television. The program “Creator of the Kalina Miracle” for April 28, 2005 is dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the poet Dmytro Bilous and the literary and artistic holiday “Oh, Earth, Native Ukraine, There Is No Other in the World” in the village of Kurmany, Sumy region.

On the video: performances by folk amateur groups, recitation of poems; archival photos of the Bilous family; memories of friends and colleagues about Dmytro Bilous; the poet’s books, various plans.

Contains archival videos with performances by Dmytro Bilous.

Comments: People’s Artist of Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko Prize laureate Anatoly Mokrenko; Hryhoriy Skovoroda International Prize laureate, Chairman of the Cherkasy Regional Union of Writers of Ukraine Hryhoriy Bilous; Head of the Press Service of the National Council for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine, Chairman of the Nedryhaylivka Community in Kyiv Mykola Hrytsenko.

“Creator of the Kalina Miracle”: poet Dmytro Bilous

January 24, 2005, Sumy.

Video of the inauguration celebration of the third President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, on the Independence Square in the city of Sumy. A rally, people dance, wave flags of Ukraine, the party “Our Ukraine”, orange flags “Yushchenko YES!”, Taras Petrynenko’s song “Ukraine” is heard, the crowd sings. A quick interview with the participants of the celebration.

Comments: Sumy City Council deputy Borys Kogan; acting secretary of the Sumy City Council Serhiy Klochko; deputy head of the regional election headquarters of Viktor Yushchenko Volodymyr Baranov;

Journalist — Raisa Stoyan.

Yushchenko's inauguration: celebrations in Sumy

Sumy Regional TV and Radio Company, July 13, 1995. The documentary program “The Twentieth Century in the Memoirs of Mykhailo Shcherban”, continuation of the second part “The Camp”, the third part “Bureaucracy”.

Mykhailo Shcherban talks about his wartime and postwar life, the Soviet bureaucracy, and newcomers to the country in government positions.

The program uses black-and-white chronicles of the collectivization period, the Soviet and German occupations of Ukraine.

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The Twentieth Century in the Memoirs of Mykhailo Shcherban. Series II.

Sumy Regional TV and Radio Company, July 13, 1995. The documentary program “The Twentieth Century in the Memoirs of Mykhailo Shcherban”, part one “The Kulakliada”, part two “The Camps”.

Mykhailo Shcherban tells about his pre-war and wartime life, collectivization, and escape from German captivity.
The program uses black-and-white chronicles of the period of collectivization in Ukraine.

The Twentieth Century in the Memoirs of Mykhailo Shcherban. Series I.

Sumy Television. The August 14, 2006 issue of the program “Terra Incognita” is dedicated to the history of the Bilsk hillfort (part two).

On the video: “Gold of the Scythians”: Scythian gold, photos of jewelry, Pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla, burial mounds, different angles of the summer meadow; gold signet ring with a chariot; photos of archaeological excavations, ceramic products, various types of Greek amphorae, examples of Scythian weapons, different types; Akinaki swords, collection; women's tombs: jewelry, photos of jewelry, Greek perfumes, death masks, anthropomorphic figures from burial mounds; wheat fields, horses, peasants, objects of rural life; fragments of the films “Alexander” and “Genghis Khan”.

Comments: Director of the Bilsk Historical and Cultural Reserve Viktor Pryimak; Associate Professor of the Volodymyr Korolenko Poltava National Pedagogical University Petro Gavrish.

The following people worked on the release: Tetyana Holub, Oleksandr Novozhon, Olena Borysenko, Oleksandr Dyadchenko, Volodymyr Kolesnyk, Olga Ivanova.

“Terra Incognita”: Bilskoye settlement, part 2

Sumy Television. The August 4, 2006 issue of the program “Terra Incognita” is dedicated to the history of the Bilsk settlement (part one).

On the video: Kyiv temples; Sumy, city architecture; Chernihiv, the Transfiguration Cathedral; Rivne, the Holy Resurrection Cathedral; “City of Scythians — Gelon”: Bilsk settlement, hills, landscape of the monument, different angles, the presenter tells the history of the city; Scythian mounds, villages around the monument; photos of archaeological monuments of the Scythian period, artifacts (among them — the sword Akinak); Historical and Cultural Reserve “Bilsk”, maps, history of research; Vorskla River, Sukha Hrun; photos of archaeological excavations of different years; village, well, apiary, examples of dugouts; drawings of dwellings of the Scythian period; Scythian pantheon: images of gods; “Scythian superpower”: city square, research of an ancient metropolis, an archaeologist photographs hills; historical reconstruction of the Mongol invasion; Scythian gold, photos of jewelry from museum collections.

Comments: Associate Professor of the Volodymyr Korolenko Poltava National Pedagogical University Petro Gavrish; Director of the Historical and Cultural Reserve “Bilsk” Viktor Pryymak.

The following authors worked on the publication: Tetyana Holub, Oleksandr Novozhon, Olena Borysenko, Oleksandr Dyadchenko, Volodymyr Kolesnyk, Olga Ivanova.

Reference: Bilsk settlement is a large Scythian fortified settlement located on the border of Poltava and Sumy regions, between the Vorskla and Sukhaya Hrunya rivers. This is one of the largest Scythian settlements in Eastern Europe, with an area of ​​4,400 hectares. The settlement was an important political and cultural center of the Scythian period, existing from the end of the 8th to the beginning of the 3rd centuries BC. Its territory was inhabited by a diverse population, including Budins, Gelons, Neurs, and other tribes. The Bielsko settlement is often identified with the city of Gelon, as mentioned by the ancient Greek historian Herodotus.