2006. Transcarpathian Regional State Television and Radio Company. The program "At the Call of the Earth" tells about the history and culture of the Lemkos in the village of Zarichevo in Transcarpathia, which is considered the heart of Lemkivshchyna.

The video deals with the history of the village, the first mentions of which date back to 1370, and the settlement of white Croats who were engaged in cattle breeding. A memorial cross preserved in Zarichevo reminds of the ancient settlement. The ethnographic museum "Lemkivska Manor" is also shown, located in the oldest building in the village, built in 1902. It tells about its arrangement and transformation into a museum of folk architecture and everyday life. Lemki songs are played in the program and it is about the activities of the "Lemkivchanka" choir.

Comment: Hanna Pekar, Maria Stanko, head of the ethnographic museum "Lemkivska Manor" Lyubov Pekar.

Author Victoria Chuchka, editor Tamara Dulinova, director Alla Avramenko, cameramen Volodymyr Duda and Beila Balla worked on the program.

"At the call of the earth": the history of the Lemkos in Zarichevo

June 26, 1995. Transcarpathian State Television and Radio Company. The program "Flower my Transcarpathia" tells about the history, nature, people and development of the westernmost region of Ukraine.

Fedir Sabov, a delegate to the First Congress of People's Committees of Transcarpathian Ukraine, recalls the life of young people during the Hungarian occupation, the persecution of Transcarpathians and preparations for the reunification of the region with Ukraine. Vasyl Andrishko talks about the congress held on November 26, 1944 in Mukachevo, the adoption of the manifesto on the reunification and creation of the People's Council of Transcarpathian Ukraine.

The archival chronicle shows the post-war development of the region: the opening of Uzhhorod State University in 1945, the construction of the Tereble-Ritska hydroelectric power station and salt mines in Solotvyn, the work of industrial enterprises and the development of agriculture. Among the cadres are — factories, sewing production, mountain villages, Shenborn Castle and cultural institutions of Uzhhorod.

The program also shows the speech of People's Deputy of Ukraine, Chairman of the Transcarpathian Regional Council of People's Deputies Serhiy Ustych at the meeting of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on June 21, 1995. 

Commenting: delegates of the First Congress of People's Committees of Transcarpathian Ukraine Fedir Sabov and Vasyl Andrishko, director of the Transcarpathian joint-stock company "Uzhgorod Sewing Factory" Myroslava Kalamunyak, farmer Vasyl Dobrunyk, People's Deputy of Ukraine, head of the Transcarpathian Regional Council of People's Deputies Serhiy Ustych.

"Flower my Transcarpathia": the memory of generations

Transcarpathian Television and Radio Broadcasting Association, 1993. The program "Mizhhirshchyna" is dedicated to the landscapes and centers of activity of the Mizhhirsk district (now part of the Khust district of the Transcarpathian region).

On the video: landscapes of the Carpathians; camp sites; mountain river; village of Mizhhirya; sanatorium "Verkhovyna"; Church of St. Michael; celebration of Youth Day in Mizhhirya; performance of an amateur art collective; amateur sports competitions; woodworking enterprise; Museum of Forestry and Rafting; exhibits; rafting on the Tereblya River in the "Ozoryanka" tract; Synevyr Lake; protected farm "Synevyr"; works of folk craftsmen; Peter and Paul Cathedral in the village of Mizhhirya; sports and recreation center "Verkhovyna"; swimming pool; gym; exercise equipment; pump room; camp site "Synevyr Lake"; mountain views at different times of the year; ski slopes in the Carpathians; camp site "Karpaty".

Mizhhirshchyna in Transcarpathia

"First National", 2003. The news story highlights the revival of the tradition of performing a serenade in honor of 80-year-old sakura trees and the period of tree flowering itself.

On the video: blooming sakura trees; military band; march around sakura trees; bust of T. H. Masaryk; Reformed Church in Uzhhorod.

Commentators: Uzhhorod resident Iryna Popovych; dendrologist Adal Rishko.

Bohdan Barbil worked on the plot.

Serenades in honor of sakura in Uzhhorod

July 7, 2007. Transcarpathian Regional State Television and Radio Company. The video film "In Search of a Lost Paradise" tells about the abandoned village of Kuzhbey in Mizhhirshchyna. The authors investigate why people left the village, who stayed there to live and what its uniqueness lies in.

The film shows landscapes of the Carpathians, forests and mountains, as well as the village of Kuzhbey and its surroundings. The story is complemented by sound recordings of the folklore of Transcarpathia in the 1930–1940s from the archive of Ivan Pankevich, used based on Mykola Mushinka's book "The Voice of the Ancestors", published in Pryševo, Slovakia.

The following worked on the video film: screenwriter Dmytro Keshelya, director Nataliya Tron, cameraman Volodymyr Duda, sound engineer Oleg Sharkov, editors Nataliya Denisyuk and Svitlana Tomori, editor Iryna Harmasii. Dmytro Keshelya read the text.

"In search of a lost paradise": the abandoned village of Kuzhbeyi

The children's program "Dyvosvit" tells about the Uzhhorod Botanical Garden, conducts a tour of the park, and highlights its history and ways to replenish the natural fund.

On the video: archive footage of the Uzhhorod Botanical Garden; cotoneaster; mammoth tree; tulip tree; three-petal magnolia; horizontal cotoneaster; flowering calicanth; ginkgo biloba; Thunberg barberry; vinegar tree; western plane tree; Valehiana pine.

The director of the botanical garden, Dmytro Soyma, talks about the history of the park; dendrologist Nadiya Kopynets talks about the plants on its territory.

The following people worked on the release of the program: author — Lyudmila Bilak; director — Ivan Marushka; host — Maria Slivka; videographer — Volodymyr Duda; sound engineer — Volodymyr Sholokh; editing by Sylvia Kochish; studio operators — Eduard Seled, Mykhailo Kolodiy; assistant director — Vitalia Levchak; art design by Tetiana Markovych; assistant director — Kateryna Dolhosh; technical support — Mykola Skunts, Arpad Benke, Norbi Yuhas, Oleksiy Marglevskyi, Yaroslav Bilyak.

Uzhhorod Botanical Garden

February 28, 1997. Transcarpathian State Television and Radio Company.

The program "Chinadievo: social portrait" — is a story about the life of a village in the Mukachevo region, its inhabitants, the work of local institutions and the development of the social sphere. The program shows the school, bakery, district hospital, art school, work of the village council and everyday life of Chinadiyev. Representatives of local institutions talk about the problems faced by residents and the achievements of the village. The program ends with the performance of Taras Petrynenko and Tetyana Horobets with the song "White Ocean". The video uses filming of artists during their stay in Transcarpathia and a concert at the Transcarpathian Music and Drama Theater.

Commenting: deputy director of the secondary comprehensive school Volodymyr Kryshinets, head of the village council Mykola Bugai, senior nurse Hanna Biley, district therapist Anastasia Smereka, director of the art school Mykhailo Fendyk.

The program was worked on by: author and presenter Omelyan Plesha, director Ivan Markusha, sound engineer Stepan Kuchmash, cameraman Volodymyr Duda, musical design Maria Pekar, editing by Tünde Poladi, credits artist Marianna Zbona, technical support by Arpad Benke, Mykola Skunts, Mykola Vakula.

Chinadievo: a village in Mukachevo region


March 10, 1995. Uzhhorod.

International Shevchenko literary and artistic holiday "In a free, new family" in the Transcarpathian Regional Music and Drama Theater. The concert program features works to the words of Taras Shevchenko performed by soloists of the Taras Shevchenko National Opera of Ukraine, the Hryhoriy Veryovka National Academic People's Choir and other participants of the holiday.

On the video: performances of artists on the stage of the theater, performance of vocal works accompanied by the ensemble "Native Chants", performance of a bandurist, works to the words of Taras Shevchenko.

Performers: Halyna Oplia — "Lament of Yaroslavna" by Taras Shevchenko, music by Kucherenko. Valentina Stepova, soloist of the Taras Shevchenko National Opera of Ukraine — "Waltz, waltz, waltz", "The violin is playing on the street". Petro and Pavlo Pryimaki, soloists of the Taras Shevchenko National Opera of Ukraine — "Such is her fate", "Hutsulka Ksenia". Tetyana Kavun, soloist of the National Academic Folk Choir named after Hryhoriy Veryovka — "Oh, three broad ways" to the words of Taras Shevchenko, music by Stepovoy, and Natalka's song from Mykola Lysenko's opera "Natalka Poltavka".


Shevchenko holiday in Uzhhorod: "In a free, new family"

Transcarpathian State Television and Radio Company, 2002. The program "A Knot for Memory" is dedicated to the history of the Brashchayk brothers — public, political, and cultural figures of the 1920s and 1930s — and the street of the same name in Uzhhorod, in the historical part of the city.

In the video: views of Brashchaykiv Street; memorial plaque to poet Yuriy Andriyovych Goyda; buildings located on this site: the military prosecutor's office of the Uzhgorod garrison; houses built in the 1930s–1940s; Uzhgorod City Children's Hospital; a poll of Uzhgorod residents: "Who are the Brashchayks?"; Mykhailo Belen's book "Carpathian Ukraine in Portraits."

Commentators: Doctor of Historical Sciences, public figure Pavlo Fedaka; sculptor, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine Mykhailo Belen.

The program was created by: Olena Adamchuk, Yurii Kovalov, Artur Bulyna, Attila Herdynskyi, Nataliia Shtefutsa, Kateryna Petkanych, Maksym Boltoniazov.
The program was hosted by Rostyslavа Dzhumurat.

Reference: the Brashchaiky brothers (Yuliy, Mykhailo, Anton) are Ukrainian socio-political and cultural figures of Transcarpathia of the 20th century: Yuliy is an organizer of the Khust People's Council, one of the founders of the Russian (Ukrainian) Agricultural Party, head of the "Pidkarpatsky Bank"; Mykhailo is a deputy of the first Diet of Carpathian Ukraine; Anton is a doctor.

History of Brashchaykiv Street in Uzhhorod

Transcarpathian Television, 2004. The art program "Memory of Childhood" is dedicated to the Slovak national minority in the village of Turya-Remeta, Transcarpathian region and their Christmas traditions.

In the video: a girl prays in Slovak, recites poetry, a shopka; acquaintance with a Slovak family, Slovak traditions, cooking traditional dishes; caroling; a story about the cultural and material heritage of the Perechyn region, where the Slovak national minority lives compactly.

Commented by a resident of the village of Turya-Remeta of Slovak origin, Yulianna Voronych.

Host — Viktoriya Chuchka.

Reference: Slovaks of Ukraine are one of the indigenous national minorities of Transcarpathia, the majority of whose representatives historically live in the Uzhhorod, Perechyn, Mukachevo and Velykoberezny districts of the region. In Perechyn, the Slovak community was formed as a result of centuries-old migration processes and has preserved certain linguistic, cultural and ethnographic features, which are part of the multinational heritage of the Transcarpathian region.

Traditions of the Slovak community in the Perechyn region

Transcarpathian Television, 1997. The TV film "Alien Fate" is dedicated to the memories of the residents of the village of Patskanovo, Transcarpathian region, about life's trials, traditional life, family values, and women's fate in the conditions of a mountain village.

In the video: a village hut; women are putting firewood on the fire by the stove, baking potatoes on the stove ("baking banki on a spur"), shelling corn, knitting, embroidering, cooking food; in the yard, they are feeding chickens, chopping firewood, and drawing water from a well; scenes of everyday life; women are performing folk songs; winter landscapes of the village: snowy gardens, trees covered with hoarfrost, a frozen stream with ice holes, a lonely tree in a field, fog over the mountains. Village residents talk about their own fate, raising children, parents, local and family traditions, student years, youth leisure in the village, attitude to swearing, folk beliefs and dreams.

Comments from residents of the village of Patskanovo: Maria Panko, Maria Slivkanych, Maria Maradyk, Hanna Logoyda, Hanna Svida, Iryna Terpak, Hanna Galasnyk.

"Alien Fate": Women's Fate in Mountain Villages

Transcarpathian Television, 2002. Editorial Office of Art Programs. The program "Perechynshchyna — Land of Talents" is dedicated to the festival of folk art on the territory of the museum-estate "Lemkivska Sadyba".

On the video: museum-estate "Lemkivska Sadyba", festival visitors, creative groups of the Perechyn district; comments of officials about the significance of the local festival, the history of its founding, the museum-estate "Lemkivska Sadyba", its exposition and the importance of preserving it as a monument of local importance; stories about the creative groups presented at the festival, folk spirituality and traditional culture of the region; children's groups perform folk songs dedicated to wedding ceremonies, traditional dances and musical compositions.

Comments: Head of the Perechyn district state administration Ihor Fedykovych; Head of the village council of the village of Zarichevo Yuriy Fedaka; resident of the village of Zarichevo Ivan Kovch; head of the Turytska village council Maria Mykyta; methodologist, ethnography teacher of the Turytska secondary school of grades I-II Maria Didyk.

The following people worked on the program: Rostyslav Dzhumurat, Kristina Matta, Volodymyr Duda, Volodymyr Sholokh, Mariana Orsag, Silvia Kochish, Maria Pekar, Volodymyr Legeza, Viktor Kyrylyuk.

Zakarpattia region