Chernihiv local historian Hryhoriy Petrash

Chernihiv Television. Issue "Artist, researcher, photographer" of the program "Our Openings" from November 20, 2001, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Hryhoriy Petrash.

On the video: photographs with Hryhoriy Petrash, various plans, biography of the artist; graphics and watercolors by Hryhoriy Petrash, museum exposition; scientific certificate of the head of the museum, comments contain elements of propaganda; landscapes of Chernihiv, architecture of the city; colleagues and researchers of the Chernihiv Regional Historical Museum named after Vasyl Tarnovsky share memories of Hryhoriy Petrash; the place at the museum where the artist lived; Petrash's letters to friends; exposition of the Chernihiv Historical Museum.

Comments: Lyudmila Maiboroda, head of the military history department at the Vasyl Tarnovsky Historical Museum; Svitlana Polovnikova, head of the pre-revolutionary history department of the museum; Rosalia Makhlina, research associate at the museum in 1949–1953; Nadiya Chernyavska, deputy director of the museum in 1952–1975; Lidiya Poludenko, head of the contemporary history department from 1951 to 1969; Matrona Popudrenko, deputy director of the museum from 1948 to 1983 and honored worker of culture; Svitlana Klyuchnyk, head of the art department from 1967 to 1984; Head of the Contemporary Art Department from 1950 to 1983, Maria Lukyanenko.

Host — Tetyana Myrhorodska.

Reference: Heorhiy Petrash is a Chernihiv local historian and artist who specialized in visual reconstruction of monuments. He worked at the Chernihiv Historical Museum and participated in the research of the Transfiguration Cathedral. He left behind a significant body of graphic and pictorial works that capture the historical appearance of Chernihiv.