Concert for Kyiv Day, 1995

1995, Ukrainian National Television.

The video shows a gala concert to mark Kyiv Day at the Singing Field. The stage, presenters announcing the concert performers, the concert programme, the final performance during his lifetime by People’s Artist of Ukraine Nazariy Yaremchuk, a speech by the Chairman of the Kyiv City Council Leonid Kosakivsky, a celebratory fireworks display, and People’s Artist of Ukraine Dmytro Hnatyuk performing a prayer for the Ukrainian people.

Concert participants: the National Guard of Ukraine Orchestra; conductor Anatoliy Molotay; People’s Artist Anatoliy Palamarenko; the Sveshnikov State Academic Russian Folk Choir; the State Orchestra of Folk Instruments; composer Viktor Hutsal; People’s Artist Maria Stef’yuk; People’s Artist of Ukraine Nazariy Yaremchuk; Belarusian ensemble ‘Syabry’; People’s Artist Anatoliy Litvinov; students of the Variety and Circus School; Honoured Artist Pavlo Zibrov; The Polissya Song and Dance Ensemble “Lyonok”; People’s Artist of the USSR Vasyl Lanovyi; soloists of the National Opera of Ukraine Pavlo and Petro Pryimaky; The Pavlo Virsky State Dance Ensemble of Ukraine; People’s Artist of Russia Lev Leshchenko; singer Yevhen Moskalenko; the Darnytskyi District ensemble.