The Pioneers' March and Other Chronicles: 1959

Lviv Television, 1959.

In the video: Lychakiv Cemetery, a rally at the grave of Yaroslav Halan, marking the 10th anniversary of the writer’s death; Ivan Franko University, a memorial gathering in honor of Yaroslav Halan; a film adaptation of an unknown work; a march of the Pioneers; Dobrotvir, DRES (Thermal Power Plant); Naftali Botvin’s grave; view of Lviv’s city center from an observation deck; Opera House, portrait of Lenin, line to the theater; Soborna Square, trams moving, people walking down the street; monument to Vladislav Kozak, gravestones of Bronislava Hents, Petro Sikorsky, Mykola Pavliv; Puppet Theater; kinescopes, production, millionth kinescope; People’s House (today—Officers’ House); Lviv souvenirs; modernized machine tools at the automobile plant.

We are digitizing and publishing this video as part of a collaboration between Suspilne and the State Archives of Lviv Oblast.