The Construction of the Ukraine Stadium and Other Chronicles: 1959

Lviv Television, 1959.

In the video: a platform; the “Odessa–Lviv” train arrives; artists from the Kharkiv Musical Comedy Theater are greeted; an orchestra plays; people welcome them with flowers; the artists exit the cars and chat on the platform; a new trolleybus line, route number 4 departing from the center (Mickiewicz Square), passengers, a conductor selling tickets, a driver, the trolleybus traveling along the route, arriving at the terminal; children in national costumes and holding flowers greet Italian pioneers; guests climb the stairs; men give speeches among the crowd; people chat; groups perform; the audience applauds; a boy plays the piano; Polish pioneers in Bryukhovychi, children on the camp grounds, greeting each other, sitting on the grass and singing, a boy playing the accordion, children looking at a book; views of Lviv, the Lenin monument, Freedom Avenue; train station, a train arrives, people board a bus, many buses in the square, passengers, city guests on a tour; young Vietnamese people in Lviv, meeting at the train station, boarding buses, driving away; construction of the “Ukraine” stadium, many people on the field, digging, machinery at work; Adam Mickiewicz monument, various shots; trolleybus stop; trolleybus driver reports a breakdown to the dispatcher by phone, dispatcher calls the repair service; repair crew responds to the call.

Note: The “Ukraine” Stadium in Lviv was opened on August 18, 1963. The first match was held on that same day. “Karpaty” played against Vilnius's “Žalgiris.” The stadium was built over three years through a community-driven construction effort—each major enterprise in Lviv was responsible for its own section of the project. The construction was overseen by the third secretary of the city party committee, Volodymyr Mazur, who personally performed some of the manual labor on the site. The stadium’s architects were Yaroslav Nazarkevych, Larysa Skoryk, Yaroslav Porokhnavets, and Volodymyr Blyusyuk.

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