Filming of “Oleksa Dovbush” and other newsreels: 1959

Lviv Television, 1959.

In the video: flax harvesting, women in the field, flax processing equipment, collective farm, bundles of flax fiber, flax processing equipment, flags, a truck with a portrait of Nikita Khrushchev and the inscription “We will deliver the fiber to the state by November 1”; Mine No. 2 “Novovolynska,” workers, a poster on the door, the presidium, mine management, people applauding, musicians playing the accordion, a performance by an artistic group, a play, women in dresses with flowers, miners with flowers, coal transport; an electric lamp factory, stages of production, the basics of cathode ray tubes; Lviv, filming of the movie “Oleksa Dovbush,” actors in makeup and costumes, film crew, city streets; sports competition at a swimming pool, judges evaluating the diving of young swimmers, people in the stands, awarding of winners.

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