The “Druzhba” Oil Pipeline and Other Chronicles: 1960

Lviv Television, 1960.

In the video: the short film “Signs of the New,” directed by G. Grumberg, cinematography by E. Chekh, sound by R. Saienko, edited by A. Gorokhovsky; female workers at a shoe factory at work; the “Vladimirets” sprayer; construction; the editorial office of the regional newspaper “Lvivska Pravda”; the railway station; new buildings; the Moscow-Uzhhorod Peace Relay, stopping near the Opera House in Lviv, with relay participants on motorcycles and in cars carrying flags riding down Svobody Avenue; a banner reading “Long live Soviet-Czechoslovak friendship!”, a podium, speeches by party officials; Kolos PZ-10 agricultural machinery; the Maria Zankovetska Theater; the “Druzhba” oil pipeline, start of construction; streets of Lviv, cranes, people, pipes, excavators, cars, clearing the site where the oil pipeline will run, construction; the “Lvivsilmash” plant.

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