Nikita Khrushchev and Other Chronicles: 1961

Lviv Television, 1961.

In the video: a wedding in the Bibrivsky District; musicians playing the bayan and accordion; girls in wreaths and embroidered blouses dancing; the bride and groom walking through the streets of the village; celebrations; a crowd of guests; refreshments; the bride in traditional attire; guests from Canada, Freedom Avenue, Canadians boarding buses, arriving at the collective farm, an official reception, a tour of the farm; May 22, 1961, the ceremonial planting of a Shevchenko willow sapling in Stryi Park to mark the 100th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s reburial; anniversary of sculptor Ivan Severy, a photography exhibition; Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to Lviv, the train station, the train’s arrival, a large delegation escorts Khrushchev through the station, he boards the train, the train departs; a poster reading “In anticipation of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, a Day of Soviet Fine Arts is being held,” workers viewing works of Soviet fine art; the completion of construction of the Yuri Gagarin Palace of Culture of the Lviv Interregional Department of Vocational and Technical Education; Lychakiv Cemetery, the graves of writers Oleksandr Havryliuk and Stepan Tudor.

Contains Soviet symbols and propaganda.

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