Velykomostivska Mine No. 8 and Other Chronicles: 1961

Lviv Television, 1961.

In the video: an artistic evening featuring Zinaida Dekhtyareva; Glass Factory No. 1, glassmakers and glassblowers at work, wine glasses, vases, and decorative glass; a boarding music school, students playing the piano, living quarters, classrooms, a violin lesson; construction, workers at work, welding, glass installation; a low-voltage lamp factory, workers at work, a banner reading “To the Communist Labor Brigade”; a field, mechanized corn harvest, tractor driver Gavrylo Chalavin; Velykomostivska Mine No. 8, miners on break, a poster reading “The 22nd Congress of the CPSU—Our Labor Victories!” on the mine building; Lviv Opera House, a ceremonial meeting dedicated to the 300th anniversary of Lviv State University, Denys Lukianovych and others in the hall, the building of Lviv State University.

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.