The 150th Anniversary of Markiyan Shashkevych’s Birth and Other Chronicles: 1961

Lviv Television, 1961.

In the video: a scene from the auditorium, a meeting, the presentation of certificates and badges, Pioneers singing on stage; November 6, 1961, the 150th anniversary of Markiyan Shashkevych’s birth, the writer’s grave at Lychakiv Cemetery, a memorial service, with speeches delivered by: poet R. Bratun, Fedir Neboryachok, head of the Department of Ukrainian Literature, poet Vasyl Hlynchak, and composer Anatoliy Kos-Anatolskyi; equestrian competitions, the racetrack, people cheering, participants being greeted with flowers; the stadium, the “Lviv vs. Sweden” soccer match, the stands, spectators; the anniversary celebration of writer Vasyl Lozovyi (Mykhailo Khodakivskyi), with appearances by poet Rostyslav Bratun, Doctor of Philology Mykola Matviychuk, and greetings from writer Iryna Wilde, Dmytro Tsmokalenko, and poet Vasyl Kolodiy; a peace and friendship relay between the USSR and Czechoslovakia; a sign reading “Lviv Machine-Building Plant,” product blueprints, a workshop, workers at their machines, signs reading “Made in the USSR,” “Export,” “Cuba,” “Havana”; the Lvivsilmash Plant’s Palace of Culture; Pekarska Street, the medical institute building, Dr. Oleksiy Troshkov walking, doctors in Professor Mykhailo Kamaev’s office, a patient, the Indian Bhan Murti, a patient examination, an operating room, surgery, surgical instruments, Stryi Park: Bhan Murti and Dr. Troshkov taking a walk.

Contains Soviet symbols and propaganda.

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