Kharkiv Chronicle: 1978

Kharkiv, Kharkiv Television Studio, 1978. Newsreel footage from April 24, June 8–July 4.

Featured in the video: a fashion show of the summer collection by the Kharkiv Fashion House; the presentation of a diploma from the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions to the “Konditsioner” factory; a city tour for participants in the republican party and economic leadership conference; delegates to the 18th Komsomol Congress laying flowers at the Lenin monument; soccer matches: “Metalist” vs. “Shakhtar,” “Metalist” vs. “Kryvbas,” and “Lokomotiv” (Vinnytsia) vs. “Metalist” (Kharkiv); a gathering of electrical engineering industry workers and a meeting of railway workers; the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic’s model car racing championship and model airplane competitions; a meeting of secretaries of primary and shop-floor party organizations in Kharkiv; events marking the 60th anniversary of Lenin’s decree on the organization of archival work; an exhibition of works by Galina Nesterovskaya and Leonid Pysarenko; production materials and a press review; an archival exhibition of documents; an exhibition in memory of landscape painter Mykola Slipchenko; a meeting of delegates to the All-Union Congress of Teachers; the graduation ceremony for the class of officers from the Petrovsky Kharkiv Fire and Technical School.