Dictionary Day in Ukraine

News of the Week, 2003. The news story dedicated to the Dictionary Day in Ukraine highlights the history of the first dictionary, the development of the modern Ukrainian language, in particular, the changes introduced in the 20th century, and proposals for updating Ukrainian orthography.

On the video: "Slovene-Russian Lexicon" by Pamvo Berinda; Lavra Museum of Books; engraving depicting Pamvo Berinda; image of the original appearance of the Lavra Printing House; printing press; pages of old prints; stand-up by journalist Olga Kashpor; museum tour; title page of the publication "Beginnings of Book Printing in the Lands of Ukraine"; "Great Explanatory Dictionary"; volumes of the "New Explanatory Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language"; archive newsreel of the 12th Congress of Soviets; publication of "Ukrainian Spelling"; pages of a spelling dictionary; sign in the bookstore "Azbuka-klasika" (written in russian); linguistic dictionaries.

Commentators: Ukrainian linguist, Doctor of Philological Sciences Oleksandr Ponomariv; Professor, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Head of the Department of Ukrainian Language Culture at the M. Dragomanov National University Svitlana Shevchuk; Ukrainian writer, journalist Nataliya Okolitenko.

Olga Kashpor, Dmytro Melnyk, and Kostyantyn Golubchyk worked on the plot.