Scientist Mykhailo Kosach

Volyn Regional Directorate, PJSC UASTE, 2017. The film "The Ukrainian Genius of Mykhailo Kosach" tells about the scientific, ethnographic, and creative activities of the Ukrainian scientist, brother of Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Kosach.

On video: Lesya Ukrainka Museum in Kyiv; Theater Maidan in Lutsk; Christmas nativity scene; monument to Lesya Ukrainka; letter from Mykhailo Kosach to Lesya Ukrainka; photos of Mykhailo Kosach; Kolodyazhnensky Literary and Memorial Museum of Lesya Ukrainka; museum exhibits; book by Olga Kosach-Kryvyniuk "Lesya Ukrainka. Chronology of Life and Creativity"; Mykhailo Kosach's translation of "Vechornytsy" by Mykola Gogol; laying flowers at the monument to T. Shevchenko; Red Building of the T. Shevchenko Kyiv National University; letters from Lesya Ukrainka to Mykhailo Kosach; bust of Lesya Ukrainka near the building of the university; manuscript of "Forest Song"; photos of Mykhailo Kosach and his family members from different periods; poetic anthology "Ukrainian Muse"; newspaper "Zorya"; reading room of the Scientific Library of the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv; Independence Square; publication of Hrytskoy Hryhorenko — Mykhailo Kosach's wife; main building of the University; stereoscope; grave of Mykhailo Kosach.

The following people talk about Mykhailo Kosach: Iryna Shchukina, head of the Lesya Ukrainka Museum (Kyiv); Tetyana Danylyuk-Tereshchuk, head of the Lesya Ukrainka Museum of the Eastern European National University (now Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University); Alla Dyba, research associate at the Taras Shevchenko Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Serhiy Romanov, candidate of philological sciences (Lutsk); Volodymyr Shevchuk, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences (Lviv).

The following worked on the film: scientific consultant — candidate of philological sciences Larisa Miroshnychenko; screenwriter and director — Maria Andrushko; editor — Olga Kulish; director of photography — Valeriy Fetysov; assistant director of photography — Mykola Dmytruk; editing director — Anzhela Shabala; graphics by Mykola Kushniruk; sound recording in the studio by Svitlana Rybalchenko.

Reference: Mykhailo Kosach is a writer, translator, physicist, mathematician, inventor, meteorologist, brother of Lesya Ukrainka, nephew of Mykhailo Dragomanov, husband of writer Hrytska Hryhorenko (real name — Oleksandra Sudovshchikova-Kosach).