"For Ukraine, for its Freedom": Ukrainian Sich Riflemen

Lviv State Television and Radio Company, 1997. The issue of the program "Autograph" is dedicated to the history of the creation of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, their activities and creativity, the association "artistic handful".

On the video: photos of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen; paintings by Ivan Ivanets, Leonid Perfetsky, Osyp Kurylas; coat of arms of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen; S. Ripytsky's publication "Ukrainian Sich Riflemen"; crosses of the Sich Riflemen on the Field of Mars; Viktor Morozov and VIA "Smerichka" perform the rifle and rebel song "The Steppe Wind Blowed"; the history of the creation of the song "Oh, the Red Kalina in the Meadow."

The history of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, the size of the legion, the creation of the choir and the "artistic handful" is told by Ivan Holovatsky, a professor of biochemistry and head of the Committee for Promoting National Revival under the Lviv Regional State Administration.

The host is Honored Journalist of Ukraine, art critic Vasyl Hlynchak.

The program was worked on by: Vasyl Hlynchak, Bohdan Melnyk, Tetiana Shyposh, Ivan Stasik, Yaroslav Mylianovskyi, Liubomyr Kozak, Oleksandr Khomchyk, Volodymyr Pihula, Vasyl Foremskyi, Rostyslav Bryzhak.

Reference: "Artistic Handful" — an association of artists — Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, which included, in particular, Ivan Ivanets, Leonid Perfetsky, Osyp Kurylas and other figures. Despite the attempts of the Bolshevik authorities to destroy examples of their work, part of the collection has been preserved to this day.