Gosprom in Kharkiv: 1968

Kharkiv television studio, 1968. TV report “City Square”.

On the video: Dzerzhynskoho Square: a monument to Lenin, pioneer groups lay flowers at the monument, photojournalists; House of Soviets, restaurant “Kharkiv”; people walk, children, passers-by; harvest fair, books, horses, agricultural machinery; bicycle ride; speeches at the monument to Lenin; the building of the State Industry Committee, TV tower; snow is being cleared with shovels, machinery; monument to Vasyl Karazin, university, sign “Kharkiv State University named after A. Gorky State University”; a May 9 parade, foreigners, fireworks in the sky; poet Ihor Muratov tells about the square. Documentary chronicles: footage of the destruction of buildings in World War II, postwar reconstruction of the square.