Ostap Vyshnya — master of Ukrainian satire

Sumy Television. The December 15, 2000 issue of the “Countrymen” program is dedicated to the life and work of the poet-humorist Ostap Vyshna. Contains two parts.

On the video: the village of Hrun, Sumy region, various views; archival photographs of Ostap Vyshna; the ethnographic corner in Hrun "Ostapova krynytsia" with a Ukrainian stove, a portrait of Ostap Vyshna under an embroidered towel; the Ostap Vyshna memorial museum, books, photographs, clothes and dishes of the poet-humorist; a thematic exhibition in the Hrun village library; the burial place of the poet-humorist, a monument on the grave.

Contains fragments of black and white chronicles.

Comments: village head of the Hrun territorial community Lyudmila Pylypenko; head of the Hrun library Tetyana Sokol; deputy director of the Hrun school, linguist Valentyna Lavrynenko.

The following authors worked on the issue: Lyudmila Chugay, Olena Shevchenko, Natalia Narodnytska, Viktor Lanchenko, Valentina Zhuk.

Reference: Ostap Vyshnya (Pavlo Gubenko) is a Ukrainian writer, humorist and satirist of the 20th century. He gained popularity thanks to the creation of a new genre of "usmishka" — a type of feuilleton and humoresque, which became the basis of his work. During his life, he experienced numerous arrests and imprisonment in Soviet camps, but continued to write even in difficult conditions.