Pioneers of Ukrainian Aviation: Return from Oblivion

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1991.

The film “Silver Age. Return from Oblivion” tells about aviators, engineers and railway workers involved in the history of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (now the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”), and their scientific achievements.

On the video: landscapes of Kyiv; Yevgenia Koroleva talks about her uncle — pioneer aviator Mykhailo Yefimov; fragments of black-and-white chronicles, talks about the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and the development of aviation, about Fedor Tereshchenko — a Ukrainian aircraft designer, about Igor Sikorsky; opening of a commemorative plaque to Igor Sikorsky, photo archive of aviators; tells about Klavdiy Nemishayev and his contribution to the development of the railway in Ukraine, about the Ukrainian entrepreneur Mykhailo Tereshchenko and his contribution.

Contains materials from the Central State Archive of Ukraine, the Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Audio Documents of Ukraine and the home archive of Yevgenia Volodymyrivna Koroleva.

Commented by Ukrainian writer and aviation historian Yevgenia Koroleva.