Vyacheslav Chornovil: politician, dissident, Hero of Ukraine

National Television and Radio Company of Ukraine, 2003.

The episode of the program "Heroes of Ukraine" is dedicated to the Ukrainian politician and publicist Vyacheslav Chornovil.

On the video: biography of Vyacheslav Chornovil, photos from the family archive; interview with Vyacheslav Chornovil's wife Athena Pashko; photos and newsreels: Kyiv in the 1960s (streets, Khreshchatyk, Kyiv Hydroelectric Power Plant, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Square); Chornovil's speeches at rallies in 1990, in the Verkhovna Rada, at meetings of the People's Movement of Ukraine, press conferences; laying flowers at his workplace in the session hall.

Reference: Vyacheslav Chornovil is a Ukrainian politician, publicist, dissident and political prisoner of the USSR. Founder of the underground magazine "Ukrainian Herald", member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, initiator of the creation of the People's Movement of Ukraine, its long-time chairman. He was a presidential candidate in the 1991 elections, was elected as a People's Deputy of Ukraine three times. Died in a car accident in 1999.