50 years of Crimea's accession to Ukraine

2004, National Television of Ukraine. The program “Prosperity in Unity” is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Crimea's accession to Ukraine.

Interview: Vice-President of the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences, Academician Ivan Kuras; Head of the Department of the Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Professor Viktor Danylenko; Head of the Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples, National Minorities and Ethnic Groups, Refat Chubarov; Head of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Serhiy Kunitsyn; Deputy Director for Research of the Institute of History of Ukraine, Stanislav Kulchytskyi; Chairman of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Mustafa Dzhemilev; editor-in-chief of the All-Ukrainian socio-political and literary newspaper “Crimean Room” Viktor Kachula; Ukrainian embroiderer, Honored Master of Folk Art of Ukraine Vira Roik; deputy director for educational work at S. Rudansky School No. 15 (Kyiv). Svitlana Regrut, deputy director of education at Rudansky School No. 15 (Yalta); Oleksandr Taryanyk, Minister of Resorts and Tourism of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

On the video: screensavers, archival black-and-white footage, footage from the history of the deportation of Crimean Tatars, Yalta and Simferopol in 1954, Khrushchev's arrival in Crimea, factory workers reading the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on the transfer of the Crimean region to the Ukrainian SSR, celebrations, Crimean leadership listens to complaints and wishes of ordinary citizens on the streets, Leonid Kuchma in Crimea, a school-gymnasium, the founding of the Crimean Svitlytsia newspaper, a story about the economy, industry, and tourism industry of Crimea.

Author: Lyudmyla Lysenko.