Battle for Sevastopol: Memories of Veterans

Sevastopol Television, 1995.

The program "Sevastopol in May" is dedicated to the celebration of "Victory Day" in the city of Sevastopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea.

On the video: Malakhov Kurgan Memorial Complex, World War II veterans lay flowers at the Monument to the Unknown Soldier, light a fire; a solemn procession of veterans and families of deportees, a woman holds a poster with the inscription "Prisoners of Nazi Camps" (in Russian); National Museum of the Heroic Defense and Liberation of Sevastopol, exposition, various plans; reading of letters from Soviet fighters, fragments of front-line black-and-white chronicles; black-and-white panorama of Sevastopol, museum employees talk about the defense of Sevastopol and military campaigns in these areas during World War II; memoirs of Maria Bayda, photographs from the personal archive of a scout; interviews with veterans of World War II.

Comments: Senior Researcher of the Museum of the Heroic Defense and Liberation of Sevastopol Larisa Yurievna Smulskaya, Maria Petrovna Aposhanskaya; Researcher Lidia Pavlovna Efremova; World War II veterans: Soviet intelligence officer, sanitary instructor of the 514th Rifle Regiment of the 172nd Rifle Division Maria Bayda; Hero of the Soviet Union Stepan Neustroyev; Captain 1st Rank, retired Vasily Fesenko; participants of the 1945 parade Sergey Shevchenko and Anatoly Dubynin; Vice Admiral, Hero of the Soviet Union Volodymyr Pylypenko.

The program is voiced in russian languages.

Author and director — Iryna Katvalyuk.