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- Cultural and mass events
- Holodomor. History. Post-memory” on the 102nd anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932–1933
- Independence Day of Ukraine
- History of the library of the OTPC ONTU from 1930 to 2025
- Remember the heroes of Kruty
- Day of Ukrainian Unity (Sobornist)
- Your defenders, Motherland
- For the Day of Defenders of Ukraine
- All-Ukrainian Library Day
- Independence Day of Ukraine
- Ukrainian Flag Day
- The vyshyvanka as the unique code of your native land
- 8 May, Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation
- The Chornobyl disaster
- 10 April 1944: Day of the Liberation of Odesa, 80th anniversary
- Taras Shevchenko: the Ukrainian prophet, on the 210th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birth
- Regulatory and legal documents for libraries
- Patriotic films
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Information about the library
The library of the OTPC ONTU was founded in 1930. Over that time, many changes have taken place in the structure and holdings of our library. At present the library has 1,502 registered users, and its book collection stands at 88,751 copies.
The need for the library to move to the latest library technologies, in order to ensure free access to information resources, set it the task of computerisation.
In 2005 the library set a course for innovative development in all areas of our college’s activity. In 2007 new software, “Bibliograf”, was purchased for the library. From that year the computerisation of the library became an organic part of the comprehensive automation of the college as a whole. The library was additionally allocated computers, and a server was installed.
The electronic catalogue is the first result of the effort to open up the holdings, both of books and of specialist periodicals, for the information support of all categories of users.
Much attention is paid to acquiring scientific and educational literature on electronic media.
The entire library team worked with enthusiasm on creating the interiors and furnishing the premises, so that readers would have maximum convenience and comfort. Regular visitors note that, after the renovation, the library premises are welcoming even on a gloomy day.
However, despite the changes in the library’s design and the introduction of innovative forms of work, the main idea remains unchanged – to give readers the maximum amount of positive and useful information throughout the day and to meet all their needs for educational and scientific literature. This is because serving users at the lending desk and in the reading room is not only a matter of issuing literature for home use and in the room; it means a multi-profile subject collection: textbooks, scientific literature and a large body of fiction; comfortable conditions for choosing and browsing literature; and an individual approach to serving readers. After all, as part of the social structure of society, the library is changing rapidly in line with the demands of the times. Information technologies are developing actively, new methods and ways of professional work are being introduced, library processes are being automated, and the library is acquiring the features of an information centre, as a result of which the quality of service for users is improving significantly.
At present the library has the following staff:
- Head – Bilozub Olena Ivanivna
- Bibliographer – Zozulia-Kolonifa Tetiana Pavlivna
- Librarians – Zakharova Valentyna Yakivna, Chekal Nadiia Stepanivna
Cultural and mass events
Holodomor. History. Post-memory” on the 102nd anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932–1933
Independence Day of Ukraine
History of the library of the OTPC ONTU from 1930 to 2025
Remember the heroes of Kruty
Day of Ukrainian Unity (Sobornist)
Your defenders, Motherland
For the Day of Defenders of Ukraine
All-Ukrainian Library Day
Independence Day of Ukraine
Ukrainian Flag Day
The vyshyvanka as the unique code of your native land
8 May, Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation
The Chornobyl disaster
10 April 1944: Day of the Liberation of Odesa, 80th anniversary
Taras Shevchenko: the Ukrainian prophet, on the 210th anniversary of Taras Shevchenko’s birth
Regulatory and legal documents for libraries
Law of Ukraine on Libraries and Library Affairs
Law of Ukraine on Copyright and Related Rights
Regulations on the inventory of assets and liabilities
Patriotic films
1. Homeward (2019)
The story of a Crimean Tatar family – a father and his sons, one dead and one alive. A film that will not pass any viewer by, because it raises themes that matter to every Ukrainian. And it is not only about the war in the East, the occupation of Crimea and the fate of the Crimean Tatar people. The leitmotif of the film is the relationship between parents and children, and the search for one’s place in the world.
The film’s international premiere took place in the Un Certain Regard competition programme of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and at the 2019 Odesa International Film Festival it received the Grand Prix.
2. Dystopian film “Atlantis” (2019)
The dystopian film “Atlantis” by Valentyn Vasianovych was released in 2019. There is not a single professional actor in it. The cast includes a former intelligence officer and volunteer of the “Come Back Alive” charitable foundation, Andrii Rymaruk, paramedic Liudmyla Bileka and volunteer Vasyl Antoniak. The film was shot in Kyiv and Mariupol.
3. Feature film “Cyborgs” (2017)
About history, heroism, self-sacrifice and the homeland. This is exactly what the feature film by director Akhtem Seitablaiev, released in cinemas back in 2017, is devoted to. The film is about the volunteers and soldiers who defended Donetsk airport for 242 days in September 2014. The occupiers themselves nicknamed the Ukrainian defenders “cyborgs” for their courage and bravery. That word became the title of the film. The screenplay was written on the basis of testimonies of Ukrainian soldiers who defended Donetsk airport.
4. Donbass (2018)
This tragicomedy by Sergei Loznitsa won the prize for Best Director in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.
It is a mosaic of stories of people living in Donbas. Each of them is both tragic and comic at the same time. The film recreates real events that took place in the occupied territories in eastern Ukraine. In one scene, a German journalist and a Ukrainian cameraman meet Russian soldiers who wear no insignia and pass themselves off as Donetsk militiamen.
5. “Cherkasy” – the first feature film about the Naval Forces of Ukraine (2019)
“Cherkasy” is the first feature film about the Naval Forces of Ukraine. The film is based on real events and tells the story of the crew of the Ukrainian minesweeper “Cherkasy”, which in 2014 became the only one of 13 ships to keep the Ukrainian flag flying on its mast on Lake Donuzlav during the annexation of Crimea.
The main characters of the film are ordinary country lads, Myshko and Lev, from a village in the Chernihiv region. The former serves as a sailor on the Ukrainian Navy minesweeper U311 “Cherkasy”, based at the naval base on Lake Donuzlav in Crimea. In summer 2013, while on leave in his home village, Myshko suggests to his friend, who has been orphaned, that he enlist. Lev agrees, though not at once. After the events on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti, “Cherkasy” found itself blockaded by other vessels that had been sunk. Our ships went over to the enemy one after another, but not “Cherkasy”. The entire crew stands up in defence of its honour and in defence of its Homeland against the enemy.
The consultant for the film was the real commander of the minesweeper “Cherkasy”, Yurii Fedash, and the cast included sailors who held the defence on the ship in spring 2014. Filming began in April 2017 and took place in Ochakiv, Odesa and a small village in the Chernihiv region.
6. Black Raven (2019)
This is a screen adaptation of Vasyl Shkliar’s novel “The Last Man Standing” (“Zalyshenets”), with the help of Yurii Andrukhovych. The story tells of one of the most dramatic and most suppressed pages of Ukrainian history – the fierce struggle of Ukrainian insurgents against the occupying communist authorities in the 1920s, after the occupation of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, in Kholodnyi Yar.
Although critics note that the actors’ performances were too pompous, the plot of the film is genuinely interesting.
7. The Guide (2014)
A historical drama by director and screenwriter Oles Sanin, whose plot is based on the wanderings through Soviet Ukraine of an American boy and a blind Ukrainian musician on the eve of and during the Holodomor.
The son of an American engineer is forced to hide from the authorities after his father’s murder. He is helped by a former company commander of the army of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, who went blind after a head wound. The two try to survive in a harsh world. But will they succeed?
8. Winter on Fire (2015)
This is the first film about Ukraine to appear on Netflix. It brings together all the main events of the winter of 2013–2014 that changed the history of the Ukrainian people for ever. “Winter on Fire” documents the struggle of Ukrainian protesters who stood their ground despite bloodshed, despair and harsh conditions.
9. Drama “Frost” (2019)
“Frost” is a Lithuanian-French-Ukrainian-Polish war drama of 2017 about the war in Donbas. The film was directed by the Lithuanian director Šarūnas Bartas with financial support from the State Agency of Ukraine for Cinema.
The story centres on a young Lithuanian, Rokas, who gets an unexpected opportunity to go to Ukraine to deliver humanitarian aid from Lithuania. He is able to see and understand the real occupation and war with his own eyes. But during the journey circumstances change, and Rokas is forced to travel further and further into Donbas, where fate brings him together with two war journalists. One of them is played by the well-known French actress Vanessa Paradis. The trio are forced to overcome their psychological limits and build strong relationships. They agree on nothing except their desire to be where they are, but each has their own reasons for it. And here Rokas finds his true love.
10. Satirical comedy “Our Cats” (2020)
This politically incorrect Ukrainian patriotic comedy by director Volodymyr Tykhyi became a record-breaker in Ukrainian cinemas. The film about the war in Donbas was shown in 219 cinemas across Ukraine, the highest attendance figure ever for a Ukrainian film.
The events of the film unfold in 2014, at the start of the war. It is a tragicomic story of the adventures of ATO fighters, which befall them while on combat duty at the “most remote” of all possible positions on the front. It is based on real accounts of fighters of volunteer battalions and the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The main characters are an engineer, an actor, a football coach and a flower seller, who go to the war as volunteers. They are joined at the position by a female journalist on a secret assignment. None of them has combat experience, knows how to find their way around the terrain, or knows anything about the command’s intentions. They were given what there was. And at that time there was not much, compared with their “neighbours”, armed to the teeth. War is far from a cheerful business, but even then there was something to laugh at – for example, at how these volunteers, taking up weapons for the first time, became the cause of a grandiose fiasco of a large-scale enemy operation.
11. Short film “Out of Range” (2018)
When we hear “the subscriber is out of range” on the phone, it always causes anxiety. And what does a mother feel whose son is in a war zone, if every time she hears this phrase on the phone?
That is exactly what the Ukrainian short film “Out of Range” by Nikon Romanchenko is about. It is the story of a woman, Liuba, who works at a confectionery factory. After her son stops getting in touch, she decides to go in search of him herself, into unfamiliar territory.
The war here is almost invisible. But it comes across through the unknown and through this very phrase. The film received a special jury mention at the 2018 Molodist festival. This year Nikon Romanchenko won the award for “Best Director” with his film “Leopolis Night” at the Odesa International Film Festival.
12. Bitter Harvest (2017)
This historical drama tells of the tragic events in Ukraine in 1932–1933 in the twentieth century, known as the “Holodomor”. While Stalin advances the ambitions of the communists in the Kremlin, the young artist Yurii fights to save his beloved Natalka from the Holodomor, which in the end killed millions of Ukrainians.
The events unfold in Western Ukraine during the Holodomor of 1932–33. The main character, Yurii, lives an ordinary life. He is in love with Natalka and dreams of starting a strong family with her. But his dreams were not destined to come true. The misanthropic Soviet regime stages a famine. The population of the villages is brought to the brink of extinction. Men in whose veins flows freedom-loving blood cannot sit with folded arms and wait for death. Resistance cells are organised, whose aim is to overcome the ruthless system.
13. “Zakhar Berkut” (2019)
Historical action film
This is a screen adaptation of the work of the same name by Ivan Franko, which was published in 1883. “The year is 1241. A Mongol horde led by Khan Burunda moves westwards, destroying everything in its path. Reaching the high Carpathian Mountains, the army halts at the foothills. However, at night several local hunters, the Berkut brothers, secretly make their way into the camp and free the prisoners. Frantic with rage, the khan decides to go straight ahead in order to take revenge and destroy the Carpathian settlements. To do so he finds a traitor among the locals, who reveals to him a secret pass in the mountains. But the small community of mountain hunters, under the leadership of Zakhar Berkut, has a plan to stop the numerous enemy for good”, says the description of the film.
Directors – Akhtem Seitablaiev and John Wynn. Starring Alex MacNicoll, Robert Patrick, Poppy Drayton, Tommy Flanagan, Andrii Isaienko, Tsegmid Tserenbold, Oleh Voloshchenko, Rocky Myers, Alina Kovalenko, Viktor Zhdanov.
14. “Forbidden” (2019)
Biographical drama, thriller
Against a broad backdrop of the struggle of Ukrainian dissidents from the late 1960s to the early 1980s, the film tells of the life and mysterious death of the well-known poet of the Sixtiers generation, human rights defender and Hero of Ukraine, Vasyl Stus.
Director – Roman Brovko. Starring Dmytro Yaroshenko, Diana Rozovlian, Yevheniia Hladii, Oleh Maslennikov, Vitalii Salii, Karyna Shereverova.
15. “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange” (2020)
Documentary film
The film is about a family living in the so-called “red zone” of Donbas, where hostilities have been going on for the sixth year. Everyday life for civilians in the frontline zone has changed fundamentally. Hanna, aged 36, is raising four children on her own. The shelling in Krasnohorivka, where the film’s heroes live, does not stop. But despite all the difficulties, this family is very close-knit and full of life. The mother and children have hobbies, play musical instruments and, most interestingly, make films on their own about their life during the war.
Director – Iryna Tsilyk.
16. “Prayer for Hetman Mazepa” (2001)
Drama
The plot is built around a dialogue “at daggers drawn” between historical antagonists – Peter I, who desecrates Ivan’s sarcophagus, and Hetman Ivan, who rises from the grave to tell the story of his life, above all the part connected with the struggle between the two rulers. This is the first full-length, big-budget film of independent Ukraine.
Director – Yurii Illienko. Starring Bohdan Stupka, Liudmyla Yefymenko.
17. “Stronger Than a Weapon” (2017)
Documentary
This is a sweeping canvas of the dramatic events of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war – from the spontaneous attempt to storm the building of the Presidential Administration on 1 December 2013 to the bloody battles in the ruins of Donetsk airport in autumn 2014. There is not a single false or staged shot in the film: it resembles an alloy in which the depiction of dramatic events flows into reflection on the ways of building a new society, and the artistic experience of the recorded documentary reality is, for the viewer, more powerful and more impactful than feature cinema.
Directors – Volodymyr Tykhyi, Yuliia Mykolaivna Hontaruk, Roman Liubyi.
18. “The Price of Truth” (2019)
Historical thriller
“The Welsh journalist Gareth Jones was always drawn to the most dangerous people on the planet. He had already interviewed Hitler himself, and now, in the 1930s, he dreams of an interview with Joseph Stalin. To this end the young man flew to Moscow and is ready to achieve this by every possible means. After spending some time in the USSR, Gareth met another journalist, named Ada Brooks. It was she who opened his eyes to the world that is regarded as a Soviet utopia – constant repressions, murders, censorship and the Holodomor. Gareth then takes the most dangerous step of his life – he writes an article about the tragedy of the Ukrainian people that exposes the Stalinist regime”, says the description of the film.
Director – Agnieszka Holland. Starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard.
19. “Chervonyi” (2017)
Historical action film
A screen adaptation of the novel of the same name by Andrii Kokotiukha. The events of the film unfold in 1947. Two Ukrainians – Danylo Chervonyi and Viktor Hurov – end up in a Gulag camp. Their fates are completely different: one was formerly a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and was born in Western Ukraine, while the other is a Soviet pilot from Eastern Ukraine, to whom the notion of patriotism is not particularly close. But fate has brought such people together. Although they have different ideals, they are united not only by a shared misfortune but also by the country where they were born – the Homeland. When the men realise this, they decide that to survive penal servitude they need to help each other and withstand all hardships together. The harsh camp commandant, Major Abramov, wants to destroy all the “Banderites” and will stop at nothing. Danylo Chervonyi then leads a revolt in the Gulag, which turns into a real uprising. The convicts have almost no chance of success, but they have an irresistible desire to change their lives and stop going through every circle of hell each day.
Director – Zaza Buadze. Starring Mykola Bereza, Oleh Shulha, Oleksandr Mavrits, Liubov Tyshchenko, Ihor Koltovskyi, Oleh Stefan, Volodymyr Shpudeiko.
20. "Winter on Fire"
The film shows the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti in Kyiv in the winter of 2013–2014, provoked by the violent dispersal of a peaceful student demonstration by the “Berkut” special-purpose police unit, which led to the overthrow of the regime of President Viktor Yanukovych. Yevhen Afineievskyi and his team interviewed protesters, activists, medical workers, artists and clergy, church representatives and even painters, representing different generations, social strata, nationalities and religions, including a 12-year-old volunteer. “Winter on Fire” documents the struggle of Ukrainian protesters who stood their ground despite bloodshed, despair and harsh conditions.
21. "Unconquered"
Which of our compatriots does not know about Roman Shukhevych and his deeds done for the good of the Homeland? Because of his own sharp and abrupt, yet apt, decisions he was often criticised, but the truth comes down to one thing – the man resisted both the German and the Soviet occupiers as heroically as he could, and did so extremely effectively. So it is no surprise that this film was made in his honour; the audience received it quite warmly and found it worth watching. For you – your native language and the superb acting of our actors. Enjoy watching!
22. "The Black Council"
A Ukrainian historical film based on the novel “The Black Council” by the Ukrainian writer Panteleimon Kulish.
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