Ukrainian Independence Music
Chervona ruta / Червона рута (1971)
Written by Volodymyr Ivasyuk in 1970, this song of Ukrainian cultural identity became an unofficial anthem of national cultural revival.
Taras Petrynenko. Ukraina / Україна (1989)
Filmed at the first Chervona Ruta festival in Chernivtsi, 1989, when music and politics became inseparable amid heavy KGB surveillance.
Ukrainian National Anthem - Ще не вмерла Україна
Pavlo Chubynsky's 1862 poem, set to music by Verbytsky, re-emerged dramatically at Chervona Ruta and at Kravchuk's 1991 presidential inauguration.