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The library of the Odesa Technical Professional College of ONTU was founded in 1930. Over this time, many changes have taken place in the structure and holdings of our library. Today, the number of readers is 1,502 users. The book collection comprises 88,751 copies.
The need to move the library to modern library technologies in order to provide free access to information resources made computerisation of the library a priority task.
In 2005, the library embarked on innovative development in all areas of the college’s activity. In 2007, new “Bibliograf” software was purchased for the library. From this year, 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 efforts to open up both book holdings and specialised periodicals for information support of all categories of users.
Great attention is paid to acquiring scientific and educational literature in electronic form.
The entire library team worked with enthusiasm on creating the interiors and arranging the premises so that readers would enjoy maximum convenience and comfort. Regular visitors note that after renovation the library premises feel welcoming even on a gloomy day.
However, despite changes in the library’s design and the introduction of innovative forms of work, the main idea remains unchanged – throughout the day, to provide readers with maximum positive and useful information and to meet all their needs for textbooks and scientific literature. Serving users in the lending department and reading room is not only about issuing literature to take home or to read on site; it is a multidisciplinary subject-specific collection: textbooks, scientific literature, a large body of fiction, comfortable conditions for choosing and browsing literature, and an individual approach to serving readers. As part of the social structure of society, the library is rapidly changing in line with the demands of the time. Information technologies are actively developing, new methods and approaches to professional activity are being introduced, library processes are being automated, and the library is acquiring the features of an information centre, which significantly improves the quality of service to users.
At present, the library staff is composed as follows:
Head librarian – Biloziub Olena Ivanivna
Bibliographer – Zozulia-Kolonifa Tetiana Pavlivna
Librarians – Zakharova Valentyna Yakivna, Chekal Nadiia Stepanivna
Cultural and mass events
Holodomor. History. Post-memory” for the 102nd anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932–1933
Independence Day of Ukraine
History of the library of the Odesa Technical Professional College of ONTU from 1930 to 2025
Remember the Heroes of Kruty
Day of the Unity of Ukraine
Your Defenders, Motherland
To the Day of Defenders of Ukraine
All-Ukrainian Day of Libraries
Independence Day of Ukraine
Day of the Ukrainian Flag
Vyshyvanka as the unique code of your region
8 May – Day of Remembrance and Reconciliation
Chornobyl disaster
10 April 1944 – Day of the Liberation of Odesa, 80th anniversary
Taras Shevchenko: the Ukrainian prophet, for the 210th anniversary of the birth of Taras Shevchenko
Regulatory and legal documents for libraries
Law of Ukraine on Libraries and Library Affairs
Rules for using the library at the Odesa Technical Professional College of ONTU
Films of patriotic orientation
1. Dodomu (Home) (2019)
The story of a Crimean Tatar family – a father and his sons, one lost and one alive. A film that will not fail to touch the heart of any viewer. It raises themes that are important to every Ukrainian: not only 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, as well as the search for one’s place in the world.
The international premiere of the film took place in the Un Certain Regard programme of the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, and at the 2019 Odesa International Film Festival the film received the Grand Prix.
2. Dystopian film “Atlantida” (2019)
The dystopian film “Atlantida” by Valentyn Vasyanovych was released in 2019. There is not a single professional actor in this film. Former intelligence officer and volunteer of the charitable foundation “Return Alive” Andrii Rymaruk, paramedic Liudmyla Bileka and volunteer Vasyl Antoniak took part in the filming. The film was shot in Kyiv and Mariupol.
3. Feature film “Cyborgs” (2017)
About history, about feat, about self-sacrifice, about the homeland. This is the theme of the feature film directed by Akhtem Seitablaiev, which was released in cinemas back in 2017. The film tells of volunteers and soldiers who defended Donetsk Airport for 242 days in September 2014. The Ukrainian defenders were nicknamed “cyborgs” by the occupiers for their courage and bravery. This word became the title of the film. The screenplay was written on the basis of testimonies from Ukrainian soldiers who defended Donetsk Airport.
4. Donbas (2018)
This tragicomedy by Sergei Loznitsa won the Un Certain Regard prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival for Best Director.
It is a mosaic of stories about 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 have no insignia and pass themselves off as Donetsk militiamen.
5. “Cherkasy” – the first feature film about the Ukrainian Navy (2019)
“Cherkasy” is the first feature film about the Ukrainian Navy. 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 village lads from a village in Chernihiv Region, Mykhailo and Lev. The former serves as a sailor on the Ukrainian Navy minesweeper U311 “Cherkasy”, which is based at Lake Donuzlav in Crimea. In summer 2013, Mykhailo, while on leave in his native village, invites his friend, who has become an orphan, to join the service. Lev does not agree straight away, but eventually does. After the events on Maidan Nezalezhnosti, “Cherkasy” found itself blocked by sunken other boats. Our ships one after another switch to the enemy’s side, but not “Cherkasy”. The entire crew stands in defence of its honour and of its Homeland against the enemy.
The consultant on the film was the real commander of the minesweeper “Cherkasy”, Yurii Fedash, and the cast included sailors who held the defence of the ship in spring 2014. Filming began in April 2017 and took place in Ochakiv, Odesa and a small village in Chernihiv Region.
6. Black Raven (2019)
This is an adaptation of Vasyl Shkliar’s novel “Zalishenets”, which was supported by Yurii Andrukhovych. The story portrays one of the most dramatic and least discussed pages of Ukrainian history – the fierce struggle of Ukrainian insurgents against the occupying communist authorities in the 1920s, after the occupation of the UNR, in the Cold Yar.
Although critics note that the acting was overly pathetic, the plot of the film is genuinely interesting.
7. The Guide (Povodyr) (2014)
A historical drama film directed and written by Oles Sanin, whose plot is based on the wanderings through Soviet Ukraine of an American boy and a Ukrainian blind musician on the eve and during the Holodomor.
The son of an American engineer is forced to hide from the authorities after his father is murdered. He is helped by a former company commander of the UNR army 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 major events of the winter of 2013–2014, which forever changed the history of the Ukrainian people. “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 Lithuanian director Šarūnas Bartas with financial support from the State Agency for Film of Ukraine.
The plot centres on a young Lithuanian, Rokas, who unexpectedly gets the chance to visit Ukraine to deliver humanitarian aid from Lithuania. He will be able to see for himself and understand the real occupation and war. But during the journey circumstances change, and Rokas is forced to go further and further into Donbas, where fate brings him together with two military journalists. One of them is played by the famous French actress Vanessa Paradis. The trio is forced to overcome their psychological boundaries and build strong relationships. They do not agree on anything except their desire to be where they are, though each has their own reasons for it. And here Rokas finds his true love.
10. Satirical comedy “Our Kitties” (2020)
This Ukrainian politically incorrect patriotic comedy directed by Volodymyr Tykhyi became a box-office record in Ukrainian cinema. The film about the war in Donbas was shown in 219 cinemas across Ukraine, which was the highest viewing figure ever for a Ukrainian film.
The events of the film unfold in 2014 at the beginning of the war. It is a tragicomic story of the adventures of ATO fighters that happen to them during combat duty at the “most remote” of all possible positions on the front line. The film is based on real accounts of soldiers from 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 war as volunteers. A journalist carrying out a secret assignment joins them at their position. None of them has combat experience, knows how to navigate the terrain, or knows anything about the intentions of the command. They were given what there was, and back then there was not much, compared with the enemy “neighbours”, armed to the teeth. War is far from a fun pastime, but there was still something to laugh at back then – for example, how these volunteers, who had taken up weapons for the first time, became the cause of a grand fiasco for the enemy’s large-scale operation.
11. Short film “Out of Zone” (2018)
When we hear “the subscriber is out of coverage area” through the receiver, it always causes anxiety. What does a mother feel whose son is in a war zone, if she hears this phrase every time?
This is exactly what the Ukrainian short film “Out of Zone” by Nikon Romanchenko is about. It is the story of Liuba, a woman who works at a confectionery factory. After her son stops answering calls, she decides to set out to search for him herself in unfamiliar territory.
The war here is almost invisible. But it is conveyed through the unknown and through that very phrase. The film received a special jury award at the “Molodist” festival in 2018. This year Nikon Romanchenko won the award for “Best Director” with the 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, known as the “Holodomor”. As Stalin pushes the ambitions of the communists in the Kremlin, young artist Yurii fights to save his beloved Natalka from the Holodomor, which ultimately claimed the lives of millions of Ukrainians.
The events unfold in Western Ukraine during the Holodomor of 1932–1933. The film’s main character, Yurii, lives an ordinary life. He is in love with Natalka and dreams of creating a strong family with her. But his dreams were not destined to come true. The inhuman Soviet regime engineers a famine. The population in the villages is on 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, with the aim of overcoming the merciless system.
13. “Zakhar Berkut” (2019)
Historical action film
This is an adaptation of the eponymous work by Ivan Franko, which was published in 1883. “1241. The Mongol horde led by Khan Burunda is moving west, destroying everything in its path. Reaching the high Carpathian Mountains, the army halts at their foot. However, at night several local hunters, the Berkut brothers, secretly make their way into the camp and free the prisoners. Enraged, the khan decides to go straight ahead in order to take revenge and destroy the Carpathian settlements. To do this, he finds a traitor among the locals who opens a secret pass in the mountains for him. However, a small community of mountain hunters led by Zakhar Berkut has its own plan to stop the numerous enemy once and for all,” the description of the film says.
Directors: Akhtem Seitablaiev and John Winn. Starring Alex McNicoll, Robert Patrick, Poppy Drayton, Tommy Flanagan, Andrii Isaienko, Tsegmid Tserenbold, Oleg Voloshchenko, Rocky Myers, Alina Kovalenko, Viktor Zhdanov.
14. “Forbidden” (2019)
Biographical drama, thriller
Set against the broad backdrop of the struggle of Ukrainian dissidents of the late 1960s to early 1980s, the film tells of the life and mysterious death of the famous poet of the Sixties generation, human rights defender and Hero of Ukraine – Vasyl Stus.
Director: Roman Brovko. Starring Dmytro Yaroshenko, Diana Rozovlian, Yevgenia Hladii, Oleh Maslennikov, Vitalii Salii, Karyna Shereverova.
15. “The Earth Is Blue as an Orange” (2020)
Documentary film
The film tells of a family living in the so-called “red zone” of Donbas, where military action has been going on for the sixth year. Everyday life for civilians in the front-line area has changed radically. 36-year-old Hanna raises four children on her own. Shelling in Krasnohorivka, where the heroes of the film live, does not stop. But despite all the difficulties, this family is very friendly and cheerful. Mum and the children have hobbies, play musical instruments and, most interestingly, film their own movies about their life during the war.
Director: Iryna Tsylyk.
16. “Prayer for Hetman Mazepa” (2001)
Drama
The plot is based on a “knife-edge” dialogue between historical antagonists – Peter I, who desecrates Ivan’s sarcophagus, and Hetman Ivan, who rises from the grave to recount his life, above all the part related to the struggle between the two rulers. This was the first full-length, big-budget film of independent Ukraine.
Director: Yurii Illienko. Starring Bohdan Stupka and Liudmyla Yefymenko.
17. “Stronger Than Weapons” (2017)
Documentary
This is an extensive canvas of the dramatic events of the Ukrainian Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war – from the spontaneous attempt to seize the building of the presidential administration on 1 December 2013 to the bloody battles in the ruins of Donetsk Airport in autumn 2014. The film contains not a single false or staged shot: it resembles a blend in which the showing of dramatic events flows into reflection on the ways of creating a new society, and the artistic experience of the captured documentary reality is more powerful and influential for the viewer than feature cinema.
Directors: Volodymyr Tykhyi, Yulia 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 this 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 use every possible means to make this happen. After some time in the USSR, Gareth met another journalist named Ada Brooks. She opened his eyes to the world that is considered a Soviet utopia – constant repression, murders, censorship and the Holodomor. Then Gareth takes the most dangerous step of his life – he writes an article about the tragedy of the Ukrainian people, which exposes the Stalinist regime,” the description of the film says.
Director: Agnieszka Holland. Starring James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard.
19. “Red” (2017)
Historical action film
An adaptation of the novel of the same name by Andrii Kokotiukha. The events of the film take place in 1947. Two Ukrainians – Danylo Chervonyi and Viktor Hurov – end up in a GULAG camp. Their destinies are completely different: one was previously 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 concept of patriotism is not particularly close. But fate brings such people together. Even though they have different ideals, they are united not only by a common misfortune, but also by the country where they were born – the Homeland. When the men understand this, they decide that to survive in hard labour they need to help each other and stand together against all hardships. The harsh camp commander, Major Abramov, wants to destroy all the “Banderites” and will stop at nothing. Then Danylo Chervonyi leads a revolt in the GULAG, which turns into a real uprising. The convicts have almost no chance of success, but they have an irrepressible desire to change their lives and to stop going through all the circles of hell every 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 Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti in the winter of 2013–2014, provoked by the violent dispersal of a peaceful student demonstration by the special-purpose police unit “Berkut”, which led to the overthrow of the regime of President Viktor Yanukovych. Yevhen Afineevskyi and his team interviewed protesters, activists, medical workers, artists and representatives of the clergy, representatives of the church and even artists of 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. "Unbroken"
Who among our compatriots does not know about Roman Shukhevych, whose exploits were made for the good of the Homeland? His sharp and blunt, yet accurate decisions were often criticised, but the truth lies in one thing: the man heroically resisted both the German and the Soviet occupiers as best he could, and did so with remarkable effectiveness. It is therefore not surprising that this film was made in his honour, which the audience received warmly and found worthy of viewing. For you, the native language and the wonderful acting of our actors. Enjoy the film!
22. "Black Council"
A Ukrainian historical film based on the novel “Black Council” by the Ukrainian writer Panteleimon Kulish.
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