All-Union Television Film Festival

Dates: 1966-1993
Place: USSR
The All-Union Television Film Festival is a television film competition held in the USSR since 1966. The festival is also abbreviated as the All-Union Telefestival.

I All-Union Television Film Festival (1966, Kiev)
The festival was held in Kiev from November 28 to December 10.
87 films - 29 feature films and 58 documentary television films - were presented at the festival.
The festival was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of October and was held under the motto "For the sake of art that confirms the ideas of communism".
The chairman of the jury was N. Kartsov, head of the Main Editorial Office of Literary and Dramatic Programs of the USSR Central Television, and the chairman of the organizing committee of the festival was G. Ivanov, deputy chairman of the Committee for Radio Broadcasting and Television under the USSR Council of Ministers.

II All-Union Television Film Festival (1967, Moscow)
The festival was held in Moscow from December 9 to 16.
62 televisions and 9 film studios participated in the competition, and 62 films were presented.

III All-Union Television Film Festival (1969, Leningrad)
The festival was held in Leningrad from April 10 to 18.
39 televisions and 7 film studios participated in the competition.

IV All-Union Television Film Festival (1971, Minsk)
The festival was held in Minsk in October 1971.
94 television films, including 23 feature films, were presented at the festival.
For the first time, the entire competition program of the festival was broadcast on television.

V All-Union Television Film Festival (1973, Tashkent)
The festival was held in September 1973 in Tashkent.

VI All-Union Television Film Festival (1975, Tbilisi)
The festival was held in November 1975 in Tbilisi.

VII All-Union Television Film Festival (1977, Leningrad)
The festival was held in September 1977 in Leningrad.
The festival was dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.

VIII All-Union Television Film Festival (1979, Baku)
The festival was held in November 1979 in Baku.
Feature film section:
Grand Prix: multi-part television film “Fiery Paths” (commissioned by the USSR State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, “Uzbekfilm” studio) and three-part television film “Risk Strategy” (“Ekran”)
Grand Prix for Documentary Films: documentary film “Khuraman” (Azerbaijani television)
Grand Prix for Musical Films: “Beethoven’s Life” (“Ekran”)
Special Jury Prize: “Azerbaijan is Taking Big Steps” (Azerbaijani television)

IX All-Union Television Film Festival (1981, Yerevan)
The festival was held in October 1981 in Yerevan.
“Best Film” for Children: “You Can’t Take the Island Alone with You...” (Azerbaijanfilm)

X All-Union Television Film Festival (1983, Alma-Ata)
The festival was held in Alma-Ata in 1983.

XI All-Union Television Film Festival (1985, Kiev)
The festival was held in Kiev from September 24 to October 1.
138 films, including more than 50 documentaries, participated in the competition.

XII All-Union Television Film Festival (1987, Minsk)
The festival was held in Minsk from September 7 to 20, 1987.

XIII All-Union Television Film Festival (1989, Dushanbe)
The festival was held in Dushanbe in 1989.

XIV All-Union Television Film Festival (1991, Saratov)
The festival was held in Saratov in 1991.

XV All-Union Television Film Festival (1993, Rostov-on-Don)
After the collapse of the USSR, the festival was held in Rostov-on-Don in 1993 under the name XV Open Television Film Festival.\