OPENING OF THE FIRST CINEMA IN UKRAINE (1908)
After its first appearance at the end of the 19th century, cinema soon gained the popularity and turned into the favourite art for the overwhelming majority of people around the world. At the beginning of the 20th century the famous Lumiere brothers' invention appeared in Ukraine. It is known that the first stationary cinema appeared in Kharkiv and became the first one not only in Ukraine but also on the territory of the whole Russian Empire.
That cinema was the famous "Bommer." The founders of the firm were two French men, Bommer brothers, and they had their head office in Rostov. At the beginning of the 20th century they decided to open a cinema in Kharkiv, moreover, it was to appear not on the hired premises but in their own building. So s
