Lviv Television Studio, 1976. Film ‘Horizons of Zoria’.

A film about the development of the village of Zoria in the Rivne region, the ‘Zoria Komunizmu’ collective farm, the village residents, and the head of the collective farm, Volodymyr Plyutynskyi. Parts of the film ‘Housewarming,’ ‘Bread,’ ‘Formation,’ ‘A Love Story,’ ‘The Head.’

The video shows views of the village, new streets, houses, shopping centre buildings, a kindergarten, the village council, residents, collective farm fields, agricultural machinery, a cowshed, collective farm greenhouses, an orchard, and a canning factory.

The video is in Russian and contains elements of Soviet propaganda.


The film ‘Horizons of Dawn’ 

Rivne television, 1997. The video features an interview with a UPA liaison officer, nurse Lidia Romanchuk. She came to the radio program and talks about her life and her book The Road of Suffering.

Lydia Romanchuk - UPA liaison officer on the radio

Rivne television, program “Rivne-inform”, March 3, 1997. 

The video features a story about the celebration of Shevchenko's days; a meeting of representatives of the Liberal Party with journalists; the work of the Rivne Confectionery Factory; the law on weapons; the World Freestyle Championships; and a weather forecast. 

Interview: Mykola Soroka, head of the regional state administration; Valentyna Petruk, director of the confectionery factory. 

Confectionery factory and Shevchenko Days: 1997 

Rivne television, 1997. A story about the lack of funding for the Chervona Kalyna sanatorium.

The video shows the sanatorium, buildings, territory, children in the sanatorium, a doctor at a computer, patients, a bakery, a mineral water bottling plant, medical staff in the hall, greetings, Vasyl Zinkevych on stage. 

Sanatorium “Chervona Kalyna”

Rivne television, 1997. A story about a competition for transportation among taxi companies in Rivne and the regulation of their work. 

The video shows a market, a car driving, documents, a taxi stand, a train station, and the streets of the city. Interview: Ivan Oleksiuk, deputy director of the territorial and production association of motor transport. Authors: A. Syshchuk, Y. Tychynin.

Tender of carriers: taxi

Rivne television, 1997. 

A story about the fight against illegal fishing during the spawning season and the use of a helicopter for this purpose. Interview: Petro Sholodko, deputy head of the regional state fisheries inspection. Authors: P. Midrigan, A. Darmokryk. 

Fight against poachers: 1997

June 15, 2002, Rivne.

The video shows a visit by Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Semynozhenko to the Rivne Regional Clinical Hospital and the Rivne Regional Oncology Center. Hospital premises, cardiac center equipment, medical equipment, Semynozhenko and his delegation inspecting the hospital facilities, MRI and CT equipment, operating room, Semynozhenko talking to patients, hospital departments and buildings, the grand opening of the cardiovascular surgery department, ribbon cutting.

Rivne hospitals

A story about the overthrow and sale of a Lenin monument in the village of Mlyniv, Rivne region, in order to purchase a monument to Taras Shevchenko, May 29, 2006.

Comments by the head of the Mlyniv district council, Serhiy Vorobei, and politician Petro Symonenko.

Lenin was sold – Shevchenko was put up

May 6, 2002, Rivne.

In the video: main signs with the inscription “Rivne” at the entrance from the city; young men walking in the park, various trees and bushes; a woman walking among the trees; road, cars; another park, marigolds, tulips, various flowers and trees up close; cafe “Sputnik”, architecture of the city.

Spring Rivne, 2002

January 28, 2017, the city of Ostroh, Rivne region.

A plot about the Ostroh Synagogue and its restoration. Shooting from a quadcopter, snow, almost destroyed synagogue building, restoration work, ruins inside, archival photos. 

Comments: Hryhorii Arshynov, the initiator of the synagogue's restoration; Rabbi Yisrael Meir Gabai.

Background: The Ostroh Synagogue is a monument of Jewish sacred architecture in the former Jewish quarter of the city. It is an outstanding historical center of religious life for one of the largest and most influential Jewish communities in Volyn. It is a unique architectural monument of the Renaissance and Baroque periods. The synagogue's peculiarity was its defense purpose.

Ostroh synagogue 

May 30, 2017, Rivne.

A plot about a World War II bunker that was supposedly built for Reich Commissar Erich Koch. People go down into the dungeon, there is a light, walls painted by vandals, traces of flooding, the entrance to the bunker. 

Comments: tenant Serhiy Shabalin; head of the city's culture department Taras Maksymenko.

Erich Koch's bunker in Rivne

Rivne, March 28, 2008. A story about the discovery of a World War II air bomb on the territory of a residential area under construction.

Comments: Inna Ilyashchenko, a representative of the construction company, Serhiy Solonchuk, First Deputy Head of the Main Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine (GU MES) in the Rivne region, and Oleg Nikolchuk, Head of the pyrotechnics group.

Journalist — Anna Vasylenko.