Volyn region, Lutsk district, Tsumanska community, Yakivtsi village, 1996. 

The video shows a program about a traditional Christmas play about King Herod, traditions, and a nativity scene. 

King Herod: a Christmas play

Lutsk, Volyn Academic Regional Puppet Theater, 1993. 

A report on the first International Festival “Christmas Mystery” with the participation of puppet theater groups from France, Spain, Germany, Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine. 

The video shows an exhibition and sale of folk art products, excerpts from performances. Interview: Volodymyr Vynnychuk, head of the department at the Volyn Center for Folk Art; Svitlana Lesyk, owner of the Kraina Khata salon-gallery; Serhiy Yefremov, stage director (Kyiv); Iryna Uvarova, stage designer (Kyiv); Danylo Postaruk, director of the Volyn Academic Regional Puppet Theater. 

Written by Hanna Khariv, cinematography by Omelyan Ivanyuk.

Christmas Mystery Festival

Volyn, Turia district, 1994. 

The video features the program “Merry Christmas”: the traditions of celebrating Christmas - 12 dishes on the table, didukh at the penance, calling frost and winds for dinner, sowing poppies in the yard, inviting the souls of deceased ancestors to a holy dinner; carolers, the folk ensemble “Narodna Krynytsia,” directed by Olha Antoniuk. 

The program was produced by Vyacheslav Veselak, cameraman, Vitaliy Klymchuk, editor, and Petro Klekotsiuk, consultant. 

Christmas traditions

Lutsk, 1994.

The video shows working footage from the recording of a concert of the Volyn Folk Choir, performing carols, congratulating on the holidays, and the choir's performance at the Holy Trinity Cathedral. 

Volyn folk choir: carols

Lutsk, 1995. The video shows a report from a press conference by the head of the regional council, Borys Klimchuk. He talks about the foreign economic activity of the state and regions, as well as preparations for large-scale “people's” privatization in Ukraine. 

Cameramen: Igor Shchur, Marko Kleinerman.

Chairman of the Regional Council on privatization: 1995 

Volyn television, editorial office of literary and artistic programmes, 1994. The programme ‘I lived and suffered in Ukraine’ is dedicated to the work of Ukrainian writer, film director and artist Oleksandr Dovzhenko.

Liudmyla Chernetsova, Volodymyr Klymenko, Oleksandr Maryshchuk, Halyna Yankovska, Anzhela Shabala, and Oleh Kysyliuk created the programme.

The material contains fragments from the films.

Film director Oleksandr Dovzhenko

The Victory Day parade in Lutsk, 9 May 1996. 

The video shows tankers, soldiers, a solemn procession, an orchestra playing, flowers being laid at the memorial, and veterans talking about their lives.

Parade in Lutsk: celebrating Victory Day

Lutsk, a program of the TV series “We Chose You”. Volodymyr Bondar, People's Deputy of Ukraine, is in the studio. The conversation is about the results of the presidential election. 

The program was produced by: author Olha Bodenkova, editors Olha Kulish and Viktor Trofymchuk, director Iryna Puhach, studio cameramen Serhiy Danyliuk and Valeriy Fetysov, video engineer Halyna Fetysova, sound engineer Viktor Korolyuk, production editor Olha Kalishchuk, computer support Olena Burlakova, artist Larysa Zeiko. 

Election results: 2004 

Lutsk, the program “Actual Report”. This is a meeting of the 14th extraordinary session of the Volyn Regional Council. There is one issue on the agenda: the socio-political situation in Lutsk and the country after the second round of presidential elections. 

Speakers: Volodymyr Karpuk, deputy of the regional council, Fedir Koshel, deputy of the regional council, Volodymyr Bondar, MP of Ukraine, Volodymyr Banada, deputy of the regional council. 

The program was prepared by: journalist Natalia Kushniruk, cameramen Vasyl Maryshchuk and Petro Potievsky, editor Maria Andrushko, video engineer Kyrylo Yatsenko-Zhuk. 

The situation after the elections: 2004

November 23, 2004, Lutsk. Rallies in support of presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko.

On the video: rallies on the square with orange symbols, city streets, transport, a street near the Lutsk Council building.

Rally for Yushchenko in Lutsk

The program “Wind of Travels,” Volyn television, 2005. A trip of young Volyn residents from the association “Special Child” to the Mediterranean Sea. The participants were Natalia Klymchuk, president of the Special Child Association, Mykola Lishchuk, Mykhailo Klymchuk, Maria Kovaleva, and Daria Taroieva.

The program was created by Lyudmyla Chernetsova, Serhiy Danyliuk, Mykola Hensetskyi, Oleksandr Chepura, Yuriy Rayevych, and Eduard Komm. It used amateur filming.

The journey of Volynians to the Mediterranean Sea

Kovel district, the village of Holоby. The video shows a regional sports festival dedicated to the 500th anniversary of the Cossacks in Ukraine. Teams from all districts of the Volyn region took part in the competition. 

Interview: Anatoliy Klish, chairman of the regional council of the Kolos sports association, and Borys Klimchuk, chairman of the regional council of deputies.

The program was prepared by: Roman Zhyzhara, Oleksandr Maryshchuk, Oleksandr Pyrozhko, Oleh Kysylyuk, Serhiy Rudynets. 