August 23, 2011, Lutsk.

The plot is dedicated to the celebration and solemn ceremony on the occasion of the Day of the National Flag of Ukraine.

In the video: theater stage, solemn program, the flag of Europe flutters; comments of high-ranking officials; Palace of Culture, exhibition of economic, social and cultural development of Lutsk, comments of exhibition participants and foreign guests, fair.

Comments: Lutsk City Mayor Mykola Romanyuk; Chairman of the Volyn Regional State Administration Borys Klymchuk; Chairman of the Volyn Regional Council Volodymyr Voytovych.

Flag Day: Lutsk, 2011

Volyn Television, 1996. Report titled “August 24. Theater Square. Lutsk” marking the 5th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence. 

Featured in the video: the “Ukraine Through Children’s Eyes” contest, a journalist’s on-site report, an exhibition of works by students of the Lutsk Children’s Art School, works by folk artisans, performances by artistic groups, and a disco.

Interviews: Volodymyr Pyasetskyi, teacher at the Lutsk Art School; Volodymyr Vynnychuk, head of the Department of Fine and Decorative-Applied Arts at the Center for Folk Art; Iryna Syndziuk, folk artist; participants and guests of the celebration; Rostyslav Kushniruk, artistic director of the “Posvit” choir; Oleksandr Ogorodnyk, People’s Artist of Ukraine; Yukhim Kotlyarevsky, artist at the Philharmonic; Serhiy Tkachuk, host at Radio “Lutsk.” 

Five Years of Independence: Lutsk

Volyn Television, 1996. The program “A Constitution for Ukraine!” about the draft constitution.

In the video: a survey of people on the street about the draft Constitution; passersby; the draft Constitution in a newspaper; a rally in support of adopting the Constitution; speakers; rally participants; Rostyslav Chap’yuk, a member of the Ukrainian Parliament, heading to the TV studio. 

Part of the interview is in russian.

The Constitution: A Survey in Lutsk

Volyn Television, 1994. The program “Elections in Volyn” covers the third round of elections to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. 

In the video: a polling station, people voting, an excerpt from Levko Lukyanenko’s pre-election debate on November 17, 1994, the city, passersby, a bulletin board, and excerpts from speeches by Leonid Kravchuk and Vyacheslav Chornovil. Interview: Fedir Lutzyk, chair of the district election commission for the Lutsk–Central Electoral District No. 65. 

Elections in Volyn: 1994

Volyn Television, 1997. The video shows a thunderstorm in Lutsk: footage shot from a car, the thunderstorm, rain, the road, cars, children in the rain near the “Dolphins” fountain on Teatralna Square, a summer café, furniture in the water, fallen trees, and a tree blocking the road.

Thunderstorm in Lutsk: 1997

Volyn Television, 1996. The video features the Volyn Regional Music and Drama Theater in a concert titled “Mykola Svidyuk Sings.” 

Performing the songs: “My Little Daughter,” “My Native Odessa, Mother,” “Everything’s Okay in Odessa,” “I Love, I Laugh, and I Grieve…,” “Come Back, I’m Waiting,” “Willow Path,” “Yellow Leaves,” “This Spring Is for You,” “The Almighty Has Granted Me Mercy,” “Flower of Happiness,” “Song About a Son,” “Ataman of the Carpathians,” “Star, My Little Star,” “Steamships Sail the Sea,” “Schoolyard,” “Requiem,” “Bad Weather,” “Nostalgia,” “The Colonel, Father of the Majors,” “Gilded Keys,” “My Daughter,” “My Ukraine.”

The program was produced by: Natalia Lugova, Valery Fetisov, Bogdan Goncharuk, Vasyl Maryshchuk, Zhanna Biruk, and Mykola Shabala. 

Performed by Mykola Svidyuk

Volyn Television, 1994. The third round of parliamentary elections in Ukraine in Lutsk Electoral District No. 65 and Novovolynsk Electoral District No. 68. In the video: a reporter’s stand-up, a polling station, voters casting their ballots, posters featuring candidates, and candidates appearing on Volyn Television. Commentary by F. Lutsk, chair of the district election commission for Electoral District No. 65. 

Parliamentary Elections: 1994

Volyn Television, 1994. The television documentary “Righteous People Are Not Born That Way” tells the story of people from Volyn who saved Jews during World War II. 

In the video: a delegation of Jews from Israel in Volyn; archival photos; the names of Righteous Among the Nations from Volyn engraved on a wall in Israel; Toviy Rivets playing the violin; monuments, natural landscapes, a map, statistics on the creation of Jewish ghettos, the Luga River, a house, a courtyard; old Jewish graves, a meeting with the Jewish delegation, Jews singing near the monument, crying. 

Interviews: Mykola Mykolayovych Vavrysevych, Righteous Among the Nations; residents of Volhynia whose families saved Jews; Jews who survived the war.

The film features archival footage. 

“No One Is Born Righteous”: A TV Movie

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1993.

The documentary film "Volyn Forest" explores the problem of preservation and rational use of Volyn forests.

In the video: screensavers, forest, nature, deforestation, wood processing, Volodymyr-Volyn forest complex, workshops, production, production of birch and viburnum sap, Ukrainian-Polish enterprise. Commentary by the director of the Volodymyr-Volyn forest complex, Serhiy Redko.

Volyn Forest, 1993

January 9, 2010, Lutsk.

The plot is dedicated to the fair for the presentation and sale of beekeeping products and honey.

In the video: the fair, honey makers present their products, various plans for honey, drinks and souvenirs; visitors to the fair, tasting of alcoholic beverages with honey, comments.

Comments: beekeeper-honey maker Valeriy Dyachenko; therapist Vasyl Ishchuk; head of the tasting commission Vasyl Solomka.

The following worked on the release: Oleksandra Fetysova, Vitaliy Gavrylets.

Volyn honey makers

Volyn Television, 2016. The program “The Three Pillars of Volyn Psychology” about the Faculty of Psychology at the Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European (now Volyn) National University. 

In the video: students, lecture halls, faculty members, classes with ATO participants, the “Maetok” hotel, a playground, classes with children, archival photos, a scientific conference, textbooks. 

Interviews: Kateryna Davydiuk, wife of an ATO participant; Roman Shyprykevych, ATO participant; Zhanna Virna, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology at Lesya Ukrainka National University; Myroslava Mushkevych, Head of the Department of Practical Psychology and Life Safety; Yaroslav Hoshovsky, Head of the Department of Pedagogical and Developmental Psychology; Larisa Zaseikina, Head of the Department of General and Social Psychology; Iryna Valitova, Associate Professor at the Department of Developmental Psychology, Alexander Pushkin Brest State University; Oleksandr Kocharyan, Head of the Department of Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University; Oleksandra Khlivna, Associate Professor of the Department of Practical Psychology and Life Safety at Lesya Ukrainka Eastern National University; Khrystyna Nazar, Chair of the Student Council of the Faculty of Psychology. 

Department of Psychology: 2016

Volyn Television. The program "Meeting of the Brotherhood of UPA Soldiers of Volyn" from October 14, 1992 is dedicated to the meeting with the insurgents on the Day of the Creation of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA).

On the video: comments of the members of the brotherhood, a member talks about sewing the uniform of the UPA and the USS; scene, men sing insurgent songs; conversation with insurgents, they talk about their experience in the UPA, their comrades; about the creation of the OUN, the underground organization, the experience of Soviet camps; meeting of the brotherhood of UPA soldiers of the Volyn region, reading of the charter, comments of the head of the brotherhood Meletii Semeniuk.

Comments: head of the Volyn Brotherhood of UPA Soldiers Meletii Semeniuk; members of the organization, insurgents I.O. Kacharovsky, O.Z. Kalhina, P.Ya. Sokhatsky, K.P. Bonarsky.

Journalist — Olga Kulish.