Zhytomyr Television, 2010. The village of Golovino, the final of the regional football championship.

In the video: female footballers, the stadium, the game, the award ceremony. Interviews: Daria Botvina, captain of the Korosten team (in Russian); Svitlana Shlapak, student at the Selianshchyn Sports Lyceum; Hryhorii Stashenko, head of the education department of the Chernyakhiv District State Administration; Serhii Polishchuk, head of the Chernyakhiv District State Administration. 

Soccer Championship: 2010

Zhytomyr Television, 2008, program “On Our Land.” The story is about Volodymyr Didkovsky, head of the private agricultural company “Yerchiki” and Hero of Ukraine. 

The video shows a field, a road, a village, a tractor station, combine harvesters in a field, students with Didkovsky, corn and beet harvesting, and a farm.

Interviews: Volodymyr Didkovsky, head of the agricultural company; Leonid Kelvik, head of the farm; Ivan Repa, chairman of the board of the cheese factory; Yuriy Zabel - head of the Zhytomyr Regional State Administration; Mykola Deisan - deputy head of the Zhytomyr Regional State Administration; Mykola Didkovsky - head of the Main Department of Agricultural Development; Yuriy Protsenko - head of the Popilnyanskyi District Administration; Mykola Rudchenko - People's Deputy of Ukraine; Mykola Onyshchuk - Minister of Justice of Ukraine.

Volodymyr Didkovsky: farmer, Hero of Ukraine 

Zhytomyr Television, 2008. Program “Time of the Country,” story about the removal of Soviet symbols in Zhytomyr. 

In the video: the House of Justice, demolition of Soviet symbols, a sign reading “Caution, dangerous to walk here!” Interviews: local residents talk about their attitudes toward decommunization; Anatoliy Litnov, representative of the Main Department of Justice, talks about the building's dilapidated condition.

Decommunization in Zhytomyr: 2008

March 20, 2005, Novograd-Volynsk city, Zhytomyr region.

On the video: training of the Novograd-Volynsk separate mechanized brigade, preparation; forest, soldiers in camouflage uniforms, tank camouflage; tank training at the training ground, various plans, coordination of tankers with infantrymen and support from above, working out the training scenario.

Reference: In 2005, the 30th separate guards mechanized brigade of Novograd-Volynsk was part of the Eighth Army Corps, being part of the Joint Rapid Reaction Forces. In the same year, the brigade became the base for an experiment in contract manning and demonstrated a high level of training at the "Reaction-2005" training ground at the Zhytomyr training ground, taking first place among the corps' formations. After the changes, the brigade was named after Prince Konstantin Ostrozky (2018) and is now part of the Operational Command "North".

Novograd-Volynsk Brigade: Tank Training

Zhytomyr Television, 2008. Excerpt from a telethon dedicated to the Holodomor. Hosted by Yulia Svintsitska. Guest in the studio: Mykhailo Laputko, eyewitness to the Holodomor. He recounts his experiences. 

Eyewitness to the Holodomor, Mykhailo Laputko 

Zhytomyr Television, 2008. Excerpt from a telethon dedicated to the Holodomor. Hosted by Olga Grup. Guest in the studio: Hennadiy Makhorin, candidate of historical sciences, author and editor of a book about the Holodomor. He talks about research on this topic and historical facts. 

Telethon in memory of the victims of the Holodomor  

Zhytomyr Television, 2008. A segment from a telethon dedicated to the Holodomor.

The video shows the Korosten district: a village, streets, storks on a pole, old houses. Interviews: Maria Yakymchuk, Tetiana Vlasyuk, and Anastasia Podorozhnia—eyewitnesses of the Holodomor; Larysa Kovalchuk—head of the local history club in the village of Lisivshchyna; Kateryna Sklyarevska—deputy head of the Korosten District State Administration. 

Eyewitnesses of the Holodomor recount their experiences

Zhytomyr Television, 2008. Excerpt from a telethon dedicated to the Holodomor. 

In the studio is Larysa Kopiychenko, head of the scientific and editorial group “Rehabilitated by History.” She talks about gathering information about the Holodomor, which was obtained for the publication of a book commemorating these events. Journalist Viktoria Lukyanenko.

Book about the Holodomor

August 29, 2022, Zhytomyr.

The plot is dedicated to the requiem rally for the Day of Remembrance of the Defenders of Ukraine, who died in the struggle for independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the state, at the Smolensk Military Cemetery.

In the video: a military orchestra performs the anthem of Ukraine, servicemen and Zhytomyr residents during a minute of silence; a flash interview with relatives of the fallen servicemen who talk about the importance of Remembrance Day.

Journalist — Serhiy Kosyuchenko.

Defenders of the Fatherland Day, 2022

2008, Zhytomyr Regional Television and Radio Company. The program is dedicated to the ancient Ukrainian folk custom of Obzhynky.

In the video: screensavers, bakery products, loaf, sheaf, compositions of districts, folk festivities, dishes, drinks, songs, ceremonial procession, concert, awarding of farmers.

Comments: Head of the Main Department of the Agro-Industrial Complex of the Regional State Administration Mykola Didkivskyi; Mykola Deysan; Head of the Production and Technological Laboratory of the Olevsk Bread Plant Tetyana Novotna; Head of the Regional State Administration Yuriy Zabila; Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine: Serhiy Ryzhuk, Mykola Rudchenko and Mykola Tymoshenko; Deputy Head of the Zhytomyr Regional Council Mykhailo Dimont.

Harvest Festival "Obzhinki - 2008"

2008, Zhytomyr State Television and Radio Company. The programme ‘Yablunka znan...’ (The Apple Tree of Knowledge) is dedicated to the Brusyliv Lyceum, named after the statesman and Minister for the Protection of the Population from the Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident (1990-1994) — Heorhii Hotovchits.

The video features: opening credits, shots of the village, newsreel footage, the Brusyliv Lyceum, a commemorative plaque, classrooms, students, books by Ukrainian scientist and bishop Ivan Ohienko, and houses of resettlers from the Chernobyl zone. Comments: Volodymyr Habenets, head of the Brusyliv District Council; Halyna Kuzmenko, head of the gymnasium's educational department; Lidiia Khomenko, director of the H. Gotovchits Gymnasium.

Reference: Heorhii Oleksandrovych Gotovchits was a statesman and mechanical engineer by education. From 1990 to 1994, he headed the State Committee of Ukraine for the Protection of the Population from the Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Accident, which later became the basis for the Ministry of Civil Protection.

Lyceum named after Georgy Gotovchits

2008, Zhytomyr State Television and Radio Company. A programme from the series ‘Your Cities, Zhytomyr Region’ dedicated to the history of the city of Berdychiv.

In the video: opening credits, stand-up journalist, footage of the city, buildings, architecture, the Church and Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites, a commemorative plaque to the writer Honoré de Balzac, the Jewish cemetery, the Berdychiv Machine-Building Plant ‘Progress’, the brewery, archival images, footage from films and cartoons.

Author: Tetiana Karpyuk.