History of the village of Novopetrivka

Zaporizhzhya Television, 2013. The program "Day in the Village" is dedicated to the village of Novopetrivka in the Zaporizhzhia region.

In the video: the history of the village of Novopetrivka, landscapes, the sea; the Church of St. George the Victorious, the archpriest talks about the construction of the church and the times of the Cossacks; the head of the village council talks about agriculture in the village, the cow farm, working conditions; leisure in the village, a performance by the Staropetrovsky folklore group "Dzherelo", singing songs.

Comments: the rector of the Church of St. George the Victorious Archpriest Vyacheslav; the head of the Novopetrivsky village council Valentyn Smaga; the director of "Agrofirma Rossiya" Anatoly Nikolenko; the former director of the Novopetrivsky BC Lyudmila Shevchenko; the director of the library-club of the village of Novopetrivka Galina Sirmoy.

Reference: Novopetrivka is a village in Zaporizhia District, Zaporizhia Oblast, founded in 1869 as the Mennonite colony of Eichenfeld by settlers from the Khortytske colonies. The settlement suffered significant losses during the events of the Civil War of 1918–1920 and during the famines caused by the policies of the Soviet government. After the administrative-territorial reform of 2020, it became part of the Shyrokivska rural community of Zaporizhia District.