The beginning of the work of Zhytomyr Television, 1992

1992, Zhytomyr Regional Television.

The video features a presentation of the regional television station—presenters, management, journalists and programmes (“Code”, “Land and Freedom”, “Rural Street”, “State-Building”, “Danger Zone”, “Loneliness”), footage of the city, a quick poll asking “Who is Sagaidachny?”, City Day celebrations, the Japanese charity organisation “Chernobyl-Tubu”, and a prison.

Featured in the video: Ukrainian television presenter and People’s Artist of Ukraine Tamara Stratiienko; television presenters — Iryna Hrytsenko (Antonovych), Nina Zelinska (Sobkovych) and Serhii Bohynskyi; the President’s representative in Zhytomyr Oblast, Anton Malynovskyi; the Director General of the Regional Television and Radio Association, Viktor Boiko; Deputy Director General Viktor Khomchuk; Chief Engineer Leonid Omelchenko; Editor-in-Chief Vasyl Golovetskyi; Chief Director and Honoured Artist of Ukraine Volodymyr Savchenko; journalists Lyudmyla Natykach, Oleksandr Kryuchkov, Volodymyr Vasylchuk, Mykhailo Synyogub, and Volodymyr Sholdruk; Chairman of the Board of the “Komsomolets Ukrainy” collective farm, Petro Lakiychuk; Chairman of the “Chornobyl-Tyubu” public organisation, Jose Gala.