Holy Dormition Svyatogorsk Lavra, 1997

1997, Donetsk Regional State Television and Radio Company. The program "Holy Mountains" tells about the Holy Assumption Svyatogorsk Lavra.

In the video: screensavers, views of the Svyatogorsk Reserve, the territory of the Lavra, monks in the caves.

Comments from the monks: Bishop Alipiy (about the persecution of believers in Soviet times, about how he reopened the Svyatogorsk Monastery; about the role of monasteries for society); the abbot of the monastery, Archimandrite Arseny (since 2015 - Metropolitan Arseny of Svyatogorsk (Ihor Yakovenko), to whom in 2024 the SBU reported suspicion in the case of disseminating information about the positions of the Ukrainian military).

A voice-over tells the legend of the first monk of Svyatogorsk and the history of the Svyatogorsk Monastery and the Assumption Cathedral.