Ukrainian Diaspora in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan

State Enterprise "Ukrainian Studio of Television Films "Ukrtelefilm", 1995.

The TV film "Beyond the Mountains, Beyond the Valleys" is dedicated to the history of the emergence of Ukrainian settlements in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, the local Ukrainian diaspora.

On the video: landscapes of Kazakhstan, folk songs; conversation with Iryna Yarema, tells about the first visit to Ukraine; historical information about the resettlement of Cossacks to the territory of modern Kazakhstan by the Russian Empire; map "Akmola Region", the village of Poltavka, cemetery; conversation with representatives of the Ukrainian diaspora in Kyrgyzstan; chronicle of the 1950s, stories about leaving for the "virgin land"; story about the publication of the Ukrainian newspaper "Ukrainian News" in Kazakhstan; New Year, celebrations, children congratulate on Christmas, sing carols "Good evening..."; Volodymyr Narozya on the problems of learning the Ukrainian language in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan; performances by amateur choirs "Zacharovana pisnya", "Chervona kalyna", singing Ukrainian folk songs.

Comments: Honored Artist of Kazakhstan Iryna Yarema; Doctor of Philology Ivan Sherstyuk; Chairman of the Ukrainian Society "Berehynia" Volodymyr Narozya; Charge d'Affaires of Ukraine in the Republic of Kazakhstan Mykola Karpenko; Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Chairman of the Editorial Board of the newspaper "Ukrainian News" Oleksandr Harkavets; Minister of Ukraine for Nationalities, Migration and Culture Mykola Shulga.

Director — Serhiy Dudka.