Sumy 1941–1943: the history of the underground movement

October 15, 2010. Sumy Regional State Television and Radio Company. Program "Zemlyaki. Strolls with the blade of a knife" tells about the activities of underground organizations in Sumy Oblast during the German occupation during the Second World War. The program is about the youth underground group "Prapor", which operated in the occupied Sumy under the leadership of Dmytro Kosarenko, as well as about other members of the underground.

The material uses a black-and-white chronicle of the Second World War, footage of post-war Sumy, photos of underground people, archival documents and Komsomol tickets of members of the "Prapor" group. Photos of Dmytro Kosarenko, Fyodor Dubrovsky and other members of the underground, a memorial sign to Fyodor Dubrovsky on the street named after him, as well as archival photos of executed underground members are shown.

Commenting: local historian, head of the editorial and publishing group Oleg Kornienko, researcher of the underground movement Volodymyr Bubnov, son of the executed underground Mykola Durbovskyi, deputy of the Sumy City Council Oleksandr Peresadko.

Anna Skrypnyak, Serhiy Surkov, Ruslan Pavlov, Anna Klymenko, Oleksandr Demydenko worked on the program.