Museum of Partisan Glory of Polissya

Zhytomyr Television. The program "On Our Land" for October 23, 2008 is dedicated to honoring the memory of fallen partisans and underground fighters on the Day of Partisan Glory.

On video: Slovechansky Museum of Partisan Glory of Polissya; laying flowers by representatives of the regional administration at the monument to the partisans and Alexander Saburov, various shots; interview with museum employees, story about replenishing the funds, moving away from ideology and historical truth; children recite poems about the war, handing flowers to veterans, awarding veterans by representatives of the regional administration; museum exposition, various shots.

Comments: Head of the Ovrutskyi district administration Ihor Klymenko; Head of the regional organization of TSOU (Society for the Promotion of the Defense of Ukraine) Mykhailo Nikolus; Junior Research Fellow of the Museum Tamara Kichka; Veteran of the partisan unit Saburova Ivan Andrusovych; Deputy Director of Secondary School No. 17 of Zhytomyr Maria Servachuk; Chairman of the Ovrutskyi District Council Mykola Levkivskyi; Students of Secondary School No. 17 of Zhytomyr Oleksandra Nikolus, Andriy Kohut; Head of the Ovrutskyi organization of the TSOU Serhiy Ihnatiuk.

The program was worked on by: Volodymyr Sholdruk, Mykola Podolyan, Tetyana Orlyuk, Lyudmila Kachor, Valentina Gladkikh.

Reference: The Museum of Partisan Glory of Polissya was opened on November 4, 1962 in the village of Slovechne, Zhytomyr region, at the initiative of local authorities in honor of the Shchors association. Until 1971, it operated on a non-profit basis, and later became a department of the Zhytomyr Museum of Local Lore. The museum's collections contain materials about the partisan movement in Polissya.