{"id":1025233,"date":"2026-08-24T17:21:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1025233"},"modified":"2026-08-24T17:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T14:21:57","slug":"filming-for-a-documentary-for-the-ntv-channel-took-place-in-polotsk-archives-come-to-life-on-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1025233","title":{"rendered":"Filming for a documentary for the NTV channel took place in Polotsk: archives come to life on screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On August 22, 2026, <strong>the Zonal State Archives in Polotsk<\/strong> became the filming location for the documentary project <strong>\u00abBased on Real Events\u00bb<\/strong> on the Russian federal television channel NTV.<\/p>\n<p>It was no coincidence that the film crew worked within the archive&#8217;s walls. The new, large-scale film, consisting of four episodes (total running time: 160 minutes), is dedicated to one of the most heroic and poignant chapters in the history of the Great Patriotic War\u2014the operation by partisans and pilots to rescue the children of the Polotsk Orphanage.<\/p>\n<p>The script is based on eyewitness accounts and relatives of those involved in the operation. Historians and archivists&#8217; work with documents allowed the project to draw on reliable sources, bringing the dramatic events of 1944 to life for viewers.<\/p>\n<p>Work on the film continues, and the documentary series is expected to premiere on federal television.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured:<\/strong> participants of the project \u00abBased on real events\u00bb: candidate of historical sciences, associate professor, vice-rector for ideological and educational work of the Polotsk State University named after Euphrosyne of Polotsk Alesya Iosifovna Korsak, chairman of the Polotsk district organization of the public association \u00abBelarusian Union of Officers\u00bb Boris Ivanovich Ryasov, archivist Pavel Mikhailovich Safronov.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\"  width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"gen_table\">\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1-49.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1086737\" class=\"wp-image-1086737 alignnone size-full\" width=\"70%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On August 22, 2026, the Zonal State Archives in Polotsk became the filming location for the documentary project \u00abBased on Real Events\u00bb on the Russian federal television channel NTV. It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025233"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025235,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025233\/revisions\/1025235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}