There is an opinion that a newspaper lives for one day. Our fellow countryman, a native of the village of Uzhova in the Rozhyshche district, a former journalist himself, later a Lviv scholar, and now a senior research associate at the Institute of Literature of the National Academy of Sciences, Ihor Pavliuk, has undertaken to prove that this is not so, particularly using the example of the Volyn press. His painstaking and persistent work in the libraries and archives of Lviv and Lutsk has culminated in the publication of several books, the latest of which, "Ukrainian Press of the Volyn Region 1939—1941, 1944—2000," has just been released by the publishing house "Volyn Regional Printing House." Meanwhile, another Lutsk publishing house — the young printing and publishing house "Tverdynia" — has printed the "Reader of the Ukrainian Legal Press of Volyn, Polissia, Kholm Region and Pidliashshia 1917—1939, 1941—1944," whose authors are the same Ihor Pavliuk together with Mykola Martyniuk, head of the journalism department at Lutsk Humanitarian University.
The presentation of both books took place at the regional scientific library named after Olena Pchilka. Ihor Pavliuk spoke about his library and archival searches and expressed sincere gratitude to those Volyn scholars, journalists, writers, librarians, teachers, and students of LHU who helped in the work on his research and contributed to its publication. According to Mykola Martyniuk, work on the reader lasted two years, as it was necessary to process and select a huge amount of materials showing the political, church, peasant, and cultural life of our region up to 1939 and in 1941—1944, texts according to various linguistic and stylistic norms.
The particular significance and value of these books, which bring to life the recent history of the region and will become practical aids for teachers, students, and journalists, were noted at the presentation by its host, candidate of philosophical sciences, associate professor of Volyn State University named after Lesya Ukrainka Viktor Zubovych, deputy head of the regional state administration Volodymyr Karpuk, rector of Lutsk Humanitarian University Andrii Zhuravlov, professor of the national university "Ostroh Academy" Petro Kraliuk, editor of the newspaper "Visnyk i K0" Yevhen Khotymchuk, editor of the national revival department of the newspaper "Volyn" Valentyna Shtynko, and others. The stylistics and spirit of the times are well conveyed in the books.
Volodymyr LYS