Союз TV guide for the week

Soyuz is Russia’s first Orthodox television channel dedicated to spiritual, educational and religious broadcasting. Its round-the-clock Russian-language schedule is built around Orthodox culture, church history and religious tradition.

The programme includes church services, spiritual shows, educational cycles, cultural and historical projects, regional studies and family-oriented content. Church services account for 26 hours a week, while the remaining programmes keep an Orthodox foundation and also serve an educational purpose.

Soyuz covers the work of dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia and abroad. More than 50 dioceses place regular programmes on air, and more than 100 send reports and stories. Soyuz began broadcasting on 31 January 2005 on the basis of the television studio of the Yekaterinburg Diocese and Telekompaniya Soyuz LLC, which had broadcast on TV channel 21 in Pervouralsk.

On 21 December 2005, Soyuz received the right to broadcast terrestrially on TV channel 21 in Yekaterinburg, becoming the first Russian confessional media outlet with citywide terrestrial broadcasting in a city of one and a half million residents. The project is financed by private donations and carried through Russian cable, satellite and IPTV/OTT networks.