The local government in the region attracted new immigrants with a number of advantages, such as the right to purchase their own land for low prices, and the establishment of manufacturing businesses.

Apart from agriculture, Czech immigrants began to engage in other activities, such as industry, trade and crafts.

Czech immigrants have made a major contribution to increasing the economic and cultural level in the built-up areas.

Many Volhynian Czechs were sentenced to death, or were virtually so in the gulags – which happened to many minorities at the time.

In the 1930s, as a result of Polish–Czechoslovak border conflicts, Czechs also experienced trouble in Poland, where anti-Czech propaganda was distributed by the government.

Volhynian men who fought in the ranks of the Red Army, but also those who were in Soviet captivity, reported themselves to these troops.

In March 1944 the Czechs to the resort Volyňských Rovno relocated to the First Czechoslovak Independent Brigade, which recruited former compatriots.

After the war, the door of re-emigration for Volhynian Czechs to Czechoslovakia opened on the basis of an interstate agreement between the Czechoslovak Republic and the Soviet Union.

The first transport was welcomed in Žatec at the beginning of 1947, when Czechoslovakia began to come not only to those who lived in the USSR but also to those who returned from forced labor on the former territory of the Third Reich.

Many Volhynian Czechs gave information about life in the Soviet Union, and warned about the setting up of kolkhozes, etc.

In 2014, after the Maidan revolution in Ukraine and the occupation of Crimea by Russia, some of the Volhynian Czechs from the Zhytomyr region expressed their interest in returning to their ancestral homeland.