On October 14, 2024, first- and second-year undergraduate students of the Department of Management and Smart Innovations together with their curators Svitlana Bondarenko and Natalia Kyrylko visited the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War.

The employees of the museum gave the students a tour “...beyond the border of their native land” about the current course of the Russian-Ukrainian war, in particular outside Ukraine, and “Time Capsule” – about the events of the Second World War.

On August 6, 2024, the Defense Forces of Ukraine launched a defense operation in the Kursk Region of the Russian Federation. The students got acquainted with cartographic, physical, written, photo-documentary materials, which confirm the existence of close historical connections between these lands and other lands of Slobozhanshchyna. The exhibition presents artifacts from the periods of Ukrainian Cossack colonization, the Mazepa’s era, the liberation struggles of the beginning of the 20th century and the formation of the Soviet Union – when the borders of the RSFSR and the USSR were demarcated. The demonstrated archival materials clearly testify to the clear expression of the will of the local communities to come under the control of Ukraine, but this expression of will was ignored by the authorities. In this way, the inhabitants of Kurshchyna found themselves as part of the Russian Soviet Republic, “outside the border of their native land”.

The students climbed to the viewing platform of the Landscape museum – 36.6 m, which is located around the foot of the Motherland Monument. Military binoculars with 30-fold optical magnification are located on the observation deck, giving tourists the opportunity to admire the views of Kyiv.

The students were interested to learn that during the invasion of the Russian aggressor on the territory of our country in February 2022, one of the tanks of the museum moved on its own and drove towards the Russian Federation. Now there is a sign with the white and blue name “To Moscow”.

The students honored the memory of the children who died during the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war in the Pechersk Fortress.

23.10.2024