Tragedy and Valor of Afghanistan Exposition (Kiev)

33 Ivana Mazepy Street (Yanvarskogo Vosstaniya Street), Kiev, Metro station: "Arsenalnaya".

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On 7th May 1992, a relic exhibition, Oh Motherland, These Are Your Sons. The Military Duty. The Heroic Deed. The Tragedy, was opened at the National Museum of the History of the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War (the Museum, for short). The exhibition told visitors about people who had participated in local wars and armed conflicts that had involved the army of the former USSR. The main part of the exhibition was dedicated to the 1979–1989 Soviet War in Afghanistan. The exhibition was opened only after serious scientific research had been carried out and active work on creation of the holdings had been done. Employees of the Museum went for research trips to all the regions of Ukraine, to most member states of the former USSR and even to Afghanistan. The exhibition was the first of its kind in the Commonwealth of Independent States (a loose union that comprises a majority of the member states of the former USSR).

In 1999, in order to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the withdrawal of the Soviet forces from Afghanistan, a new permanent exhibition, The Tragedy and the Valour of Afghanistan, was created by employees of the Museum, with the support of the following organisations and individuals: Ukraine's State Committee on Veteran Affairs, the Kiev City, Chernigov Region and Sumy Region authorities, the Ukrainian Union of the Afghanistan Veterans, the Kiev City Council and parents of soldiers that had died in Afghanistan. This exhibition occupies two rooms that contain over 4,000 relics. Many photographs, documents, objects, letters, posters, and newspapers help to reconstruct the contemporary political situation in the world and the USSR, name those responsible for starting this gamble, show its tragic consequences, allow to understand the faithfulness to military duty, the valour, and the heroism of rank-and-file participants of this undeclared war.

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Tragedy and Valor of Afghanistan Exposition

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