Comprehensive and cultural development of cadets is one of the key principles in police training at the Dnipro State University of Internal Affairs. Thus, every week, outside of class hours, students engage in the artistic life of the city.
Cadets from the Faculty of Training Specialists for the Criminal Police of the National Police of Ukraine visited the photography exhibition “Angels of Sport.” The project tells the stories and honors the memory of 461 Ukrainian athletes who lost their lives due to Russia’s full-scale invasion. Among them, 43 were from Dnipro and the surrounding region.
This time, future investigators visited the Museum of Contemporary Russian-Ukrainian War. Cadets from the Faculty of Training Specialists for Pre-trial Investigation of the National Police of Ukraine toured the street exhibition “The Pathways of Donbas,” which features samples of weapons and equipment damaged in battle, as well as other war artifacts from the East. The interior exhibition preserves the personal belongings and documents of ATO (Anti-Terrorist Operation) participants, including those from the Dnipro region.
Cadets also learned more about the hero city of Mariupol at the exhibition “Written by War: Testimonies Preserved in Books.” This exhibition presents the diaries of journalists who were in the city at the time of the invasion, as well as books with photographs that captured moments of pain and suffering. Some publications are dedicated to the heroes of the war—those who defended their land and those who became victims of aggression.
“The most striking were the ‘before’ and ‘after’ photographs: a vibrant city full of life, and then—ruins, darkness, and death. After the exhibition, there was a sense of heaviness, but at the same time—gratitude. Events like these are necessary for the Ukrainian people to remember history, value peace, and draw important conclusions,” shared the future law enforcement officers.
At the Dnipro Art Museum, the cadets viewed the exhibition “Mutation” – a series of paintings by Volodymyr Habuda, where the artist works with both physical and metaphysical plasticity. According to the concept, mutations represent an emotional situation in which things and living creatures are trapped, like in a snare. The cadets noted that the artist’s work strangely balances between catastrophe and salvation.
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