On October 8-9, 2021, Mykhailo Gutor, Head of the Archives Department, conducted an excursion for students of the Vadym Hetman Kyiv National University of Economics and students of the Bila Tserkva Collegium Lyceum on the territory of the National Historical and Memorial Reserve "Babyn Yar".
During the tour the following topics were revealed: Babyn Yar to the beginning of the XX century; Kyiv during the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921; Social and political changes in Soviet society in the 1930s; The beginning of the Second World War, the participation of the USSR in the breaking the war; Racial theory, Nazi ideology; The defeat of the Red Army near Kyiv, the entry of German troops into the city, mines, sabotage and explosions on Khreshchatyk and elsewhere in Kyiv, the demolition of the Dormition Cathedral of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, the German occupation administration, the formation of civilian authorities from the local population, public space, communication channels with the local population and Nazi propaganda in occupied Kyiv; Activities of the Einsatzgruppe SS and Einsatzgruppe "C", the beginning of the executions of Jews on September 29-30, 1941, the history of the survivors and those who saved them; The fate of Soviet prisoners of war, prisoner-of-war camps in Kyiv; Shootings of Roma in Babyn Yar, murder of patients of the psychiatric hospital named after Pavlov; the OUN underground in Kyiv, the Soviet underground in Kyiv; "Action 1005", cremation of corpses in Babyn Yar; The project to create a monument in Babyn Yar in 1945, the first literary and musical works dedicated to the execution of Jews in Babyn Yar; Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign, the struggle against "cosmopolitanism" and "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism"; Kureniv catastrophe in 1961; Soviet monument of 1976; Informal commemoration of the victims of Babyn Yar during the stagnation, protests in Babyn Yar; construction of Babyn Yar since Independence; honouring the victims of Babyn Yar since the Independence of Ukraine.
