1nd year students took part in a solemn event «Afghanistan: Tragedy and Valor», dedicated to the 32nd anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The event was organized by the city local history museum of Temirtau. Participation in the event was organized by the head of the department of ANK KarIU Zhanabergenova Dinara Kenesovna and the teacher of the department «Kazakh, Russian and foreign languages» Dariga Hayreddenovna Mendybaeva.

The event is valuable because the exhibits were used in three languages. Educational video material was presented to the students, it was told in detail about the tragedy of those times.

The most significant are personal belongings, uniforms, awards, samples of weapons, documents, memories of relatives and friends, photographs, letters of internationalist warriors from Afghanistan, their stories are written on paper, a reminder of themselves who went through all the circles of hell and fulfilled their duty to the end with valor and honor. According to information from the museum employee Gulim Sekentaevna: 336 residents of the city of metallurgists went through the war in Afghanistan. Nine of them did not return home. For 10 years of war, more than 600 thousand Soviet citizens passed through Afghanistan. More than 22 thousand of them are Kazakhstanis. And the Karaganda region was not spared by the war: about 2 thousand people were sent to fulfill their international duty. During the hostilities, 86 Karaganda residents were killed.

The main thing that the student drew attention to was the «Army Panama» hat of the 1969 model. It was Panama that remained a symbol of the participation of Soviet troops in the Afghan war. The exhibit was given to them by the political officer of the Temirtau military commissariat Vladimir Bodryagin. No one could be left indifferent and heartbreaking stories about the fate of the soldiers – internationalists major Nikiforov I.N., Ishtvanik, A.N., Kalugin A., Litvinov A., Gryaznova V., etc.

This event is aimed at the patriotic education of young people, the formation of an active civic position among students, awareness of the importance of knowledge of languages, the ability to apply the knowledge gained in the lessons of the humanitarian cycle (project activities, creative projects, development of activities, research activities through search work, writing educational research works on museum materials).