There were organized and conducted a number of commemorative events at Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Pedagogical University, initiated by History Department and dedicated to 72nd anniversary of deportation of Crimean Tatars from the Crimean Peninsula.

The department’s curators of academic groups held curators educative hours (lessons), at which tragic events of May 18, 1944 have been discussed. Lecturers discussed with students the criminal actions, committed by the Soviet punitive organs, which caused harm to the Crimean Tatar people, their culture and historical path.

The main topic of the discussion was struggle for Crimean Tatars right to come back to their historical homeland. Soon the meeting of student discussion club will be held; at the meeting will be presented works of fighters for freedom and independence together with discussion of their right to live in their homeland.

Students of the department conducted a flash mob in the center of Uman.

On the same day, at the assembly hall of the university there was organized “watching a film” by a film director Akhtem Seyitablayev “Haytarma” – the first feature film about genocide of the Crimean Tatar people.

Before watching a film, the event’s participants watched Jamala’s triumphant performance singing a song “1944” at Eurovision.

Acting dean of History Department Anatoliy Karasevych mentioned that owing to Jamala people all over Europe felt pain of deported people and got to know about those terrible events and owing to Akhtem Seyitablev we have an opportunity to see examples of concrete people’s fates.

After watching a film “Haytarma” Uman audience stood in ovations for people that had a lot of trials, but still continues to fight for the right to live on the territory of their historical homeland.

In the end of the commemorative events national anthems of Ukrainian and Crimean Tatars people were performed.