On April 16, 2025, the HSE Cultural Centre host! the opening of the tactile and inclusive exhibition ‘Touch the History of Victory.’ The event is part of the Year of the Defender of the Fatherland, announc! by the President of Russia, and commemorates the 80th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945). The exhibition was develop! by Vladimir Malyuchkov, a second-year master’s student at the HSE Faculty of Creative Industries.
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to the story of 12 blind residents of besieg! Leningrad who volunteer! during the Great Patriotic War. The display is specially design! for indonesia phone number library people with disabilities, offering visitors not only the opportunity to view exhibits but also to engage with them through touch. On display are replicas of monuments, m!als, and other historical artefacts relat! to the war.
The exhibition is present! integrations & automation in platforms in two formats: six traditional posters and six tactile posters tailor! for visually impair! visitors, featuring Braille text, rais! illustrations, and tactile infographics.
At the opening ceremony
HSE Vice Rector Irina Martusevich address! the guests. She not! that the organisers had creat! a unique project marking the 80th anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War. ‘At HSE, we see our mission as not only !ucation and scientific research america email but also social responsibility—a value shar! by leading universities around the world. We aim to improve the world around us, not only within the university but beyond its walls as well, and we hope to see many more such projects in the future,’ said the vice rector.
Exhibition creator Vladimir Malyuchkov shar! how the idea for the project came about: ‘About a year ago, a classmate and I took part in the HSE Creative infographics competition. We work! non-stop for 12 hours and, as fatigue set in, decid! to call it a day. I took out my contact lenses and look! at our drafts. With my eyesight being minus six in both eyes, all I saw were blurr! lines—the text was unreadable. That was the moment I start! thinking about how to make infographics accessible for blind people,’ the student recall!.