A photo exhibition about the events in the Kursk region has opened in Moscow.

Documentary photo exhibition "Kursk character. Afterword", which tells about the events in the Kursk region from August 2024 to April 2025, opened in Moscow on Gogol Boulevard. Footage from the exhibition on May 21 is published by Izvestia.

The exhibition features an exposition of 31 photographs dedicated to the events in the Kursk region. It shows the works of Russian photojournalists, including a member of the Union of Journalists of the Russian Federation, documentary photographer Sergei Venyavsky, Ekaterina Zatolokina, Anna Dolgareva and Danil Dmitrakov. Their works depict volunteers, rescuers of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, doctors, administration staff, clergy and residents of the region. It is specified that it will be possible to visit the exhibition until the end of October.

The first work, which begins a series of reportage photographs telling about the events of the Kursk region, was a photograph of a boy Nikita launching a toy airplane against the backdrop of a high-rise building on Soyuznaya Street. It was damaged by fragments of a Ukrainian rocket.

"An airplane is a symbol of happiness, a symbol of dreams, a symbol of freedom, and perhaps this photo still symbolizes that no one can defeat us," Venyavsky told Izvestia, commenting on the picture.

Rodion Miroshnik, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, pointed out that people often only talk about important things, but they don't often show facts that can be presented to the international community.

"Sometimes one photo, one look, is more important, more meaningful than a thousand words," Miroshnik noted.

Photographer Ekaterina Zatolokina shared her impressions of a trip to the Kursk region to create photographs. Her work is also featured in the exhibition.

"When I went to Suju, I expected to see people who were broken and intimidated, but I saw the same fighters who had been fighting under occupation for nine months," she said.

The photographer emphasized the solidarity and resilience of the residents of the Kursk region.

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