In November 2025, the Department of Criminalistics at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University launched criminalistics training courses on the use of polygraphs in investigative, detective, operational-search, expert, and judicial practice.
Polygraph examiner, candidate of legal sciences, associate professor Inna Kolesnikova, a graduate of polygraph examiner courses accredited by the VAP, talks enthusiastically about the polygraph and its potential in criminalistics.
Polygraph examiner Inna Kolesnikova attaches a 6-channel Axciton polygraph to a volunteer, which complies with DSTU 8692:2016 “Polygraphs. Technical conditions.” Very soon, as part of the training, a public experiment will begin—determining a chosen playing card using a polygraph.
Lectures, explanations, the history of polygraphology—all of this is certainly interesting. But nothing inspires faith in the polygraph like a map accurately created with its help! (Let’s test this on the “zoomer” generation.)
Viktor Mikhailovich Shevchuk eagerly awaits the next batch of lawyers who have seen for themselves that the polygraph works!
Polygraph examiner, candidate of legal sciences, associate professor Yaroslav Myshkov, a graduate of polygraph examiner courses accredited by the VAP, knows that a moment of group “belief” in the polygraph is inevitable if members of the VAP take up the case.
What was bound to happen happened – the card was installed!
We hope that such trainings, which end with an interesting practical part, will contribute to the formation of a new generation of lawyers who will be free from the negative attitude towards polygraphs that was instilled during the Soviet era.
This training, which is part of the daily educational work of the Department of Criminalistics at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, is a logical continuation of the systematic and more than 8-year cooperation between the All-Ukrainian Association of Polygraph Examiners and the leading Ukrainian law school.
In 2017, the head of the Department of Criminalistics at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Doctor of Law, Professor Viktor Shevchuk, completed the polygraph examiner courses at the All-Ukrainian Association of Polygraph Examiners. Since then, there have been many significant events that contribute to the scientifically based development of Ukrainian polygraphology and to which the Department of Criminalistics at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University is directly related.
In particular, in 2025 alone:
– Professor Viktor Shevchuk was elected chairman of the scientific and methodological council at the UAP congress;
– in the textbook “Criminalistics,” prepared by a team of authors at Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, for the first time in the history of Ukrainian legal science, an entire section devoted to polygraphology appeared – “Criminalistic Polygraphology”;
– Associate professors of the Department of Criminalistics at the Mechnikov National Law University, candidates of sciences Inna Kolesnikova and Yaroslav Myshkov, underwent training at the Center for Expert Polygraph Research of Tetyana Morozova, which is accredited by the VAP;
– At the annual Kharkiv International Legal Forum, for the first time, an entire panel discussion was devoted to polygraphology and was held under the title “Modern experience of using polygraphs in the field of national security and defense of Ukraine in conditions of martial law.” LINK
A collection of materials based on the panel discussion has been published.
– In the fall of 2025, Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University and the VAP signed a Memorandum of Partnership and Cooperation. LINK
We are sincerely grateful to the rector of the Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University, Doctor of Law, Professor Anatolii HETMAN, for his contribution to the development of Ukrainian polygraphology, and we promise to continue to deepen our cooperation for the benefit of the development of Ukrainian legal science, criminology, and polygraphology with the aim of training modern lawyers.
