Transformation of historical education is one of the leading components of modernization of the Ukrainian educational business in accordance with the needs of practice, development of modern science, increase of historical culture of citizens.The need to create a new system of teaching historical disciplines is a matter of necessity -without this it would be useless to talk about raising the historical culture and patriotic views of cadets of military institutions of higher education.Without effective study and thorough knowledge of onе's own history, which is one of the most important means of consolidating Ukrainian society, it is hardly possible to raise the national consciousness and make significant changes in its reform and renewal. Now, more than ever, Ukraine needs a high level of consolidation, unity, national-state consciousness, patriotism, proper ideological weapons and readiness to repel the enemy adequately. Given the profound changes taking place in society, the question of the content and direction of historical education in higher military school is especially acute.The assertion that the teaching of Ukrainian history today needs qualitative improvement, renewal and modernization is unlikely to arouse anyonе's doubts or objections. We need to focus on those important moments in history that most shape the national and historical consciousness, raise feelings of patriotism, pride, and love for the Motherland among young people.It is necessary to be able to present the history and culture of Ukraine to cadets so that they are proud of their homeland, the exploits of their ancestors, emphasize love for the country's past, raise the spirit of the Ukrainian people, and most importantly -need a deep in-depth structural and conceptual restructuring.For well-known reasons, Ukraine has long taught a "sterile", ie cleansed of "undesirable" facts, comparisons, judgments, essentially trouble-free history of the state, which had a moralizing nature and was aimed at mechanical assimilation of certain empirical material and dogmatic assessments. In other words, it was "history without history", from which analytical and critical elements were actually removed, 10. September, 2021 • Zürich, Schweiz • 165 .