1917: The First All-Ukrainian Congress of Peasants opens in Kyiv.
1918: The All-Russia Commission on Preservation and Detection of Monuments to the Past is founded as Russia’s first research, restoration, and production center.
1934: The GULAG (acronym for the Main Administration of Corrective Labor Camps) is attached to the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR.
1940: A Soviet-German convention on the procedures of settlement of border conflicts and incidents is signed in Moscow.
1944: The State Symphony Orchestra of the Ukrainian SSR performs in Kyiv for the first time after a three-year interval.
1944: Soviet troops launch the Vyborg-Petrozavodsk offensive, defeating the Finnish army and capturing the northern part of Leningrad oblast and most of the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic.
1951: The noted Ukrainian artist, Kateryna Bilokur, dies.
