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Henry M. Robert

This day in history

12 June, 2012 - 00:00

1920: Ukraine’s first children’s theater starts functioning in Kharkiv (currently Lviv’s First Ukrainian Children and Youth Theater).

1934: The First Congress of Ukrainian Writers convenes in Kharkiv and adopts the Charter of the Writers’ Union of Ukraine.

1943: Soviet partisan units under Sydir Kovpak’s command raid the Carpathian Mountains until getting united in early October.

1964: The Soviet [Council] of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR institutes state prizes for outstanding achievements in mathematics, technology, chemistry, and biology (named after Krylov, Paton, Pysarzhevsky, and Yuriev, accordingly).

1972: Mykolaiv Shipyard launches the latest Siberia series transport refrigerator and starts working on a new series dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Soviet Union.

1975: The Soviet [Council] of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree forming a government-run historical and architectural preserve in Lviv.

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