• Українська
  • Русский
  • English
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

This week in history

27 June, 2006 - 00:00

June 27 1834: A university is founded in Kyiv, based on a Faculty of Philosophy with two divisions: history and philology, and physics and mathematics.

2001: The Holy Liturgy, attended by 1.5 million faithful, is celebrated at Lviv’s race track on the last day of Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ukraine.

June 28 1940: The Red Army enters Bessarabia and Northern Bukovyna.

1991: Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice registers the Association of Ukrainian Jurists.

June 29: 1945: The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia sign a treaty on Carpathian Ukraine.

1995: The president of Ukraine issues a decree establishing the annual “Teacher of the Year” Competition.

June 30 1941: A popular assembly held in Lviv proclaims the act restoring Ukrainian statehood.

1993: The Ukrainian and Slovak presidents sign an intergovernmental treaty on cooperation and friendship in Kyiv.

July 1 1930: The forerunner of Soviet harvest-combine manufacturing, the Komunar Harvest Combine Plant begins operations in Zaporizhia.

1989: The founding conference of the People’s Movement (Rukh) for Perestroika in Ukraine is held in Kyiv.

July 2 1976: A memorial site dedicated to Soviet citizens and prisoners of war (officers and soldiers) executed by the Nazis in 1941-1943 is established at Babyn Yar.

1993: Kyiv hosts the first All-Ukrainian Convention of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists.

July 3 1885: Ukrainian emigres in the US found the first St. Nicholas Brotherhood.

1961: Kryvorizhstal’s extra-class open-hearth furnace yields the first casting of metal.

Rubric: