June 11: 1990. The First All-Union Congress of Miners opened in Donetsk.
1992. The International Solomon Jewish University opened in Kyiv.
June 12: 1943. The Carpathian raid to unite Soviet partisans regiments under Semen Kovpak began.
1964. The Council of Ministers of Ukraine founded prizes named after renowned Ukrainian scholars Mykola Krylov (mathematics), Yevhen Paton (technology), Lev Pysarzhevsky (chemistry), and Vasyl Yuryev (biology).
June 13: 1983. The Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet passed an order On Awarding Sevastopol the Order of October Revolution in connection with its bicentennial.
1996. President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma announced that the removal of strategic nuclear weapons from Ukraine to Russia was completed.
June 14: 1996. By presidential order the Oles Honchar All-Ukrainian Fund to Restore Outstanding Monuments of Historical and Cultural Legacy was founded.
1997. A new all-Ukrainian trade union organization, the Union of Independent Trade Unions, was created.
June 15: 1917. The Committee of the Central Rada created the General Secretariat, its executive body, electing Volodymyr Vynnychenko its head.
1918. The first issue of Kommunist [Communist] newspaper, now Democratic Ukraine, was published.
June 16: 1934. The First Writers’ Congress of Ukraine opened, creating the Writers’ Union of Ukraine.
1963. The first female astronaut Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) began her space flight.
June 17: 1944. The Central Committee of the Communist Party (bolshevik) of Ukraine passed a decision On Assisting the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in Organizing the Partisan Movement in Czechoslovak Territory.
1993. An agreement and a communiquО were signed on urgently forming navy forces of Russia and Ukraine on the base of Black Sea Navy in the proportion of 50:50.
