April 24: 1735. A Russian imperial ukase legally strengthened property inequality among Cossacks of the Ukrainian Hetmanate by dividing them into the select and subalterns.
1949. The State Shevchenko Arts and Literature Museum was opened in Kyiv.
April 25: 1945. The Soviet and American troops met on the Elbe River at Torgau.
1995. The President of Ukraine issued a decree on creating the Fund for Social Protection of World War II Veterans.
April 26: 1986. An accident occurred at the Fourth Unit of the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station.
1996. The President of Ukraine issued a decree on creating the Chornobyl Center for Issues of the Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste Products, and Radiation Ecology.
April 27: 1906. Ukrainsky Vestnik (Ukrainian Herald), the first Ukrainian political journal in Russia, began publication in the Russian language in St. Petersburg.
1995. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukraine’s first state award.
April 28: 1887. A congress of sugar producers of South Russia created the first monopolistic trust in Ukraine and Russia, a sugar syndicate.
1947. Operation Wisla began, involving the deportation of over 140,000 Ukrainian residents from the eastern regions Poland to the west and northeast.
April 29: 1918. German forces disbanded the Ukrainian Central Rada, and Gen. Pavlo Skoropadsky was proclaimed Hetman of Ukraine.
1992. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ratified a decision on the status of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea.
April 30: 1615. A printing shop was founded in the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra (Monastery of the Caves).
1990. The congress of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union in Kyiv decided to disband itself and be reconstituted as the Ukrainian Republican Party.
