February 20: 1919. The Council of People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR ratified a decree on civil marriage and introduced forms for civil registration.
1986. The first Sevmorput Ukrainian nuclear light tanker was launched from the Zatoka Plant in Kerch.
February 21: 1948. In time of famine the USSR Supreme Soviet issued an ukase on the expulsion from Ukraine of those maliciously avoiding farm labor and conducting a parasitic way of life.
1996. An agreement was signed by the Presidents of Ukraine and the USA on launching commercial satellites.
February 22: 1945. The Sovnarkom of the USSR ratified the decision to build a subway in Kyiv (the first line was put into operation in 1960).
February 23: 1922. The All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK) issued a decree on the confiscation of church values for the State Fund to Support the Hungry (it actually went to fund foreign Communist Parties), initiating the process of robbing and destroying churches.
1937. An All-Union Communist Party Central Committee plenum expelled Nikolai Bukharin and Aleksei Rykov the Party in preparation for their show trial.
February 24: 1919. Poland and the UNR signed an armistice.
1966. The XXIII Communist Party Congress began, electing Leonid Brezhnev as CPSU General Secretary.
February 25: 1957. The State Publishing House for Children’s Literature was founded.
1994. The founding meeting of Intelekt Ukrainy [Ukraine’s Intellect] uniting about a hundred outstanding scholars, cultural figures, politicians, and government officials, was held in Kyiv.
February 26: 1878. The trial of a group of renowned Galician public figures accused of revolutionary activities, including Ivan Franko, Mykhailo Pavlyk, Oleksandr Terletsky, began in Lviv.
1993: The Ukrainian Ministry of Justice registered Rukh [People’s Movement of Ukraine].
