December 26: 1825. Revolutionary Russian and Ukrainian nobles (later referred to as Decembrists) rebelled in an abortive attempt to block the accession of Emperor Nicholas I.
1947. The VKP(b) Central Committee elected Nikita Khrushchev First Secretary of the KP(b)U.
December 27: 1921. The All-Russian Central Executive Committee passed a decree to confiscate church and monastery valuables.
1996. Verkhovna Rada passed the law On the Privatization of State Enterprises’ Property.
December 28: 1918. The Russian Council of People’s Commissars decreed to draft medical doctors, pharmacists, and paramedics for active military service.
1920. The Ukrainian SSR and the RFSSR signed in Moscow a union treaty on the establishment of a military and economic alliance.
December 29: 1964. The first turbine generator of the Kyiv Hydroelectric Station began to produce commercial electricity.
1965. A monument to Mykola Lysenko, founder of Ukrainian classical music, was unveiled in Kyiv.
December 30: 1616. Chasoslov, the first book printed in Kyiv, was published.
1922. The First All-Union Congress of Soviets approved the Declaration and the Treaty on the Formation of the USSR.
December 31: 1932. The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee and the Council of People’s Commissars of Ukraine decreed the introduction of an internal passport system and mandatory domicile registration (propyska) in the Ukrainian SSR.
1943. Troops of the First Ukrainian Front took Zhytomyr from the Germans.
January 1: 1935. The USSR canceled ration cards introduced in 1930.
