April 4: 1838. Taras Shevchenko was bought out of serfdom.
1919. Ukrainian Front troops entered the Crimea, taking the cities of Perekop and Virmensky Bazar.
April 5: 1657. A council of Cossack senior officers passed a resolution in Chyhyryn making the office of Hetman hereditary.
1992. The Black Sea Fleet was proclaimed Ukrainian by decree of Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk.
April 6: 1921. The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee resolved to form Istpart, The Commission on the History of the Communist Party, October Revolution, and Socialist Movement in Ukraine, patterned on its Russian counterpart.
1950. The USSR Council of Ministers passed a secret resolution that persons deported in 1944- 1949, irrespective of the term of banishment, should be considered exiled for life.
April 7: 1906. The illegal Bolshevik newspaper Soldat (Soldier) began publication in Sevastopol.
1989. A commemorative sign was unveiled in Kyiv to honor the heroic exploits Soviet and Polish antiaircraft gunners during the battle of Kyiv in World War II.
April 8: 1944. Soviet troops launched the Crimean offensive which resulted in their taking the Crimea.
1990. The Ukrainian-American Renaissance Foundation (now the International Renaissance Foundation) was founded.
April 9: 1917. The Central All-Ukrainian Cooperative Union was founded at the first congress of Ukraine’s cooperative leagues.
1974. The first Soviet 182,000-ton supertanker Krym was launched in Kerch.
April 10: 1944. Soviet troops took Odesa from the Germans.
1996. Ukraine introduced the system of wholesale purchases and sales of electricity.
