March 28: 1708. Tsar Peter I decreed the introduction in Russia of the civil print type to replace the Old Church Slavonic one.
1944. Mykolayiv was taken from the Germans.
March 29: 1864. A Ukrainian professional theater was opened in Lviv as part of the Ruska Besida Association.
1910. The journal Ukrainsky holos (Ukrainian voice) began publication in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
March 30: 1867. The USA bought Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million (2 cents an acre).
1922. The Berezil Theater (now the Kharkiv Taras Shevchenko Academic Ukrainian Drama
Theater) was established in Kyiv.
March 31: 1951. The Lviv branch of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR was organized in Lviv.
1970. The USSR’s largest pipe-rolling shop was commissioned at Nikopol’s Southern Tube and Pipe Factory.
April 1: 1917. The Ukrainian National Rada was formed in Petrograd on the basis of Ukrainian non-governmental and political organizations.
1961. The Dnipropetrovsk Electric Locomotive Factory put out its first product, the D- 100 commercial electric locomotive.
April 2: 1596. A battle between Severyn Nalyvaiko’s insurgents and the troops of Polish Crown Hetman Zolkiewski took place near Hostry Kamin, Kyiv region.
1991. The Treaty on Friendship and Cooperation between the Ukrainian SSR and the Republic of Kyrgyzstan was signed in Bishkek.
