January 25: 1931. A ten-day campaign to liquidate illiteracy began throughout Ukraine.
1955. The Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet decreed to lift the state of war between the Soviet Union and Germany.
January 26: 1923. Hart , the league of Ukrainian proletarian writers, was founded in Kharkiv.
1954. The Council of Ministers of the USSR passed a resolution on building the North Crimean Canal.
January 27: 1860. The complete Kobzar by Taras Shevchenko was published.
1929. The founding congress of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) opened in Vienna.
January 28: 1920. The National Ivan Franko Academic Drama Theater was founded in Kyiv.
1992. Verkhovna Rada Ukraine approved the traditional national blue-yellow flag as Ukraine’s official one.
January 29: 1900. The Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP), Eastern Ukraine’s first political party, was founded in Kharkiv.
1918. In the Battle of Kruty 300 Kyiv cadets fell in an unequal fight to defend Kyiv from the Bolshevik Red Guards.
January 30: 1918. The UNR government turned to Germany and Austria-Hungary for military aid to liberate Ukraine from the Bolsheviks.
1937. The extraordinary XIX Congress of Soviets of Ukraine approved a new Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR.
January 31: 1920. The Communist-oriented newspaper Ukrayinski shchodenni visti (Ukrainian Daily News) began publication in New York.
1943. Field Marshal Paulus signed the act of the surrender of Nazi German troops near Stalingrad.
