July 15: 1920. The Kyiv Higher Institute of Public Education (now Drahomanov Ukrainian State Pedagogical University) was founded.
1989. A monument to and museum cum estate of renowned Ukrainian composer Lev Revutsky was founded in the village of Irzhavtsi, Chernihiv oblast.
July 16: 1917. The Central Rada approved the Status of Ukraine’s Higher Administration giving the Central Rada and General Secretariat the rights of a parliament and government.
1990. Verkhovna Rada approved the Declaration on Ukraine’s State Sovereignty.
July 17: 1933. After completing the construction of Dniprohes and destroying the Dnipro Rapids, the first liner started its voyage from Kyiv to Kherson.
1958. The Council of Ministers of Ukrainian SSR approved a decision On Liquidating Eight of the Ukraine’s Forty Monasteries.
July 18: 1944. The battle of Brody began, in which the Halychyna SS Division was defeated by Soviet troops.
1996. A mourning procession was assaulted at the funeral of Patriarch Volodymyr (Romaniuk) in St. Sophia Square in Kyiv.
July 19: 1678. The second siege of the Cossack capital Chyhyryn by Turkish and Tatar troops began, ending in capturing the city.
1935. The CPSU Politburo passed a decision On Removing Zinovyevite-Trotskyist and Nationalistic Literature from Ukrainian Libraries.
July 20: 1920. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR passed a decision On Creating the First Medical Research Institute.
1993. The UN Security Council recognized that the Russian Federation Supreme Council’s decision On the Status of Sevastopol has no legal force.
July 21: 1918. The Simferopol Tatar community turned to the German government with a request to make the Crimea an independent Tatar Khanate.
1956. The Ukrainian State Circus opened in Kyiv.
