This day in history

1653: Muscovy’s Zemskii Sobor [lit., assembly of the land] resolves to place the Zaporozhian Host under the aegis of the Moscow tsar.

1859: Ukraine’s first Sunday school opens in Kyiv.

1921: Kyiv hosts an all-Ukraine Orthodox assembly, involving 500 clergymen and laymen, establishing the Ukrainian Orthodox Autocephalous Church headed by Metropolitan Vasyl Lypkivsky.

1940: The CC AUCP(B) and the USSR’s Council of People’s Commissars (Sovnarkom) resolve to set the Donbas coal mines on a two-shift schedule, along with an emergency team.

1941: CC VKP (B) Ukraine resolves to establish a Republican Red Army Wounded Men Relief Committee.

1942: The State Defense Committee of the USSR adopts a decree to develop partisan movement in Ukraine.

1995: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopts the Cabinet’s action plan.