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This week in history

25 July, 00:00

July 25 1920: White Guard units of the Russian Army launch combat operations in the vicinity of Oleksandrivsk, capturing the Donetsk Coal Basin (Donbas).

1983: The construction of the 4,451-kilometer-long Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhhorod transcontinental oil pipeline is completed.

July 26 1648: Cossack regiments under Maksym Kryvonis’s command defeat Jeremi Wisniowiecki’s troops at Starokostiantyniv.

1995: The Ukrainian and Russian governments sign accords in Moscow on guidelines governing the formation of Ukrainian-Russian financial/industrial groups and cooperation on environmental protection.

July 27 1649: Rebels led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeat the Polish army at Zbarazh.

1991: Kyiv is the site of a convention, convened by Rukh, of army officers and Ukrainian nationals. A Ukrainian Officers Union of Ukraine is founded, and its main task is to create a Ukrainian national army.

July 28 1945: The restored History Museum reopens in Lviv.

1993: Ukrainian and US defense ministers sign a memorandum of understanding in Washington.

July 29 1880: The Ivan Ayvazovsky Art Gallery opens in Feodosiya (Crimea).

1994: Ukraine’s parliament suspends the privatization process on the national level.

July 30 1920: The Ukrainian Military Organization is formed under the leadership of Yevhen Konovalets.

1944: The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR and Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine adopt measures to “combat the situation of parentless and homeless children in Ukraine.”

July 31: 1924: The Polish government bans the use of the Ukrainian language in official institutions in Eastern Galicia.

1996: “Narkobiznes,” an automated ministerial database on illegal drug trafficking, is created in Ukraine.

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