This week in history

June 27 1834: A university is founded in Kyiv, based on a Faculty of Philosophy with two divisions: history and philology, and physics and mathematics.

2001: The Holy Liturgy, attended by 1.5 million faithful, is celebrated at Lviv’s race track on the last day of Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ukraine.

June 28 1940: The Red Army enters Bessarabia and Northern Bukovyna.

1991: Ukraine’s Ministry of Justice registers the Association of Ukrainian Jurists.

June 29: 1945: The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia sign a treaty on Carpathian Ukraine.

1995: The president of Ukraine issues a decree establishing the annual “Teacher of the Year” Competition.

June 30 1941: A popular assembly held in Lviv proclaims the act restoring Ukrainian statehood.

1993: The Ukrainian and Slovak presidents sign an intergovernmental treaty on cooperation and friendship in Kyiv.

July 1 1930: The forerunner of Soviet harvest-combine manufacturing, the Komunar Harvest Combine Plant begins operations in Zaporizhia.

1989: The founding conference of the People’s Movement (Rukh) for Perestroika in Ukraine is held in Kyiv.

July 2 1976: A memorial site dedicated to Soviet citizens and prisoners of war (officers and soldiers) executed by the Nazis in 1941-1943 is established at Babyn Yar.

1993: Kyiv hosts the first All-Ukrainian Convention of the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists.

July 3 1885: Ukrainian emigres in the US found the first St. Nicholas Brotherhood.

1961: Kryvorizhstal’s extra-class open-hearth furnace yields the first casting of metal.