This week in history

December 27 1934. The Politburo of VKP(b) Central Committee approved a decision to deport 2000 “anti-Soviet” families from Ukraine’s border territories.

1996. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passed a bill On Privatizing the Property of State Enterprises.

December 28 1920. The Union Treaty on Mutual Recognition of Sovereignity and Independence between Ukrainian and Russian Republics was signed in Moscow.

1960. The Kharkiv Turbine Plant produced the first steam turbine for the Novovoronezhsk Nuclear Power Station.

December 29 1964. The first turbogenerator was put into work at the Kyiv Hydroelectric Station.

1965. A monument to Mykola Lysenko, the founder of Ukrainian classical music, was unveiled in Kyiv.

December 30 1922. The First Council of Soviets started, proclaiming creating of USSR.

1992. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Zeleny Svit (Green World) Ukrainian Ecology Association.

December 31 1930. The First All-Ukrainian Congress of the Twenty- Five Thousanders started its work in Kharkiv.

1932. A decision on introducing a unified passport system and compulsory passport registration (propiska) in the Ukrainian SSR was made public.

January 1 1938. The first issue of the Radianska Ukraina republican newspaper, media outlet of the CP(b)U Central Committee and Kyiv Oblast Committee, was published in Kyiv.

1992. Nonexpandable coupons were introduced in Ukraine’s territory.

January 2 1918. An order was issed by chief otaman Symon Petliura on expulsion from Ukraine of “all enemies of the Ukrainian authorities guilty of felonious propaganda against it”.

1974. The construction of Ukraine’s biggest iron ore processing enterprise, the Artiom-2 mine with the capacity of 12 million tons of ore per year, was finished in Dnipropetrovsk oblast.