This week in history

December 6. Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

1932. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR and the CP(b)U Central Committee passed a decision on blacklisting the villages, ‘maliciously’ failing to fulfill their grain quotas, thus putting them under a blockade.

December 7, 1921. A temporary agreement was signed in Vienna between Russian and Ukrainian Soviet Republics on one side and Austria on the other.

1934. The Council of People’s Commissars of USSR passed a decision On Canceling the Rationing Card System for Bread, Flour, and Cereals.

December 8, 1941. The Komintern Kharkiv Tractor Plant produced its first 25 T-34 tanks in evacuation.

1991. Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine signed an agreement On the Community of Independent States (CIS) in Brest.

December 9, 1918. By a Direktoriya decision the UNR laws On the Eight Hour Work Day, Implementing Collective Contracts, and the Right for Strikes were renewed.

1972. Energy unit with the capacity of 300 kWt/h of the Europe’s biggest Vuhlehirsk Hydroelectric Power Plant started operation.

December 10, 1637. Pavlo But’s Cossack and peasants’ forces that rose up against the Polish nobility suffered a defeat near Borovytsia.

1963. The Dniprodzerzhynsk Hydroelectric Plant first generated commercial electricity.

December 11, 1917. Kharkiv hosted the rump First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets, which proclaimed Ukraine a Soviet republic after being driven out of Kyiv.

1991. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine resolved to establish diplomatic relations with the former USSR republics.

December 12, 1818. An Institute of Noble Young Ladies was inaugurated in Poltava.

1988. Kyiv saw the maiden flight of the An-225 (Mriya) cargo aircraft.