This week in history

July 26, 1648. Insurgents led by Maksym Kryvonis routed Wysznewiecki’s Polish army near Starokostiantynov.

1995. The governments of Ukraine and Russia signed in Moscow an agreement on the main principles of establishing Ukrainian-Russian financial-industrial groups.

July 27, 1649. Ukrainian insurgents led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky defeated a Polish army near Zbarazh.

1991. A Congress of Army Officers, Citizens of Ukraine, started in Kyiv, creating the Officers’ Committee of Ukraine.

July 28, 1986. Mikhail Gorbachev announced that six Soviet regiments would be pulled out of Afghanistan.

1993. The Minister of Defense of Ukraine and the US Defense Secretary signed in Washington a memorandum of understanding.

July 29, 1880. An Aivazovsky picture gallery was opened in Feodosiya.

1942. The Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR founded new military awards: Orders of Suvorov, Kutuzov, and Alexander Nevsky.

July 30, 1920. The Ukrainian Military Organization was created, headed by Yevhen Konovalets.

1944. The Council of People’s Commissars and CPB (u) Central Committee passed a decision On Fighting Children’s Homelessness in Ukraine.

July 31, 1924. The Polish government banned the Ukrainian language in the state-run institutions of Eastern Galicia.

1996. An interdepartmental automatic database on illegal smuggling of narcotics and psychoactive drugs (Narkobiznes) was founded in Ukraine.

August 1. Day of the Ukrainian Navy

1923. The Council of People’s Commissars and CPB (u) Central Committee passed a decision On Measures to Secure Equal Rights of the Languages and Promoting the Ukrainian Language.

1924. The Prosvita Ukrainian Union was founded in Buenos-Ayres.