This week in history

December 28. 1920. The Union Treaty on Mutual Recognition of Sovereignty and Independence between Ukrainian and Russian Soviet 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 (propyska) in the Ukrainian SSR was made public.

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

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

January 2. 1918. An order was issued by chief otaman Symon Petliura on expulsion from Ukraine “all enemies of the Ukrainian authorities giulty 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 ore per year, was finished in Dnipropetrovsk oblast.

January 3. 1919. The government of the Ukrainian People’s Republic sent a protest note to the government of the Russian Federation on the Russian troops’ invasion into Ukraine’s territory.

1974. The Vinnytsia Polytechnic Institute was created on the basis of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.