This week in history
June 22. 1941. Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union.
1941. The OUN-B battle groups set out to Ukraine to organize Ukrainian local self-government.
June 23. 1917. The Central Rada adopted the First Universal proclaiming the sovereignty and autonomy of Ukraine.
1919. A decree On Nationalizing Kyiv City Museum and Hansen and Khanenko’s collections was passed.
June 24. 1861. The first Congress of Naturalists in the Russian Empire opened in Kyiv.
1934. Ukraine’s higher state and Party institutions were transferred from Kharkiv to Kyiv.
June 25. 1992. The Ukrainian Orthodox and Autocephalous Churches were united into a single Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kyiv Patriarchate.
1992. The Black Sea Economic Commonwealth (BSEC) was formed, uniting eleven countries, including Ukraine.
June 26. 1919. The First All-Ukrainian Congress of Communist Workers’ Youth Organizations began, creating the Ukrainian Komsomol.
1938. The first elections to the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR took place.
June 27. 1663. The so-called Black Rada began in Nizhyn, electing Ivan Briukhovetsky Hetman of the Left-Bank Ukraine.
1934. The Book Chamber of Ukrainian SSR was founded in Kharkiv.
June 28. 1991. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Association of Ukrainian Jurists.
1996. The Day of Ukraine’s Constitution. Verkhovna Rada ratified Ukraine’s Constitution on the night of June 28.
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