This week in history

March 30. 1921. The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee passed a decision On Renaming the Central Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka) as the All-Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission to Fight Counterrevolution and Abuse of Office.

1922. The Berezil Theater, now Kharkiv’s Shevchenko Ukrainian Drama Theater, was founded in Kyiv.

March 31. 1970. The country’s biggest pipe-rolling shop was put into operation at the Nikopol Southern Pipe Rolling Metallurgical Plant.

1993. The First Berezil Ukrainian International Theater Festival opened in Kharkiv.

April 1. 1922. The Artem Communist University was opened in Kharkiv.

1992. The Fund for Fundamental Research was created in Kyiv.

April 2. 1596. The Battle of Hostry Kamin took place near Kyiv between Severyn Nalyvaiko’s rebels and the army of Polish Crown Hetman Stefan Ziolkiowski.

1991. A treaty On Friendship and Cooperation between Ukrainian SSR and Kyrgyz Republic was signed in Bishkek.

April 3. 1919. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR approved a decree On Proclaiming Askania Nova and Yelysavetveld, Baron Pfalz-Pfein’s former property, a people’s park preserve.

1995. The first official visit to Ukraine by a Western European Union delegation began.

April 4. 1936. The Experimental Ophthalmology Research Institute was founded in Odesa.

1996. The Supreme Council of the Crimea passed the law On the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea.

April 5. 1992. By decree of Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk, the Black Sea Navy was proclaimed Ukrainian.

1995. The first certificate auction took place at the Ukrainian Certificate Auctions Center in Kyiv.