This week in history

February 17. 1919. The Direktoriya approved its Declaration to the Governments of Entente and the US requesting support to fight the Bolsheviks.

1943. The Third Conference of the OUN (Bandera) leaders decisively condemned collaboration with the Nazis and supported the necessity of the USSR’s fight against Hitler’s Germany.

February 18. 1918. The Cherkasy Local History Museum was founded.

1966. The publication of the seventeen-volume first Ukrainian Soviet Encyclopedia was completed.

February 19. 1954. The Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR issued a decree transferring the Crimean oblast from the Russian to Ukrainian SSR.

1992. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved the trident as Ukraine’s Small Emblem and key element of the Great State Emblem of Ukraine.

February 20. 1907. The Second State Duma, including the Ukrainian parliamentary society, started its activity in the Russian Empire.

1919. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR approved a decree On Civil Marriage and Introduction of Registry Books.

February 21. 1919. The first issue of the newspaper, Kommunar [now Vechirny Kyiv], was published in Kyiv.

1996. During Ukrainian President Kuchma’s working visit to the US, an agreement was signed On Commercial Satellite Launches.

February 22. 1994. The official opening of a Ukrainian diplomatic representatives took place in Cuba.

1997. An order was issued by President Leonid Kuchma to create a Political Council under the President of Ukraine.

February 23. 1927. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR approved a decision On Supporting Nomadic Gypsies in Their Settling Down.

1967. By an order from the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the USSR Ukrainian writers Oleksandr Korniychuk and Pavlo Tychyna were granted the title, Hero of Socialist Labor.