This week in history

December 9. 1918 . By a Direktoriya decision the UNR laws On the Eight Hour Work Day, Implementing Collective Contracts, and the Right for Strikes was renewed.

December 10. 1637. Pavlo But’s Cossack and peasants’ forces that rose up against the Polish nobility suffered a defeat near Borovytsia.

1963 . The Dniprodzerzhynsk Hydroelectric Plant first generated commercial electricity.

December 11. 1917. Kharkiv hosted the rump First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets, which proclaimed Ukraine a Soviet republic after being driven out of Kyiv.

1991. Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine resolved to establish diplomatic relations with the former USSR republics.

December 12. 1818. An Institute of Noble Young Ladies was inaugurated in Poltava.

1988. Kyiv saw the first test flight of the An-225 (Mriya) cargo aircraft.

December 13. 1893. Writer Mykola Khvyliovy was born.

1918. An uprising took place in Kyiv against the hetman’s rule, and the Directory entered the city.

1941. The Nazis arrested prominent Ukrainian intellectuals who were active OUN members in Kyiv.

December 14. 1918. Hetman Pavlo Skoropadsky of Ukraine abdicated power in favor of the Directory.

1943. Soviet troops took the Ukrainian city of Cherkasy from the Germans.

December 15. 1896. The first Ukrainian documentary films were made.

1932. The CP(b)U Central Committee resolved to ban the delivery to and sales of manufactured goods in the 82 districts that failed to meet bread procurement targets.