This week in history

April 28 1887: A convent of sugar manufacturers in the south of Ukraine sets up Ukraine’s first sugar syndicate.

1958: For the first time in the history of cooperation between the USSR’s border regions an agreement on visa-free cultural exchanges is signed by Ukraine’s Lviv, Drohobych and Volyn oblasts and Poland’s Lublin and Rzeszow provinces.

April 29 1918: The Central Rada adopts the Constitution of the Ukrainian National Republic and elects Mykhailo Hrushevsky as the UNR’s first president.

1992. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes the bill on the status of the Autonomous Republic of the Crimea.

April 30 1919: The Central Executive Committee (TsVK) of Soviets of Ukraine adopts a decree setting up the Council on Workers and Peasants’ Defense of Ukraine.

1956: The Crimean State Art Museum (Vorontsov’s Palace) is founded in Alupka (Crimea).

May 1 International Workers’ Day

1933: The first issue of the weekly Ukrainske slovo comes off the presses in Paris.

May 2 1817: The Richelieu Lyceum is founded in Odesa.

1848. The Chief Ruthenian Council is founded in Galicia (Halychyna).

May 3 1873: Catherine II of Russia legitimizes serfdom in Ukraine.

1924: The noted Ukrainian political leader Mykola Mikhnovsky dies.

May 4 1890: The Ukrainian Radical Party is founded in Halychyna, initiated by Ivan Franko and Mykhailo Pavlyk. Its program is rooted in populist socialism. 1990: The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree returning to Voroshilovhrad its historical name, Luhansk.