This week in history

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

1966. The publication of the 17-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 Russian to Ukrainian SSR.

1992. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine approved 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 Implementing of the Registry Books.

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

1996. In the course of the President of Ukraine’s working visit to the US, an agreement was signed On Commercial Satellite Launches.

February 22: 1994. An 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 at 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 Oleksandr Korniychuk and Pavlo Tychyna were granted the title of Hero of Socialist Labor.

February 24: 1919. Ukraine and Poland signed an armistice.

1990. The Ukrainian Social and Cultural Society, uniting Ukrainian Poles, was transformed into the Ukrainian’s Union a Poland at its congress.