This week in history

December 10: 1637. The Pavlo But-led 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 First All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets which proclaimed Ukraine a Soviet republic.

1991. The 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: 1918. An uprising broke out in Kyiv against the hetman’s rule. The Directory’s military units entered the city.

1941. The Nazis arrested some prominent Ukrainian intellectuals, active OUN members, in Kyiv.

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

1943. The Soviet troops liberated the Ukrainian city of Cherkasy from the Nazi German occupiers.

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.

December 16: 1917. The Council of People’s Commissars issued a Manifesto to the Ukrainian People and an Ultimatum to the Ukrainian Rada whereby Russia was to declare war on Ukraine unless the latter accepted the demands within 48 hours.

1922. The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee resolved to establish the Supreme Court of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.