This week in history

March 3 1866: A Russian public library is founded in Kyiv (today: the National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine).

1919: The Russian Socialist Federal Republic signs the Peace Treaty of Brest, which recognizes Ukraine’s national independence.

March 4 1919: The Council of People’s Commisars (Radnarkom) of the Ukrainian SSR issues a decree abolishing school fees.

1989: Kyiv hosts the Republican Founding Conference of Memorial, Ukraine’s historical-educational society.

March 5 1918: The Small Rada of the Ukrainian National Republic (UNR) ratifies the Law on the Administrative Status of Kyiv.

1992: The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine passes the bill on the Representative of the President of Ukraine.

March 6 1919: The All-Ukrainian Congress of Soviets is convened in Kyiv to adopt the Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR.

1939: A monument to Taras Shevchenko is unveiled in Kyiv to commemorate the poet’s 125th anniversary of birth.

March 7 1921: The Radnarkom of the Ukrainian SSR adopts a decree establishing a network of educational institutions called robfaks, aimed at preparing workers and peasants for higher education.

1967: The CC CPSU, the Council of Ministers of the USSR, and the All-Union Council of Soviet Trade Unions resolve to introduce a five-day work week with two days off.

March 8 1922: The All-Ukrainian Central Executive Committee (VUTsVK) resolves to confiscate church valuables and transfer them to the Hunger Relief Fund.

March 9 1930: The trial of a group of Ukrainian intellectuals accused of creating an underground counterrevolutionary organization known as the Union for the Liberation of Ukraine starts in Kyiv.