This week in history

July 17: 1958. The Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR ratified a decision to close eight out of forty acting monasteries in Ukraine, including the Kyiv Pechersk Monastery of the Caves.

1992. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine.

July 18: 1950. The Organization of Ukrainian Democratic Youth was registered in New York.

1996. The mourning procession was attacked and beaten by Russian Orthodox at the funeral of Ukrainian Patriarch Volodymyr (Romaniuk).

July 19: 1678. The second siege of Chyhyryn, the Cossack capital, by a Turkish-Tartar force began, ending in the city’s capture.

1914. The First World War began with battles in the Eastern Galicia, and the Ukrainian language press was banned in Russian Ukraine.

July 20: 1920. The Ukrainian SSR Council of Peoples’ Commissars ratified a decision to create the first medical scientific and research institute.

1993. The UN Security Council found legally invalid the Russian Supreme Council declaration on the status of Sevastopol.

July 21: 1918. The Tartar community of Simferopol requested the Germans to make the Crimea an independent Tartar Khanate.

1956. The Ukrainian State Circus was opened in Kyiv.

July 22: 1819 . Ivan Kotliarevsky’s play, Natalka Poltavka, premiered.

1959. The Soviet AN-10 plane made its maiden flight from Moscow to Simferopol.

July 23: 1971. Kyiv Prince Sviatoslav and Byzantine Emperor John Tzimisces signed a peace treaty.

1990. Leonid Kravchuk was elected the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR from among several candidates.