This week in history

March 27: 1917. The first cooperative congress of Kyiv guberniya opened in Kyiv, one of the first public manifestations of the Ukrainian national liberation movement.

1944. The Council of People’s Commissars of Ukrainian SSR and the KP(b)U Central Committee ratified a decision creating the St. Sophia Church Preserve.

March 28: 1708. Russian Tsar Peter I issued an ukase on replacing the church Slavonic font with a secular one.

1944. In course of Odesa operation the troops of the III Ukrainian Front and Black Sea Fleet liberated Mykolayiv.

March 29:1966. The XXIII Congress of the CPSU started, reelecting Leonid Brezhnev as General Secretary of the Central Committee of CPSU.

1993. The First All-Ukrainian Congress of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs was held in Kyiv.

March 30: 1867. A treaty was signed in Washington on selling Alaska and Aleutian Islands by Russia to the USA for $ 7,200,000 (2 cents per acre).

1922. The Berezil theater (now Kharkiv Shevchenko Ukrainian Drama Theater) opened in Kyiv.

March 31: 1991. Myroslav Lubachivsky, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, returned to St. Yuri’s Cathedral in Lviv.

1995. By a decree of the President of Ukraine the Crimean government was subordinated directly to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine until a new Constitution of Crimea could be adopted.

April 1: 1917. The Ukrainian National Council was created in Petrograd out of uniting local Ukrainian public political organizations.

1935. A special council of the People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs of the USSR ratified a decision on the “counter-revolutionary Trotskyist organizations” case. Ninety-four persons were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment and exile in connection with that case.

April 2: 1990. The USSR Superior Council ratified the law On Strengthening Responsibility for Encroaching on the National Equality of Citizens and Forcible Violation of the Territorial Unity of the USSR.

1991. A Treaty on Friendship and Cooperation between the Ukrainian SSR and Kyrgyzstan Republic was signed in Bishkek.