This week in history

January 30: 1937. The XIX Congress of Ukrainian Soviets, which approved a new Constitution of the Ukrainian SSR, ended.

1992. In Helsinki Ukraine was admitted to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.

January 31: 1920. Ukrayinski shchodenni visti (Ukrainian Daily News), the first Ukrainian Communist newspaper in the US, began publication in New York.

1943. General Friedrich Paulus signed the act of surrender of the Nazi German troops in Stalingrad.

February 1: 1945. Kharkiv’s Ordzhonikidze Tractor Plant launched the serial production of tractors.

1993. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Popular Movement of Ukraine (Rukh).

February 2: 1902. Kyiv saw a 15,000-strong demonstration of workers and students under the slogan, down with autocracy.

1944. In the course of the Rivne-Lutsk operation, First Ukrainian Front troops took Lutsk and Rivne from the Nazi Germans .

February 3: 1940 . The Committee of Ukrainians of Canada was established in Winnipeg.

1997. The Nuclear Insurance Pool of Ukraine, a voluntary organization of a number of Ukrainian nuclear risk insurers, was registered.

February 4: 1648. A Zaporozhzhian Cossack uprising signaled the Cossack Revolution led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky.

1945. The Yalta Conference of the Big Three (Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill) opened.

February 5: 1919. The UNR’s last military unit, the corps of Sichovi Strilitsi, abandoned Kyiv, which was taken by the Red Army led by Mykola Shchors and Vasyl Bozhenko.

1959. The XXI CPSU Congress, which made a conclusion about the “complete and final victory of socialism in the USSR,” closed.