This week in history

January 23: 1681 . Moscow, Turkey, and the Crimean Khanate concluded the Peace Treaty of Bakhchysarai, whereby Left-Bank Ukraine went to Russia, and Podillia remained under Turkey.

1930. The KP(b)U Central Committee passed a resolution on measures against the so-called kurkuls (kulaks, class enemies in the village).

January 24: 1861. The first issue of the Ukrainian-language sociopolitical and literary monthly Osnova was published in St. Petersburg.

1901. 183 students of Kyiv University were conscripted for revolutionary activities.

January 25: 1919. Ukraine’s Provisional Workers’ and Peasants’ Government passed a declaration calling on the Ukrainian SSR and Russian SFSR to unite on the basis of a socialist federation.

1931. A ten day literacy campaign was launched throughout Ukraine.

January 26: 1923. Hart (The Tempering), a union of Ukrainian proletarian writers, was founded in Kharkiv.

1993. The Ministry of Justice of Ukraine registered the Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists.

January 27: 1860. The full version of Taras Shevchenko’s Kobzar was published.

1944. The First Ukrainian Front troops launched its Rivne-Lutsk offensive.

January 28: 1920. Vinnytsia saw the foundation of the Ukrainian Drama Theater, transferred to Kyiv in 1926 and now the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater.

1992. The traditional national blue and yellow flag was approved as the official flag of Ukraine.

January 29: 1900. The Revolutionary Ukrainian Party (RUP), Eastern Ukraine’s first political party, was founded in Kharkiv.

1918. Russian Bolshevik Red Guards massacred 300 Ukrainian military cadets near Kruty, their last obstacle before occupying Kyiv.