This week in history

February 1: 1924. The government of Great Britain recognized the Soviet Union.

1945. The Kharkiv Tractor Plant launched the serial production of tractors.

February 2: 1868. A music school, now the Reinhold Gliere Music School, was opened in Kyiv .

1960. Ukraine’s first nuclear reactor was commissioned.

February 3: 1921. The Council of the Republic, the provisional highest official body of the Ukrainian People’s Republic, began its work in Tarnow, Poland.

1940. The Committee of Ukrainian Canadians was formed in Winnipeg.

February 4: 1648. The uprising of Zaporizhzhian Cossacks marked the beginning of the Cossack Revolution.

1945. The Yalta Conference of the heads of governments of the USSR, the US, and Great Britain began.

February 5: 1870. A strike of printing workers, the first in Western Ukraine, began in Lviv.

1977. Reprisals began against the Ukrainian Helsinki Group with the arrests of Mykola Rudenko and Oleksa Tykhy.

February 6: 1918. Russian Council of People’s Commissars of Russia passed a decree introducing Europe’s Gregorian calendar.

1958. The Ukrainian Cinematographers Union was established.

February 7: 1919. The Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR passed a decree on the formation of the workers’ and peasants’ militia (police).

1995. The Treaty on Friendship, Cooperation, and Partnership between Ukraine and the Russian Federation was initiated in Kyiv