This week in history

November 23 1918. The Kyiv and Odesa press published the Entente declaration on intervention in Ukraine.

1993. Moscow restored its historical city coat-of-arms.

November 24 1861. A new governmental body, the Council of Ministers, was established in Russia.

1905. St. Petersburg announced provisional regulations on the press, by which it was allowed to publish periodical literature in the languages of the Russian Empire’s peoples.

November 25 1905. The first Ukrainian-language newspaper in Tsarist Russia, Kliborob (

Farmer ) was published in Lubny.

1921. A peace treaty was signed between the Ukrainian SSR and Estonia.

November 26 1944. The first congress of the delegates of the people’s committees of Transcarpathian Ukraine adopted a manifesto on the reunification of Transcarpathian Ukraine with Soviet Ukraine.

1977. The monument to Ivan Fedorov, the first book printer in Ukraine, was unveiled in Lviv.

November 27 1648. Polish King Jan II Kazimierz issued a decree guaranteeing Cossack privileges.

1918. The All-Ukrainian Academy of Sciences was established in Kyiv, with Volodymyr Vernadsky as its first president.

November 28 1921. Ukraine joined the international Red Cross convention.

1943. A conference of the heads of government of the USSR, the US and Britain began in Teheran.

November 29 1661 Lviv University, now named after Ivan Franko, was founded.

1905. An uprising of sailors began in Sevastopol onboard the cruiser Ochakov and other Black Sea Fleet warships.